by Louis Carbonneau | Oct 29, 2026 | IP Market Insights
Hello all, Earlier this month, I was invited to attend the annual Bridge Summit of Via Licensing Alliance in San Francisco. Via, which describes itself as the world’s largest patent pool administrator, licenses the patents inside video codecs, wireless charging...
by Louis Carbonneau | Oct 8, 2026 | IP Market Insights
Hello all, We now receive at least five inquiries a day from a new species of patent owner. Call them the overnight inventors. Somebody had an idea in the shower, typed it into their favorite AI engine, and watched the machine expand it, fill in the blanks, propose a...
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...
