It appears that patents and baseball players share similar odds of success and the same value curve. Likelihood of Success  The chances of a high school baseball player making it to Major League Baseball are roughly equivalent to an inventor deriving commercial...

Solo performing rock starts are much more likely to die prematurely than rock stars that are members of a band. The reason is solo performers are more likely to engage in destructive behavior (e.g. drug and alcohol abuse) than members of a band. According to research...

Let’s say that we are reviewing a patent with very narrow and very poorly constructed claims that read on something that doesn’t seem to have any commercialization potential. Further, the prosecution history was very contentious and resulted in the patentee making...