The Globe and Mail has an interesting article about Nortel (link). Now that Nortel has announced that it was going to sale all its business units (link), Close studies have been done on its IP assets.
Interestingly, an analyst of JPMorgan Chase has apparently estimated recently that Nortel's wireless patents could generate royalties of $1-billion – and possibly upwards of $3-billion – over the next 15 years.
Question: How much would you offer, if that is true, to buy the patent portfolio?
Monday, July 27, 2009
Thursday, July 16, 2009
China For What?
In my work as an IP practitioner I often get the question of the pertinence of securing Intellectual Property in China. There is no straithforward response and I know that some people will disagree with me but I think that it is possible to solve the China/IP equation. This equation has many variables. It is just foolish to ignore China when we are talking about managing IP.
It is clear that China makes a lot of effort to get up to speed with IP.
Many initiatives are done on this front. Check this.
In any cases, many Chinese companies take IP seriously and are not afraid to enforce their IP rights in foreign jurisdictions. Check this interesting story about US companies being sued in the US by a Chinese company!
It is clear that China makes a lot of effort to get up to speed with IP.
Many initiatives are done on this front. Check this.
In any cases, many Chinese companies take IP seriously and are not afraid to enforce their IP rights in foreign jurisdictions. Check this interesting story about US companies being sued in the US by a Chinese company!
Thursday, July 2, 2009
Michael Jackson's IP
Believe it or not, Michael Jackson had also at least one patent in his own IP. In 1992, he filed a patent application for a "Method and means for creating anti-gravity illusion". He is a co-inventor in this patent (link).
He claimed small entity and the patent became abandonned by failure to pay a maintenance fee. The invention is at least used in Smooth criminal.
Claim 1 reads as follows:
1. A system for engaging shoes with a hitch mans to permit a person standing on a stage surface to lean forwardly beyond his or her center of gravity, comprising:
at least one shoe having a heel with a first engagement means, said first engagement means comprising a recess formed in a heel of said shoe covered with a heel slot plane located at a bottom region of said heel, said heel slot plate having a slot formed therein with a relatively wide opening at a leading edge of said heel and a narrower terminal end rearward of said leading edge, said recess being larger in size above said terminal end of said slot than is said terminal end of said slot; and
a second engagement means, detachably engageable with said first engagement means, comprising a hitch member having an enlarged head portion connected by a narrower shank portion to a means for raising and lowering said head of said hitch member above and substantially level with or below said stage surface, said head portion being larger in size than said terminal end of said slot and said shank portion being narrower than said terminal end of said slot, wherein said hitch member can be moved through apertures in said stage surface between a projecting position raised above said stage surface and a retracted position at or below the stage surface, and when said head portion of said hitch member is raised above said stage surface, said first engagement means can be detachably engaged with said projecting hitch member, thereby allowing a person wearing the shoes to lean forwardly with his or her normal center of gravity beyond a front region of said shoes, and maintain said forward lean.
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He claimed small entity and the patent became abandonned by failure to pay a maintenance fee. The invention is at least used in Smooth criminal.
Claim 1 reads as follows:
1. A system for engaging shoes with a hitch mans to permit a person standing on a stage surface to lean forwardly beyond his or her center of gravity, comprising:
at least one shoe having a heel with a first engagement means, said first engagement means comprising a recess formed in a heel of said shoe covered with a heel slot plane located at a bottom region of said heel, said heel slot plate having a slot formed therein with a relatively wide opening at a leading edge of said heel and a narrower terminal end rearward of said leading edge, said recess being larger in size above said terminal end of said slot than is said terminal end of said slot; and
a second engagement means, detachably engageable with said first engagement means, comprising a hitch member having an enlarged head portion connected by a narrower shank portion to a means for raising and lowering said head of said hitch member above and substantially level with or below said stage surface, said head portion being larger in size than said terminal end of said slot and said shank portion being narrower than said terminal end of said slot, wherein said hitch member can be moved through apertures in said stage surface between a projecting position raised above said stage surface and a retracted position at or below the stage surface, and when said head portion of said hitch member is raised above said stage surface, said first engagement means can be detachably engaged with said projecting hitch member, thereby allowing a person wearing the shoes to lean forwardly with his or her normal center of gravity beyond a front region of said shoes, and maintain said forward lean.
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