Just to let you know that the fifth installment of Warren Savage's monthly column on Semiconductor IP is already live on the site - Warren Savage On: Gumming Up the Works?
Unprecedented levels of IP reuse. Record levels of patent applications. Patent trolls... On the face of it, he believes, we are facing a potential "perfect storm" to disrupt the semiconductor industry...
He begins:
"The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers", William Shakespeare so famously wrote in Henry VI. Out of context and perhaps a bit rash, but a key topic in last week's IP Symposium revolved around the question of whether legal reform is necessary as more and more intellectual property is transacted in our global economy.
On the face of it, we are witnessing a confluence of factors that create the quintessential perfect storm to disrupt the semiconductor industry:
Read the full column, which explains why, eventually, patent reform will be driven by economic pressure by buyers and sellers on their governments rather than purely protectionist legal motives.
Previous columns
(Nov 07) Warren Savage On: Making the Case for Invented Here
(Dec 07) Warren Savage On: Swiss Cheese Solutions
(Jan 08) Warren Savage On: Collaboration Needed for Success
(Feb 08) Warren Savage On: Knowing Your No
(Apr 08) Warren Savage On: The Next Big Thing
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