by Louis Carbonneau | May 21, 2019 | IP Market Insights
Day in, day out, we are contacted by inventors who developed some novel contraption or concept for which they received a patent. However, because they focused on one single invention, unsurprisingly, they generally end up with one single patent. It either doesn’t...
by Louis Carbonneau | Apr 9, 2019 | IP Market Insights
April 9, 2019 Maybe it was just too good to be true… After years of being on the receiving end of a patent system stacked against them, things were finally starting to improve for US inventors. Under USPTO Director Iancu’s tireless crusade to restore faith in the US...
by Louis Carbonneau | Feb 19, 2019 | IP Market Insights
To start us off and in case you missed it, last week, we reported yet another successfully brokered deal with a voluntary licensee. Second, we were recently retained by the prestigious National Research Council of Canada to advise them on their overall intellectual...
by Louis Carbonneau | Jan 18, 2019 | IP Market Insights
A belated Happy New Year to all of you! As I reflect upon this column, which has gone through various permutations over the last 7 years, I am amazed by how readership has grown organically from a dozen (including several family members 😊) to over 15,000...
by Louis Carbonneau | Nov 5, 2018 | IP Market Insights
“Remarkably, in what I believe amounts to Orwellian ‘doublespeak,’ those who’ve been advancing the patent troll narrative argue that they do so because they are actually pro-innovation. That by their highlighting, relentlessly, the dangers in the patent system, they...
by Louis Carbonneau | Sep 24, 2018 | IP Market Insights
If you’re curious as to whether the IP Market is trending up or down, you can use vector-based analysis on a series of indicators (as we did in our previous column) or you can simply follow the money. One may ask the question, “is the flow of money coming in, directly...
