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Guest Column: Russell Parr

March 8, 2012 by Russell Parr 0 Comments

“Something Must Be Done About Daubert” By Russell L. Parr, CFA, ASA, CLP, RPOP[i] Expert witnesses in patent infringement cases often are the subject of intense scrutiny. Zealous opposing counsel may invoke innovative lines of questioning in the hope of casting a negative light on experts or their testimony. In the sometimes comic article below [...]

Daubert Motion, expert witness, patent litigation, regression analysis, Russell Parr

U.S.-Funded Alternative Energy Patents Fall into Foreign Hands

November 21, 2011 by Daniel Scotto 1 Comment

Solar Subterfuge By Daniel Scotto, Whitehall Financial Advisors LLC The value of energy assets has taken a giant leap backward. What used to be simply bricks and mortar has transformed into billions of dollars’ worth of Research and Development that can now be acquired for nominal cost. U.S. Companies invested vast sums in developing intellectual [...]

bankruptcy, Beacon Power Corp, Chapter 11, Chapter 7, Daniel Scotto, Department of Energy, Evergreen Solar, Solyndra, Whitehall Financial Advisors

“Patent Failure” Fails to Recognize Danger of Too Much Repair

October 26, 2011 by Guest Columnist 0 Comments

A Reply to Professors Bessen and Meurer’s Book About the Difficulty of Perfecting the Patent System By Roya Ghafele and Benjamin Gibert The publication of Patent Failure: How Judges, Bureaucrats and Lawyers Put Innovators at Risk (Princeton University Press, 2008) by James Bessen and Michael Meurer challenged the conventional wisdom on the relationship between patents [...]

Books, Guest Column, I-People, Research

American Invents Act, Benjamin Gibert, Brody Berman Associates, James Bessen, Michael Meurer, NPEs, Patent Failure, patent reform, patent system, Roya Ghafele

Guest Column: “America Invents Act Will Slow Investment”

September 16, 2011 by Irving S. Rappaport 0 Comments

Veteran IP Exec Says Patent Bill Will Have a Strongly Negative Impact on Economy & Jobs – America Invents Act Will Encourage Anything But by Irving S. Rappaport The recent passage of The Leahy-Smith America Invents Act of 2011 is a blow to innovation and U.S. innovation investment, as well as to the economy as a [...]

American Invents Act, Apple, patent reform, USPTO

Rampant IP Piracy is Hurting U.S.

June 17, 2010 by Bruce Lehman 0 Comments

China-U.S. IP Policy: Not a Two-Way Street The United States International Trade Commission (ITC) held a public hearing on June 15 and 16 that focused on China’s IP policies and their effect on the U.S. economy. The ITC, which hears Section 337 investigations involving unfair IP competition, is a relatively fast-track option to district courts. Among [...]

Bruce Lehman, China, Chinese, Clinton administration, intellectual property, international intellectual property institute, ITC, patents, piracy, the International Trade Commission, unfair competition, United States

Outside Perspective

March 5, 2010 by Russell Parr 4 Comments

Patents: Use Them or Lose Them Russell L. Parr, President of Intellectual Property Research Associates, Inc. (IPRA), is at the top tier of the IP valuation field. In addition to English, his eight books are published in Japanese, Korean, Italian, Chinese, Romanian and Russian. They are a pleasure to read for their insight and clarity. Russell has [...]