by Louis Carbonneau | May 28, 2026 | IP Market Insights
Hello all, For those of us who have spent the better part of the last decade waiting for someone — anyone — to clean up the §101 mess that the Supreme Court created in Alice twelve years ago, the last six months felt like a Sorkin script. New characters. Real plot....
by Louis Carbonneau | May 14, 2026 | IP Market Insights
Hello all, In our last column, I looked at the new tension between moats and speedboats created by AI collapsing time like a car driving over a watermelon… Now I want to address another paradigm shift that is happening as we speak. For those who have been reading this...
by Louis Carbonneau | Mar 19, 2026 | IP Market Insights
Hello all, In real estate, they say the three most important things are location, location, location. Turns out the same is true in patent assertion — except the stakes are considerably higher and, unlike a house with good bones in a sketchy neighborhood, you...
by Louis Carbonneau | Mar 2, 2026 | IP Market Insights
Hello all, For those who have been reading this column for a while, you know I often distinguish between what I call “retail licensing” and “wholesale licensing.” The retail side is where individual inventors and small patent owners try — often heroically and just as...
by Louis Carbonneau | Feb 4, 2026 | IP Market Insights
Hello all and a happy Lunar New Year to our readers in Asia, A few weeks ago, I reviewed the most salient events of the past year and made some predictions for the one ahead. With NPE acquisitions surging, IPR institution rates collapsing to historic lows under new...
