Big Blue made $2 billion a year from patent royalties - representing over 95% of the company's pure profit - by following basic principles that still hold true today
A subscription model to cover the application process may well be the best way to make increased expenditure on securing portfolio-enhancing rights more palatable
In the year following India’s first-ever final judgment in a SEP case, courts are increasingly experimenting with the injunction regime as a way to protect patentees’ rights
DOAR and Techson spot opportunities in a highly fragmented market; with increasing complexity external advisers are only going to become more important
Korean conglomerate has been using patent transactions to seal patent deals, including with NPEs
Although it is home to many big ticket patent players, Canada has lagged in encouraging SMEs to maximise the value of the rights they own; new programme designed to reverse that trend
Companies staked patents and trademarks to borrow $8.5 billion in the first half of 2019. CNIPA and China’s banking regulator want that figure to increase as SMEs face a credit squeeze
Executives from Qualcomm and InterDigital explained some of the effects US-China tensions are having on their businesses in earnings calls this week. Huawei also gave an update
The transaction of OLED-related rights appears to be a very rare disposal for the third biggest US patent holder, which earlier this year did a deal through the LOT Network
Patent filings in the industry have dropped off globally, but the market is expected to rev up soon with companies like Samsung and BOE leading the way
Annual figures released by the country’s patent office also showed that it rapidly ramped up its ability to process examinations
Lawyers have requested that patents and trademarks seized from the Japanese company in March be put on the market after it failed to comply with an order to pay compensation to Korean citizens subjected to forced labour during WW2
The measure would not stop the company from enforcing patents outright, but it would severely hamper buying and selling activity
IBM and NChain are the only non-Chinese entities that feature in the nine-strong list of first tier applicants
Much greater use of foreign search reports is probably the biggest change - but there are doubts as to how effective the measures will be
