Crowd Sourcing requires that whatever is being crowdsourced be described to excite your potential investors or to get their assistance. If you are crowdsourcing to find prior art to invalidate a patent that you are currently infringing, you have in effect let a large pool of...
Continue ReadingThe most recent sale (and probably one of the most expensive too) that I can think of is that of ARM Holdings to Softbank for US$31 billion. ARM has 4,500 granted or pending patents. ARM produces the designs (not the chips themselves) for the chips...
Continue ReadingI recently had an inventor who was very proud of his invention and had never seen anything like it before. He had a prototype that he had knocked up himself. It was a simple mechanical device, and it was exceedingly effective at solving a very...
Continue ReadingIn Australia, extensions can be generous, provided there is evidence to back up why the deadline was missed. There will need to be a very good explanation for missing more than 10 years of maintenance fees! It depends on the local patent laws. This is not...
Continue ReadingBusinesses sold with patented technology and a sales track record for products covered by those patents often sell for much higher prices than the patents alone. At first, this might seem counter-intuitive until you understand an important truth about patents: they are nothing more than a...
Continue ReadingAI engines are now starting to catch on. IBM’s Watson (the one that won at Jeopardy) and others are starting to make sense of a lot of documents that take humans a long time to process accurately in comparison. If you can find a function...
Continue ReadingIt is possible in Australia to see basic bibliographic information and get the patent application number for a provisional patent application. It is also possible to search on useful fields like inventor names, applicant and titles for provisional patent applications. Using data mined from published non-provisional...
Continue ReadingIt is possible in Australia to see basic bibliographic information and get the patent application number for a provisional patent application. It is also possible to search on useful fields like inventor names, applicant and titles for provisional patent applications. Using data mined from published non-provisional...
Continue ReadingIf you have an idea and want to set up a Startup company to develop it, you could join a Business incubator. Better still, get involved in a Seed accelerator programme that will give you a hard-hitting pressured education in your startup space. These organisations...
Continue ReadingTechnology licenses allow an organisation or person to make use of some technology that might be protected by a variety of intellectual property, including patents. It is primarily involved in the act of permitting a target organisation to do something with the permission of the...
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