by Louis Carbonneau | Sep 17, 2026 | IP Market Insights
Hello all, Joining the LOT Network is one of those decisions a startup board makes in about four minutes, mostly because it costs nothing. Very few boards spend a fifth minute on what it does to the patents. With LOT now claiming close to a quarter of active U.S....
by Louis Carbonneau | Aug 20, 2026 | IP Market Insights
Hello all, For those of you just back from three weeks somewhere with better weather and worse wifi, last month’s column — Follow The Current — is a good prelude to this one and it will cost you five minutes. The short version: when the Patent Office made it...
by Louis Carbonneau | Jul 29, 2026 | IP Market Insights
Hello all, July is supposed to be the quiet month. Instead, inside of three weeks we got a UK Supreme Court judgment reopening the question of who gets to price a patent pool, a European injunction that millions of Disney+ subscribers noticed on their own television...
by Louis Carbonneau | Jun 25, 2026 | IP Market Insights
Hello all, Can you believe it’s summer already? The kids are out of school, Fridays quietly dissolve into the weekend, and people suddenly find themselves with a ton of time to catch up on some interesting reading — like this column. 😉 The annual...
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....
