by Louis Carbonneau | Jul 15, 2019 | IP Market Insights
Paul McCartney is not the only one gradually losing his voice… Sometimes, Courts also speak the loudest by what they do not say. Indeed, the US Supreme Court, in the Investpic v. SAP America case, had the opportunity – for the 44th time- to clarify...
by Louis Carbonneau | Jun 17, 2019 | IP Market Insights
The latest Gallup poll shows that only 20% of the US population approves of the work being done by our US Congress. For comparison, half of the population believes in aliens… As the saying goes, a bipartisan Congress can accomplish great things, except, it never...
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...
