Suppose your American company is No. 1 or No. 2 in your product niche. You’re a leader because you make a product better than your competitor’s product.
Business—at least as waged between competitors—is war. That observation was made in 1832 by Prussian General Carl von Clausewitz in his magnum opus, On War, based on his service in the Napoleonic Wars.
In a major new development, the International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (AIPPI) has adopted a resolution favoring patent-eligibility of computer software inventions, also known as “computer implemented inventions” or “CII.”
Seventeen years ago, I founded Beem Patent Law Firm to provide business clients with customized patents and lean, focused enforcement and defense.
“We’ve run out of big ideas,” the Wall Street Journal wails. The voice of Corporate America paints a bleak picture without offering any path forward. In this article,
There is an international crisis in software patents. The critical, unanswered question is this: When are software inventions eligible for patent?Billions in corporate assets are
It’s tempting to segment and isolate innovation, on one hand, from the drama of life, as evidenced in sports, the arts, business, and other fields of activity.
Which would you pick: The Nobel prize or a patent? If you’re like me, your instinctive reaction is to choose the Nobel.Its scarcity, prestige,
Does your company have foreign competitors? Business is global, but each patent—a weapon for market advantage—is an armament of one nation.
On April 25, 1961, Robert Noyce, then of Fairchild, was issued U.S. Patent 2,981,877 for the first silicon-based integrated circuit.
