
Jury Awards Apple a Giga-Buck
The headline in the New York Times brought what I had thought would be unambiguous good news or at the very least non-news to most people. A San Jose jury had found in favor of Apple in a patent infringement case against Samsung and awarded Apple one billion dollars in compensation. The suit involved infringement […]

Adobe Inks EchoSign Acquisition and Also Acquires Patent Infringement Suit Courtesy of RPost
Earlier this week, the signature — digital signature, to be more specific — world saw the greatest excitement seen since John Hancock put his infamous pen and ink to the Declaration of Independence. In a matter of days, Adobe an…

Our “patently absurd” patent system
While my book is not specifically about patents, a book that focuses on innovation and grand challenges would be remiss to not point what a “grand challenge” it would be fix our patent system. Some excerpts about patents from The New Polymath The Wall Street Journal in an editorial summarized the mess the patent system […]