Thursday, 29 September 2016

Statistics: make of them what you will - UK patent box vs R&D reliefs

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The UK tax authority has recently released statistics for take up of the patent box in 2013-14 (the first year of the relief); on the same d...
Thursday, 22 September 2016

Self-interested bias of committee members amending IEEE’s patent policy devalues SEPs

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According to research published by J. Gregory Sidak of Criterion Economics, the process by which the Institute of Electrical and Electroni...
Friday, 9 September 2016

Free and Fair Trade in IP would be Crushed by Compulsory Chip-based SEP Licensing

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The Fair Standards Alliance  makes various demands in its “position paper.” Among these it states t hat a standard-essential patent licen...
Monday, 5 September 2016

After Dieselgate comes a multi-million Euro claim for inventor compensation

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One of the more esoteric aspects of IP finance is the need to pay extra compensation for inventors in many countries. Whereas some countrie...
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Monday, 29 August 2016

Twitter: will live sports come to the rescue?

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The saga of whether Twitter can make a commercial go of it may be reaching a critical juncture. At least, that is the view of Dan Weil of...
Friday, 26 August 2016

US Treasury Department Issues White Paper Critiquing EU State Aid Investigations of Transfer Pricing Rulings

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On August 24, 2016, the U.S. Department of Treasury issued a White Paper titled, “The European Union’s Recent State Aid Investigations of Tr...
Thursday, 18 August 2016

Revisiting the fall of Kodak: are we any smarter about the "what" and "why"?

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Four or so years ago, perhaps the most poignant story of a technology leader gone bad was the fall of Kodak. The saga played out on sever...
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Tuesday, 16 August 2016

"Patent holdup" allegations encourage SEP free-riders

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Despite many years of speculation and recently adjusted claims, there is no empirical support for the theory of “patent holdup.” Various e...
Friday, 12 August 2016

US FTC and DOJ Seek Comments to New Proposed Antitrust Guidelines for Licensing Intellectual Property

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The Federal Trade Commission and Department of Justice announced August 12, 2016, that they are seeking comments on the proposed updated ant...