by Louis Carbonneau | Jan 13, 2021 | IP Market Insights
Hello all, With 2020 FINALLY behind us, and a few blissful days of hope in 2021, I think most of us saw a light on the horizon and believed 2020 was just a bad dream, a really really bad dream. 2021 is going to be great, right?… sigh. As we all recognize by...
by Louis Carbonneau | Dec 22, 2020 | IP Market Insights
Hello all, This is our last newsletter in what is undoubtedly a extraordinary year. I do not know that any of us exited 2019 with a clue of what 2020 would hold. If you are like me, you probably can’t wait to turn the page on what historians (and Amazon of course)...
by Louis Carbonneau | Nov 23, 2020 | IP Market Insights
Hello all, I often joke with friends and colleagues that if you want to become a millionaire, you start as a billionaire and you become… a patent broker! Indeed, this profession is not for the faint of heart as the latest industry report below explains. However,...
by Louis Carbonneau | Nov 10, 2020 | IP Market Insights
Hello all, Well… What a week! At this stage, it appears to be a foregone conclusion that the next US administration will be led by Joe Biden and we can only hope this country will at long last start a collective healing process. It’s been long overdue. As in any...
by Louis Carbonneau | Oct 13, 2020 | IP Market Insights
Hello all, If you recall in our last two columns, I postulated that a couple of recent phenomena were poised to positively impact patent valuations, namely a new policy at the PTAB to not institute cases that are already underway in a parallel district court...