Critical Alerts

Learn why monitoring who cites your patents protects your intellectual property, reveals new opportunities, and strengthens your patent strategy.

This article explores AI and the some of the potential applications, implications and costs for unprepared industry.

It has been two decades since scientists learned to mimic the ability of the gecko to adhere to any surface reversibly. The critical question is whether this biomimetic technology has found commercial application.

Looking back at historic economic downturns, companies who commit to innovating have won in the long run.

A box or carton or even an aluminum can does not represent a subtle change in protective packaging but rather a potential disruptive shift as the wine industry looks to improve its environmental footprint.

Clients trying to understand how their business is evolving can benefit from taking a step back to look at the current state of intellectual property. A patent landscape analysis helps Nerac clients quickly assess their position within a technology area in terms of their business objectives. The insights can help support critical decisions on new product introduction, go-to-market strategy and market positioning, structural cost adjustments, and more.

Threats to your business: What keeps you up at night?

The systematic and periodic collection, analysis, and synthesis of data related to market actors’ actions, reactions, new product/technology developments, IP filings, and major business news, as well as significant material financial changes and changes in strategic direction.

Viewed through the eyes of an innovation manager, quantum dot technology could either represent the best thing since sliced bread or your darkest nightmare. Quantum dots are dependent on the size of the nanoparticle and not the chemical nature of the material and enable applications ranging from large screen televisions (TVs) to packaging to medical diagnosis and imaging. Quantum dots have the potential to disrupt the status quo across virtually all industrial sectors. Your product may be obsolete and you just don’t know it yet.