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....
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 Tangible IP | Apr 8, 2026 | IP Market Insights
Hello all, There is a provocative piece making the rounds lately from Mavka Ventures, a VC firm, titled “The Moat is Dead. Long Live the Runner.” The thesis is bracingly simple: in the age of AI, competitive moats — the protective advantages that Warren Buffett spent...
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...
