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...

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 can't...

Hello all,  For those who have been reading this column for a while, you know I often distinguish between what I call “retail licensing” and “wholesale licensing.” The retail side is where individual inventors and small patent owners try — often heroically and just as...