Some of these companies may not technically be startups, but I'm measuring the same data each month, so the year-to-year comparisons are valid. [read post]

Professor Lionel Bently, Director, Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law, University of Cambridge; Professor Pierre-Jean Benghozi, Chair in Innovation and Regulation in Digital Services; Director, Research in Economics and Management, Ecole polytechnique, CNRS 1, Paris; Professor Michael Blakeney, Co-Director, Queen Mary Intellectual Property Research Institute, University of London; Professor Nicholas Cook, Director, AHRC Research Centre for the History and Analysis… [read post]

Perhaps because I'm happy. [read post]

: (The Invent Blog),Brand promise and IP strategy: (IP ThinkTank),Cybersquatters have reached record numbers, says WIPO: (WIPO), (Ars Technica), (IPKat)Global - PatentsForbes interview with M Meurer (co author of ‘Patent Failure’): (Patent Prospector), (IPBiz),More on Bessen and Meurer and their book ‘Patent Failure: How Judges, Bureaucrats, and Lawyers put Innovators at Risk’: (IPBiz), (IPBiz), (IAM), (Technological Innovation and Intellectual… [read post]

Before events surrounding Nicholas Sarkozy's inauguration today come to an end, a brief interlude to bid adieu to his predecessor Jacques Chirac, President of France these last 12 years. [read post]