Writing

Bruce Berman is author of the following articles, columns and reviews:

2021

• • • IP Watchdog, Tarantino Pulp Fiction Dispute Spotlights the Contentious Relationship between NFTS and IP Rights
    • IP Watchdog, Creator Frustration Over TikTok Reflects System Weaknesses—Both Racial and Copyright
    • IP Watchdog, Investor Group Buys Half of Prince’s Tightly Controlled but Intellectual Property-Attractive Estate
    • IP Watchdog, IBM-IPwe Partnership Hopes to Increase Patent Efficiency, Propel Transactions
    • IP Watchdog,None of the Top 20 U.S. Business Schools Require Students Learn About IP to be Awarded an MBA
    • IP Watchdog, Managing the Perils of Public IP Company Ownership

    2020

    • IP Watchdog, Biden’s Innovation and Inclusion Initiatives Will Depend Heavily on IP Rights to Succeed
    • IP Watchdog, In Memoriam: David Kline, IP Journalist and Rembrandts in the Attic Co-Author
    • IP Watchdog, Trademarks are for Sellers: Banksy Store Created for Trademark Defense Fails to Protect ‘Flower Thrower’
    • IP Watchdog,‘Cannibalistic’ Nature of Intellectual Property System Discourages Novel Responses to COVID-19 Management
    • IP Watchdog, ‘IP Consciousness’ – It Starts with Leadership”
    • IP Watchdog, “Myth-Buster or Meme Maker? Reflections Upon Reading How Innovation Works (and Why it Flourishes in Freedom)”

    2019

    • IP Watchdog, “HBO Tells Only Part of ‘Inventor’ Elizabeth Holmes’ Story,” September 2, 2019
    • IAM, “Of trade secrets, trade war and trade-offs”
    • IAM, “Mind the gap – the high cost of low credibility”
    • IAM, “IP investors – where to put your money now”
    • IAM, “Taylor Swift rewrites the rules for licensing”
    • IAM, “Failure-IP’s most underrated asset”

    2018

    • Intellectual Asset Management, “Defying the monetisation market”
    • IPPro, “IPAS 2018: why IP literacy matters”
    • Intellectual Asset Management, “Torpedo invention laid foundation for WiFi and more”
    • Intellectual Asset Management, “Failure – the most underrated IP asset”
    • IP Watchdog, “New Canadian IP strategy includes money for IP tools and literacy,” May 5, 2018
    • Intellectual Asset Management, “US innovation policy: time for a makeover”
    • IP Watchdog, “The U.S. Needs to Make IP Policy a Priority, Now,” January 3, 2018
    • Intellectual Asset Management, “Identifying the IP impact of the US tax act”
    • Intellectual Asset Management, “Minority inventors ‘lost'”

    2017

    • Intellectual Asset Management, “Short-changing intangibles – a risky business”
    • Intellectual Asset Management, “The premium on perception”
    • Intellectual Asset Management, “PIPCOs adapt to ch- changing times”
    • Intellectual Asset Management, “Report: foreign sources responsible for most US IP theft”
    • Intellectual Asset Management, “Book sheds new light on epic patent battle”
    • IP Watchdog, “‘Move Fast and Break Things’ decries IP behavior of Internet giants,” May 2, 2017
    • Intellectual Asset Management, “When theft is no crime”

    2016

    • Intellectual Asset Management, “Turning up the volume on hearables”
    • Intellectual Asset Management, “The perils of privilege”
    • Intellectual Asset Management, “Au contraire?”
    • IP Watchdog, “US Patent System may be Biggest Obstacle for Inventors,” August 14, 2016
    • Intellectual Asset Management, “Balancing act”
    • IP Watchdog, “Study: Media use of the term ‘patent troll’ negatively predisposes readers, courts,” May 8, 2016
    • Intellectual Asset Management, “Start-ups, big tech and… banks”
    • Intellectual Asset Management, “Japanese rise to top in patent sales”

    2015

    • Intellectual Asset Management, “Perception is reality for more patent holders”
    • Intellectual Asset Management, “Fathers of invention”
    • IP Watchdog, “The Case that Launched 10,000 Patent Suits“, August 24, 2015
    • World Intellectual Property Organization Magazine, “The puzzle that is patent quality”, August 2015
    • Intellectual Asset Management, “Uncertainty Rules”
    • Intellectual Asset Management, “Towards a working definition of patent quality”
    • IP Watchdog, “Software and business method patents are more than half of Google, Microsoft US patents”, January 21, 2015
    • Intellectual Asset Management, “What’s in their wallet?”
    • Intellectual Asset Management, “Higher patent quality hurdles may help some licensing companies to prevail”

    2014

    • Intellectual Asset Management, “Priceline Founder says he can Fix Totally Broken Licensing System”
    • Intellectual Asset Management, “Turning Uncertainty into Opportunity”
    • Intellectual Asset Management, “Let the Shake-out Begin”

    2013

    • Intellectual Asset Management, “Patent system’s bad actors are not confined to trolls”
    • Intellectual Asset Management, “Silicon Valley: Too big to fail, or too big not to?”
    • Intellectual Asset Management, “Public IP companies (PIPCOs) – a business model whose time has come”
      Intellectual Asset Management, “The need to lead: IBM under the microscope”

    2012

    • Intellectual Asset Management, “He’s No Robin Hood”
    • Intellectual Asset Management, “Patent Wins are Overlooked & Under Reported”
    • Intellectual Asset Management, “Late to the Race, not the Victory”
    • Intellectual Asset Management, “If It Ain’t Broke, Fix It Anyway”
    • Intellectual Asset Management, “The Imperfect Storm”
      Intellectual Asset Management, “Build, License, Buy or Steal”

    2011

    • Intellectual Asset Management, “0 to 50 in 8.5 Years”
    • Intellectual Asset Management, “Model Behaviour”
    • Intellectual Asset Management, “Cash: Patents Once and Future King”
    • Intellectual Asset Management, “An Image is Worth 10,000 Words”
    • Intellectual Asset Management, “Bloggers 1, business press 0”

    2010

    • Intellectual Asset Management, “Agent Provocateur”
    • Intellectual Asset Management, “Patentomics”
    • Intellectual Asset Management,“Measures of success”
    • Intellectual Asset Management, “Great expectations”
    • Intellectual Asset Management, “What goes around comes around”
    • Intellectual Asset Management, “A curious journey”

    2009

    • Intellectual Asset Management, “Penny wise, patent foolish”
      Intellectual Asset Management, “More disclosure, less exposure”
    • Intellectual Asset Management, “Message in a bottle”
      Intellectual Asset Management, “Don’t worry, be happy”
    • Nature Biotechnology,“Drowning in Good Ideas”, Bruce Berman’s review of The Gridlock Economy: How too much ownership wrecks markets, stops innovation and costs lives, by Michael Heller
    • Intellectual Asset Management, “Measuring and conveying IP value the HP way,” by Bruce Berman and Joe Beyers (H-P)

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