by Louis Carbonneau | Aug 28, 2018 | IP Market Insights
Now that we have firmly closed the first half of the year and are mid-way through Q3, it is a good time to look at some indicators that tend to explain current and future market trends. Whenever I search for influencers of the IP marketplace, I generally look for the...
by Louis Carbonneau | Jul 19, 2018 | IP Market Insights
The recent issuance by the USPTO of its 10 millionth patent marked a symbolic milestone. More importantly, it gave pause for many to reflect upon the fundamental question: why does one file for a patent? Those, like us, who personally interact with inventors daily...
by Louis Carbonneau | Jun 26, 2018 | IP Market Insights
Two weeks ago, the who’s who of the Intellectual Property business community descended on San Francisco to attend the annual IPBC Global 2018. It is at this conference that decision makers from various entities that comprise the IP market convene with the hopes of...
by Louis Carbonneau | Jun 5, 2018 | IP Market Insights
Undoubtedly, the biggest news in the IP community in the past few weeks was the verdict from a California jury that hammered Samsung on May 24th with a $539M award in favor of Apple for literally…cutting corners as per image below. A Samsung and Apple smartphone are...
by Louis Carbonneau | May 11, 2018 | IP Market Insights
These were the words from new USPTO director Andrei Iancu when I spoke to him last Thursday at the AIPLA Spring meeting in Seattle (Tangible IP was a sponsor). I’ll come back to this in a minute. By now however, anyone who follows the IP world (even distantly)...
by Louis Carbonneau | Apr 21, 2018 | IP Market Insights
First, the good news: last month, I commented about the trio of cases for the Federal District (which is the appeals division for all IP cases in the US) that seemed to open the first chink in the Alice armor. As a refresher, Alice is the US Supreme Court case...
