Apple’s high-profile and short-lived win against Samsung may turn into the licensing agreement that it should have been in the first place. On Friday Judge Lucy Koh halved the $1.05 billion award that a San Jose, CA jury provided Apple for Samsung’s infringement of 14 of its patents. Judge Koh also ordered the damages portion […]
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UK Inventor Burns: Torches Patent He Can’t Afford to Use
March 19, 2012 
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The High Cost of Enforcement Compels Him to Destroy His Rights Before Parliament Without the funds to enforce a patent it’s not worth the paper it’s written on. We’ve all heard that before. But never was this more dramatically illustrated as when UK inventor, Michael Wilcox, recently set fire to his patent for an innovative color […]
Read moreGuest Column: Russell Parr
March 8, 2012 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 […]
Read more Innovative IP Models Generate Cash, Provide Alternatives
August 22, 2011 3 Comments
New Patent Businesses are Diverse and Well-Capitalized A wider range of intelligent businesses are achieving higher returns on patents by extracting direct profits or providing defensive leverage. The Patent Monetization Landscape below is a graphic illustration of these businesses developed by Brody Berman Associates in conjunction with the IP Investment Group at Coller Captial, a London-based private equity firm and one the of the leading independent patent […]
Read more Six Years of Talks Fail in Ford Patent Dispute
July 19, 2011 0 Comments
Flash(back) of Genius? Ford Motor Company was sued twice in one week by businesses that say it is infringing their hands-free inventions, including the company’s popular SYNC voice-command technology If it looks like we are having a flashback to the Kearns intermittent windshield wiper debacle, popularized in the 2008 movie, Flash of Genius, you may be right. However, this time there is a contemporary twist: a […]
Read more Cook Book by Innovative IP Owner is No Recipe for Success
March 20, 2011 0 Comments
Myhrvold’s ’Modernist Cuisine’ Inspires and Confounds – Over the past ten years much has been written about Intellectual Ventures, the IP acquisition and licensing business, and its enigmatic founder, Nathan Myhrvold. A recent cover story in The New York Times Dining Section, of all places, may provide the clearest insight yet into IV and its CEO. The article, “The Conjurer,” (sic) looks at Modernist Cuisine, $625 ($467.62 on […]
Read moreNew Wealth of Nations is Focus of Int’l IP Gathering
February 22, 2011 0 Comments
550+ to Participate in 2011 CIP Forum – The New Wealth of Nations is the focus of a gathering to be hosted May 29-June by the Center for Intellectual Property Studies in Sweden. It’s the tenth anniversary of the bi-annual event. If past experience is any indication, CIP Forum will be one of the more outstanding IP gatherings to be held in Europe […]
Read more New Patent Litigation Survey Confirms NPE Growth
January 18, 2011 1 Comment
What’s Fueling Higher Awards? Damages awards for NPEs (non-practicing patent owning entities) are on average triple those of practicing entities, according to handy 2010 Patent Litigation Study from PwC, recently made available. For some reason the report does not acknowledge that the higher quality and increased value of patents asserted by NPEs may be influencing damages […]
Read morePatent Troll Defense
April 21, 2010 2 Comments
Insurer Must Provide Defense Coverage To Hyundai in “Troll” Dispute In a story that received scant media coverage, an appeals court has decided that two insurance companies must provide defense coverage to Hyundai against patent infringement claims by a non-practicing entity (NPE), also known as a patent troll, because the company’s policy covers advertising injury. […]
Read morePatent Litigation Trends
February 15, 2010 1 Comment
NPE Impact is Focus of PwC Study A very useful study was recently released from PwC. “A Closer Look –Patent litigation trends and the increasing impact of nonpracticing entities” is an in-depth look at patent litigation in the U.S. The research was completed in August but distributed last week. PwC includes a wealth of litigation […]
Read moreCEO Guide
February 13, 2010 1 Comment
BW (yawn… ) on Patent Trolls Business Week recently ran a special report under the heading “CEO Guide to Patent Trolls.” Much of the five-article report included the same anti-NPE rhetoric we have heard in the past. This time those that weigh in include a VC and “defensive” patent aggregator RPX. Even Ron Epstein’s “Debunking […]
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About Bruce Berman
As a consultant and editor focused on intellectual property rights, I am aware of the latest developments in strategy and finance, and close to the most influential people.
Since 1988 I have been working with patent holders, managers, lawyers and investors to frame and properly convey their assets, performance,disputes and transactions.
My four books, including best-seller FROM IDEAS TO ASSETS, deal with IP rights as business assets. THE INTANGIBLE INVESTOR, the column I have written for IAM since 2003, looks at ways IP can generate return on investment. For my complete bio visit www.brodyberman.com.
