New research published by the University of Surrey in Boston College Law Review is calling for inventions by computers to be legally granted patents. New research published by the University... Read more
When Universities Sell Patents to Trolls, Publicly Funded Research Is Compromised There’s been a lot of talk lately about the state of publicly funded research. Many, including EFF, have lon... Read more
What’s likely to be the “next big thing?” What might be the most fertile areas for innovation? Where should countries and companies invest their limited research funds? What technology areas... Read more
There were three great scientific horse races in the last century. The first two, the race to the moon and the race to split the atom have been widely reported. The race to sequence the huma... Read more
Twitter is thinking differently about this We’ve talked repeatedly in the past about how even if a company got patents for solely defensive reasons, down the road, those patents can en... Read more
Lee Bok-hui used to wonder what happened to all the leftover stones she saw lying around construction sites. Now she knows exactly where a percentage of those leftovers go — into an ec... Read more
The cost of patents is going up, and that is not a good thing. After all, Google is paying $12.5 billion for Motorola largely for its huge mobile patent portfolio. In July, an anti-Google co... Read more
The patent system in both Europe and the United States is the biggest threat to innovation in the world today At the risk of stating the obvious, I’ll say this right up front: The patent sys... Read more
DWG pointed us to what appears to be Mark Lemley’s latest (and I’ll caveat that with the point that Lemley is crazy prolific, so he may have written something else more recently)... Read more
ON Monday the Supreme Court will consider whether to fundamentally alter the way American patent law is litigated. Specifically, in the context of an otherwise unremarkable patent dispute, t... Read more
Techdirt.com is a fascinating blog that covers the current wars being fought around copyright, intellectual property, patents and other areas that may impede or help the free flow of informa... Read more
There have been a bunch of companies trying to "trade" in patents or patent auctions, and all they've done is help make innovation harder Read more
Over the years, we've pointed to tons of research, especially historical research, that shows that near total lack of evidence that patents have any causal relationship to increased innovati... Read more
Techdirt.com is a fascinating blog that covers the current wars being fought around copyright, intellectual property, patents and other areas that may impede or help the free flow of informa... Read more
