September 22, 2009 archive

Patent Auctions Offer Protections to Inventors

The world can be a rough place for independent inventors. They can often find themselves in court, battling big corporations, spending piles of money on lawyers and leaving it up to judges and juries to determine the value of their hard-won patents. That could be changing. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/21/technology/21patent.html