Hello all, In our last column (Why Bother?), I was commiserating about the poor state of the patent system worldwide (especially in the US) and explaining why, although we shouldn’t lose hope that the pendulum can swing back, it begs the question as to when patents...

Hello all, In our last two columns, we covered several mistakes made by inventors and their legal counsel when drafting or prosecuting patents, as well as the many tools that defendants have at their disposal to invalidate them or otherwise emerge unscathed from an...

Hello all, As this newsletter hits your inbox, I will be in Paris finishing a presentation to our good friends at LESI (Licensing Executive Society International). The topic is the current state of the IP market. However, all this assumes I manage to dodge the endless...