For a patent to have high quality, it must be thoroughly vetted and found valid. Further, patent quality predicates patent value. To be truly valuable, one must look beyond the patent’s quality to ...

10,000+ patents, spending $10M’s per year, cross-licenses, and license potential with dozens of companies, what’s the value of the portfolio to the business? Is your patent strategy valuable to your ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Determining the market potential of patents can be a complex task for entrepreneurs. The value of a patent doesn’t necessarily equal the ...

The first step in learning about patents is to define what a patent is. Patents are rights granted to the creator of a technique or product that solves a problem or creates a new method of ...

Ask anyone in manufacturing today for the first word that comes to mind when they hear the word “patents,” and almost certainly the response will be “litigation.” Litigation – not invention, not ...

Metrics are very important in society and business as they save time for everyone involved to get to certain levels of cognition and determine which widget or company is better at something. Whether ...

Over 90% of U.S. Patents Lack Strategic Value. It is estimated that over 90% of patents lack strategic value, i.e., they can be easily circumvented and do not block competitors. The main reasons for ...

OTTAWA, Ontario, Canada, December 7, 2009 – Companies both within and outside the semiconductor industry are leveraging the value of systems patents in order to generate licensing revenue and reduce ...

Funding — the lifeblood of any startup — can rise or fall on how a company is valued. But for many early stage companies, their most valuable (and often only) significant asset is their intellectual ...

WATERLOO, Ontario — Research In Motion Ltd., the maker of the BlackBerry, is in steep decline. The company, once the crown jewel of the Canadian technology industry, is now worth 1 percent of Apple's ...