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The Patent Renewals Challenge: Balancing Risk and Cost
As economic recession forces companies to cut costs and grow revenue, there is an opportunity to reduce IP overhead without impacting risk. By intelligently abandoning non-essential patents and trademarks and increasing revenue from IP sales, businesses can strengthen their balance sheets and increase competitiveness. The complex process of pruning a patent portfolio and determining what to renew and what to abandon is equal parts art and science. However, successful players in the IP space have learned that their IAM decisions can be made more precise and better grounded in business objectives. Many companies are successfully incorporating systems to help organize their patent portfolios and manage the risks inherent in them.
Economic recessions force businesses to cut costs and identify new and efficient sources of revenue. Yet many companies will pass up millions of dollars of low-hanging fruit annually in the form of reduced patent annuities and increased revenue from sales of unused patents. Reinforcing this, the USPTO 2008 Annual Report states that “the renewal rates for (patent) maintenance fees have been
increasing modestly over the last four years and the trend indicates that this growth pattern will continue.”
Bankruptcy Sales: Finding a Diamond In the Rough
There is no efficient market for the sale of bankruptcy assets. Inefficient markets yield a transactional drag, potentially dampening the ability of debtors and trustees to maximize value for creditors. This article identifies ways in which investors may more easily discover bankruptcy asset sales.
Judge Rules Shaquille O'Neal Will Face Securities Lawsuit for Promotion, Sale of NFTs
A federal district court in Miami, FL, has ruled that former National Basketball Association star Shaquille O'Neal will have to face a lawsuit over his promotion of unregistered securities in the form of cryptocurrency tokens and that he was a "seller" of these unregistered securities.
Why So Many Great Lawyers Stink at Business Development and What Law Firms Are Doing About It
Why is it that those who are best skilled at advocating for others are ill-equipped at advocating for their own skills and what to do about it?
Blockchain Domains: New Developments for Brand Owners
Blockchain domain names offer decentralized alternatives to traditional DNS-based domain names, promising enhanced security, privacy and censorship resistance. However, these benefits come with significant challenges, particularly for brand owners seeking to protect their trademarks in these new digital spaces.
Coverage Issues Stemming from Dry Cleaner Contamination Suits
In recent years, there has been a growing number of dry cleaners claiming to be "organic," "green," or "eco-friendly." While that may be true with respect to some, many dry cleaners continue to use a cleaning method involving the use of a solvent called perchloroethylene, commonly known as perc. And, there seems to be an increasing number of lawsuits stemming from environmental problems associated with historic dry cleaning operations utilizing this chemical.