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Everything Ventured, Everything Gained
July 21, 2014
On July 21, 1969, man walked on the moon. This historic anniversary is a reminder of the distance that invention can take us, because with every small step, we move closer to a giant leap.
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Patently False
July 10, 2014
We’ve often wondered: If “patent trolls” and the “explosion” of lawsuits are strangling innovation as some critics claim, then why are the most blazingly innovative industries also the ones with the most new patents and lawsuits?
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Patriotic and Peculiar Fourth of July Inventions
July 3, 2014
Here at the Intellectual Ventures headquarters in Washington state, we’re raising our stars and stripes this Independence Day to salute our nation’s innovative spirit and to recognize American inventors’ extraordinary creativity.
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Patent Reform That Makes Sense, Part II
June 20, 2014
Patent reform isn’t just happening in the halls of Congress. The court system is pushing through another series of reforms that will make it harder and riskier for so-called “trolls” to file frivolous patent-infringement lawsuits.
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Patent Reforms That Make Sense, Part I
June 19, 2014
The “patent troll” problem isn’t that companies own patents and enforce them to prevent theft of their IP, it’s companies that game the legal system by making specious claims of patent infringement or send out thousands of “demand letters” to small businesses and end users who simply purchased a product.
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