Posted by ipeg on July 28th, 2012
Apple this week missed earnings expectations as it faces stiffening smartphone competition from the likes of Samsung without its own blockbuster new hardware to satisfy eager consumers. Apple missed lofty analyst expectations for the fiscal quarter ending June 30. The rare miss comes at a time when Apple’s competitors are finally making inroads in the high-end smartphone market, giving consumers more products to choose from and forcing Apple to defend its once-insurmountable lead.
Even though Apple still makes far more money than any...
Posted by ipeg on February 14th, 2010
Recently we blogged about Patent Plutonomies. The expression was coined following Ajay Kapur, (former) global strategist at Citigroup, who described countries which are defined by massive income and wealth inequality as “Plutonomies”. Translated into IPR, especially to the patent system, “Patent Plutonomy” refers to an IP world where only a few know how to play the system and to generate reasonable revenues, while the majority is – or just feels – overcharged. A recent study by PriceWaterhouseCoopers shows that NPEs seem to...
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