Jonas Salk , inventor of the polio vaccine, “Could You Patent The Sun?”
Jonas Salk inventor of the polio vaccine. Why did he not patent his invention?
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Will the Dutch Patent Act make it to 2110?
This article will look into the relation between innovation and patents and the criticism about the role of patents
Death of a Ringtone
How Nokia’s smartphone software strategy failed and ultimately killed the brand. Much has been written about the ups and downs of the cellular / mobile phone industry over the past 25 years, and particularly the smartphone industry in more recent…
There is no Wealthy Future of being an Inventor
Last week Douglas Engelbart died, 88 years old, the American who invented the computer mouse, or “X ,Y position indicator for a display system” as it was called in his 1970 patent. Like many other famous inventors he did not…
The Future of Intellectual Property Law
Market failures, troubled access to medicine, impediments to free flow of information, copyright overextension, digital right protection, overkill and patents stifling rather than stimulating innovation are just a few of the disparaging themes around intellectual property. The main drives behind…
Year of the Patent Bull Market
2001 showed us a world economy in turmoil, financial instability in the European Union and a looming recession in most of the major EU countries, falling prices on major stock markets. How different the market for strategic IP was in…
How an invention changed the lives of Africans
It’s holiday time in Europe, so we blog much less than we usually do. Vacation also means reading, so we took a wonderful book, “Congo” by the Flemish writer David van Reybrouck. He describes what effect a famous invention had…