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HBS Working Knowledge
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Sara Grant |
Caves, Clusters, and Weak Ties: The Six Degrees World of Inventors Your company's scientists and investors can be antennas that bring great ideas into your company. The key, says Harvard professor Lee Fleming, is understanding small-world networks. |
HBS Working Knowledge
November 5, 2007
Sarah Jane Gilbert |
The Changing Face of American Innovation Chinese and Indian scientists and engineers have made a large contribution to U.S. technology over the last 30 years, according to research by Harvard professor William R. Kerr. But that trend may be ebbing, with potentially harmful effects on American innovation. |
Popular Mechanics
December 9, 2009
Erik Sofge |
Inventors Slam Patent Reform Effort Some of America's most prolific inventors say the changes in patent law could seriously impair the culture of innovation that has long driven prosperity in this country. |
Pharmaceutical Executive
February 1, 2012
Schaeffer & Dahlberg |
Money for Nothing, Patents for Free? State tech transfer laws giving universities automatic ownership of employees' inventions represent a threat to pharma partnerships. |
Fast Company
January 9, 2012
Rachel Z. Arndt |
Patents By The Numbers: Average Wait Time Is Going Down, But Trolls Still Cost Us $80 Billion A Year Starting last fall and stretching through mid-2013, the U.S. has been overhauling the patent-approval process for the first time since 1952. |
Entrepreneur
May 2003
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Losing the Race Is the Patent Office's slowness putting U.S. innovation at risk? |
IEEE Spectrum
March 2007
Steven Rubin |
Hooray for the Patent Troll! Patent owners who are often accused of being patent trolls are acting within the law. There is nothing wrong either with them or the law. Far from stifling innovation, trolls foster it. By creating market liquidity, "patent trolls" provide a valuable service to inventors. |
InternetNews
July 25, 2005
Susan Kuchinskas |
Google Strikes Back in Executive Tug-of-War Google filed a countersuit against Microsoft, claiming the non-compete clause in contracts signed by Redmond executives won't stand up under California laws. The suit is part of an ongoing struggle over Dr. Kai-Fu Lee. |
InternetNews
March 23, 2005
Susan Kuchinskas |
IP Pros Fight to Save Patent Library Patent professionals and entrepreneurs are fighting to save the Sunnyvale Center for Innovation, Invention & Ideas, a patent library they say is an invaluable tool. |
Information Today
September 15, 2011
George H. Pike |
Congress Enacts Patent Reform Legislation In what is being described as the most substantial overhaul of U.S. patent law in nearly 60 years, Congress passed the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act, patent reform legislation that has been years in the making. |
Entrepreneur
March 2008
Nichole L. Torres |
Tool Time You may have a brilliant invention, but it doesn't mean anything if you can't get it off the ground. These companies can help. |
Entrepreneur
December 2004
Don Debelak |
Taking License For inventors who don't have the time or the money to introduce their product on their own, entering into a licensing agreement is an obvious solution. But how do you choose the right company to license your product? |
InternetNews
August 5, 2005
Susan Kuchinskas |
Microsoft/Google Drama Glamorous, Not Unexpected Non-compete litigation between Google and Microsoft over Kai-Fu Lee is a common ploy, experts say. |
Chemistry World
July 10, 2013
Darren Smyth |
How to invent and protect your invention Even as an account of US patent law, this book, by Kennedy et al., has little to commend it. It is difficult to understand in many places, the selection of topics for coverage is peculiar, and is downright wrong in many details. |
On Wall Street
September 1, 2012
Alan J. Foxman |
Looking at Illinois Court's Ruling on Non-Compete Clause Our legal analyst explores one state s new rules on employment agreements. |
InternetNews
September 7, 2007
Caron Carlson |
House Passes Major Patent Reform The U.S. House approved legislation today that seeks to overhaul and modernize over 55 years of patent law and address a patent-award system that bi-partisan groups have long argued is broken. |
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Lee Suit a Turf War Location plays a big part in the dispute between Microsoft and Google over the hiring of Kai-Fu-Lee. |
InternetNews
April 1, 2008
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Is Patent Reform Fight Almost Over? Many in the tech industry support sweeping patent reform effort. |
Registered Rep.
October 30, 2008
Churchill & French |
Merrill Lynch Says Broker Protocol Still Intact, Clarification Forthcoming Merrill Lynch financial advisors put off by non-compete language in the retention package they received last week -- who must now decide whether to sign it -- are getting assurances from Merrill that it's not as bad as they think. |
Inc.
June 6, 2002
Jennifer A. Redmond |
Directory of Inventors Groups Are you an inventor looking for advice or resources? This directory lists inventors groups across the country, organized by state. |
InternetNews
September 8, 2005 |
Arguments End in Microsoft vs. Google The judge hearing preliminary arguments in Microsoft versus Google said he'd rule on Tuesday, September 13. |
CIO
January 1, 2003
Christopher Koch |
Patently Stupid? It's not clear at the start of 2003 whether the software patent frenzy will cause innovation to flower or be trampled. |
IEEE Spectrum
May 2007
Audia & Goncalo |
Does Success Spoil Inventors? The experience of success may stifle creativity by leading people to focus narrowly on existing solutions rather than by exploring new ones. |
| Industrial Physicist |
Letters Inside the brain... High-tech success... Fan vibrations... etc. |
Inc.
March 2004
Lora Kolodny |
Bad Patent Reform Pending patent reform could leave entrepreneurs unprotected. |
Entrepreneur
April 2004
Don Debelak |
Sky's the Limit Think your product has limited appeal? It may have more potential than you know. |
Entrepreneur
July 2005
Don Debelak |
Tool Time How one entrepreneur built a better screwdriver--and used smart networking to get it into Sears stores nationwide. |
The Motley Fool
May 17, 2006
Rich Duprey |
A Patently Offensive Ruling? eBay vs. MercExchange was the wrong ruling in the right case. Rather than balancing the power between "patent trolls" and innovation, this ruling could end up tipping the scales against small-time inventors who lack the resources to challenge corporations that usurp a patent's advancements. |
