Patent Strategy

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

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

In the automotive sector – including cars, light trucks, and motorcycles – as well as the commercial aerospace industry, lightweight materials increasingly replace metal parts or structures.

Innovation is not a cool slogan on a casual Friday tee-shirt. It is a serious endeavor undertaken by companies who wish to stay ahead of the pack. Dump the buzz-words and learn how to really get your team to innovate.

In many aspects, the development, refining, and commercialization of plastic-to-liquid fuel is a classic example of the market forces being the main determining factor in adoption of a technology that is fairly well-developed.

The evolution of smart materials has allowed researchers to incorporate stimuli adaptive polymers, metals, composites and other systems in their new innovations.

Nanocellulose is making waves as a viable alternative to the more expensive high tech materials such as carbon fibers and carbon nanotubes. Its first creation in 1977 was inauspicious and likely accidental. A researcher at a pulp and paper mill asked the question “What would happen if I took some wood pulp and put it into a milk homogenizer?”