Recent court rulings and legislative efforts have prompted intellectual property companies not only to set more realistic expectations in licensing IP assets, but also to begin broadening their business models beyond traditional licensing. Among the most promising of...
This article is by David Pridham and Brad Sheafe, the chief executive officer and chief intellectual property officer, respectively, of the patent advisory and optimization firm Dominion Harbor Group. The patent system has gotten a pretty poor reputation of late,...
We’ve all read the news reports of patent trolls who threaten startups with bogus patent claims (without any intention of filing a patent infringement action) in order to extort settlements from those unable to pay the costs of standing up to them in court. But we...
