Comments for Ideanomics

Comment on The IP ink blot test. What do you see? by Chris Baxter

Chris Baxter — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 02:00:47 +0000

I’ve worked at large patent attorney firms, in a corporate IP position and now have a small firm. Interestingly,in my corporate position we had a multi-functional IP team meaning we had a patent attorney, the engineers and a marketing representative or business manager in each IP development meeting. This provided a much needed level of product focus to our meetings and I would recommend multi-funtional IP meetings to all businesses.

Comment on Why Business Schools Should Be Teaching IP Management by Innovators: Make Sure Your Company Owns the Fruits of Your Open Innovation Projects – IP Asset Maximizer Blog

Mon, 27 Jul 2009 23:20:20 +0000

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Comment on Are IP Values Collapsing With The Recession? by Sam

Sam — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 21:17:58 +0000

This is very interesting; most would assume a tendency for patent growth to follow the economic curve and not to precede it. What about the ip litigation cases and how they change as patents become more profitable during a recession? I think there is a lot of useful information along those lines as well.

Comment on Book Review: The Innovator’s Guide To Growth by Idea Sandbox Broken Bulbs Kicks Off “Innovator’s Guide to Growth” Virtual Book Tour

Mon, 12 Jan 2009 13:25:53 +0000

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Comment on Book Review: The Innovator’s Guide To Growth by Idea Sandbox “Innovator’s Guide to Growth” Virtual Book Tour Concludes

Mon, 12 Jan 2009 13:23:33 +0000

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Comment on Are Business Method Patents Finally On Their Way Out? by Jackie Hutter, IP Strategist

Jackie Hutter, IP Strategist — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 13:05:09 +0000

As a high level patent practictioner for many years, I never liked business method patents and thought they were a big waste of money. At the basic level, these are difficult to police for infringement, and I typically counseled that there were better things on which to spend a limited patent legal budget. The only business method patents I recommended over the years were for defensive purposes. The danger for my clients, of course, was that one could obtain a nasty letter from an owner of a business method patent, but this is always a possibility. Personally, I am pleased that the Federal Circuit has ruled this way. But, I wouldn’t put a “stake in the heart” of business method patents–this one is certainly going to the Supreme Court for final resolution.

Comment on Book Review: The Innovator’s Guide To Growth by “Innovator’s Guide to Growth” Virtual Book Tour Concludes

“Innovator’s Guide to Growth” Virtual Book Tour Concludes — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 15:14:26 +0000

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Comment on Book Review: The Innovator’s Guide To Growth by Broken Bulbs Kicks Off “Innovator’s Guide to Growth” Virtual Book Tour

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 14:15:49 +0000

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Comment on Creativity is the Speed Limit of Innovation by Bryan Fisher

Bryan Fisher — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 07:59:08 +0000

Is this the talk you were referring to?

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity.html

It’s a great talk. I agree that being creative is often more important than being smart, simply because it isn’t nearly as common. I wish formal education focused more on how to ask good questions instead of just how to find the right answer.

As pointed out, the fear of being wrong that gets ingrained in us stifles creativity and risk-taking. Google counteracts this phenomenon in the workforce with their “20% time” policy, under which employees work on experimental, pet projects one day a week. Without strict return on investment expectations, employees are free to explore new ideas. Most of the projects have probably failed, but several have become profitable, the most notable perhaps is the AdSense program.

Comment on Google’s Chrome is a Disruptive Threat by Jackie Hutter, IP Strategist

Jackie Hutter, IP Strategist — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 00:38:15 +0000

Greg, you make the comment that “Google doesn’t want to compete in the browser market”. While this may be true, before betting any money on this assertion, I would want to run some patent analytics to see whether Google is seeking to obtain patent rights in the area of browser technology. Notably, even “incremental improvements” are patentable, and at the core, Chrome may actually have more innovation than obvious from the surface. Google is a very robust patent filer, and one can often gain insight into the future business plans of companies like Google using filed patent information.

Also, while I see and accept your point about trying to drive the browser market along with Chrome, I had to chuckle at the reaction to this picture someone from Microsoft would have to this thought.

Lastly, it’s an interesting concept for a third party entity to try to drive product development at another company from the outside. Do you have an example of a situation where something like this was successfully accomplished by an entity other than the government? (Governments accomplish this, for example, by funding basic reseach that can be implemented in commercial products.) And, if Google is really trying to drive Microsoft’s actions from the outside, doesn’t that make it so powerful as to be “scary”. (Thankfully, they “do no evil”.)