Americas
01 December 2008
Managing Intellectual Property
• NASA patent sold at auction A NASA patent portfolio sold for $50,000 at the Ocean Tomo Fall 2008 Auction in Chicago in October, marking the first time the US federal government has taken part in a patent auction. NASA's lot 56, the Hilbert-Huang transform and its applications, consisted of 10 US patents and one domestic application for a method and system for analysing signals. The highest lot sold for more than $1.8 million, with the entire auction bringing in $12.8 million. Ocean Tomo auctions grossed a total of $45.1 million in 2008, an increase of 45% from 2007.
• FTC appeals Rambus decision to Supreme Court The Federal Trade Commission has asked the Supreme Court to hear an appeal of an April ruling that found technology developer Rambus had not engaged in anticompetitive behaviour. In 2006, the FTC found Rambus guilty of unlawfully monopolising...
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