Software strategies and more…

Over the past couple months I have been immersed in the world of intellectual property.

My new role as the SVP of Marketing and Products at UBM TechInsights has trust me into an unassumingly hot area right now as companies of all sizes, geographies and increasingly industries look at managing and fortifying stakeholder value and risk management through their patent holdings. As such, I have been following a lot of the current news and synthesizing information from many sources.As my first blog in my new role, I thought I’d share some of the resources, I’ve found useful.

Some readings on first-to-file versus first-to-invent and patent reform.

• First to File , Wikipedia
• U.S. inventors on their markets for race to patent office, New Scientist
• Novelty and disclosure in patent law, Rand Journal
• The end of the first-to-invent rule: A concise history of its origin, IDEA – The Intellectual Property Law Review
• From first-to-invent to first-to-file, the Canadian experience, American Intellectual Property Law Association
• U.S. Senate approves patent reform, Reuters
  

Some additional (recent) articles and news:

Google purchases IBM inventions as patent arms race looms

http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/11/07/29/google_purchases_ibm_inventions_as_patent_arms_race_looms.html

Patents, Innovation, Mobile Tech, and Why It’s All a Big Mess

http://www.gottabemobile.com/2011/07/19/patents-innovation-mobile-tech-and-why-its-all-a-big-mess/

Google’s Schmidt: Competitors are responding with lawsuits rather than innovation

http://www.androidapps.com/finance/articles/8804-googles-schmidt-competitors-are-responding-with-lawsuits-rather-than-innovation

Are the patent wars stifling innovation?

http://asia.cnet.com/are-the-patent-wars-stifling-innovation-62210120.htm

Patent Failure: Has the Sun Set on the Day of the Patent?

http://www.experts-exchange.com/blogs/EE-Tech-News/B_5412-Patent-Failure-Has-the-Sun-Set-on-the-Day-of-the-Patent.html

Is U.S. innovation experiencing death by patent?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/innovations/post/is-us-innovation-experiencing-death-by-patent/2011/07/26/gIQANnAubI_blog.html

How The Patent War, A Multibillion Dollar Waste, Could End With A Stroke Of A Pen

http://www.businessinsider.com/patent-war-2011-7

Smartphone Innovation Leads To Rise In Patent Disputes

http://www.financierworldwide.com/article.php?id=8389

When Patents Attack

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2011/07/26/138576167/when-patents-attack

This Is Where the Patent Trolls Live

http://gizmodo.com/5824912/who-is-really-snuffing-out-american-innovation

Penicillin: the antidote to patent wars

http://mobilebusinessbriefing.com/article/penicillin-the-antidote-to-patent-wars

Chinese Innovation Is a Paper Tiger

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111904800304576472034085730262.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

China as an Innovation Center? Not So Fast

http://chinadigitaltimes.net/2011/07/china-as-an-innovation-center-not-so-fast/

Look for more patent and IP information from me in the future.