Innovation – Wake-Up Call
There are number of indications that the U.S. is losing its technological edge. In the second quarter of 2008, there were no public offerings of Silicon Valley venture capital-backed companies, a...
View ArticleWant to Get More for Your Patent Dollar? Fire Your Patent Review Committee
Most companies that generate enough patents to justify an in-house patent counsel have a Patent Review Committee. The Patent Review Committee determines if an invention described in an “Invention...
View ArticleThe Decline and Fall of the American Entrepreneur: How Little Known Laws and...
This post is the Introduction to my book, which should be available on Amazon.com in December of 2009. This book started as a project based on my observations. I deal with technology start-up...
View ArticleHow to Build a Patent Portfolio that Dominates Your Marketplace
The first step in build a market dominating patent portfolio is to undertake a survey of the patent landscape in your marketplace. For more information on how to perform a prior art survey please see...
View ArticleWhy is the Venture Capital Model Dying?
Some people suggest that Venture Capital is just in a normal cyclical downturn. Not a single venture backed company went public in second quarter of 2008. This has not happen since 1978. This was...
View ArticleHot Property
Hot Property by Pat Choate This excellent book by Pat Choate will both frighten and upset you. For instance, Dr. Choate relates the shocking tale of a woman from Alabama who received a counterfeit...
View ArticleAccounting Inhibits R&D
Accounting rules for R&D result in companies and nations under investing in research and development. Since increases in real per capita income are the result of increases in our level of...
View ArticleNon-Obviousness: A Case Study in Judicial Activism
The genesis of the non-obviousness standard (Inventive Step in Europe) was the Supreme Court’s decision in Hotchkiss v. Greenwood, 52 U.S. (11 How.) 248 (1851). This case first articulated the idea...
View ArticleCould Apple Get Funded Today?
This intriguing question and its implications for US economic policy are tackled in the groundbreaking book Great Again, by Henry R. Nothhaft with David Kline. They answer the above query with a...
View ArticleNothhaft Interviews: Startups Create All Jobs
Henry R. Nothhaft author of the book Great Again was interviewed on the Dylan Ratigan show on MSNBC and the Harvard Business Review blog radio. The Dylan Ratigan show focused on job creation and how...
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