Ernesto Barrera

Today the first Photonic Integrated Circuit Conference came to a close , which took place simultaneously with the 6th edition of the compound semiconductor industry conference in a rainy Brussels. PhotonTransfer would like to present some important take-aways from the event. The exponential increase in web traffic and cloud applications […]

The 1st Photonic Integrated Circuit International conference:

04/03/2016 in Industry tagged photonic integrated circuit / pic / Silicon Photonics by Ernesto Barrera

Graphene

18/02/2016 in Technology Transfer / Technology Watch tagged Graphene advantages / Graphene applications / Graphene properties / Photonics applications by Ernesto Barrera

International Year of light 2015

19/11/2015 in Technology Transfer tagged International Year of Light / Photonics / PhotonTransfer by Ernesto Barrera

New Incentive Prize Competition Leverages Open Innovation and Light-Based Technologies Trends to Transform Business — XPHOTON, the Open Innovation Challenge — a new type of economic engine designed to bring about radical business, technological and social innovation to benefit local and global communities using light-based technologies, inspire new industries and […]

Xphoton Challenge

29/03/2015 in Open Innovation by Ernesto Barrera

According to Robin Feldman, of the University of California-Hastings Law School, Mark Lemley, of Stanford Law School, in their paper “Does Patent Licensing Mean Innovation?” , it seems, based on their examples, that the answer to that question is apparently negative. Vivek Wadhwa in his paper for the Washington Post, supports his collegue study. […]

Polemic about “Does Patent Licensing Mean Innovation?”

14/03/2015 in Photonics Patents tagged Mark Lemley / Patent licensing / PhotonTransfer / Robin Feldman by Ernesto Barrera

Xphoton Open Innovation Challenge, where companies meet the best minds in Photonics to bridge the gap between science and market The United Nations (UN) General Assembly 68th Session has proclaimed 2015 as the International Year of Light and Light-based Technologies (IYL 2015 light2015.org), in order to gain awareness of how […]

Xphoton Open Innovation Challenge launches on the international year of ...

28/02/2015 in Technology Transfer by Ernesto Barrera

Strategy in case of potential infringement of a patent: – purchase or in-license the blocking patent; – cross licensing: exchanging license to use certain patents owned by two institutions; – inventing around an existing patent; this is always possible and generally it does not represent an IPR infringement. – patent […]

About Patents: Freedom to Operate

12/07/2014 in Uncategorized by Ernesto Barrera

The Benefits of Patenting for a research institution have to be understood in the order of invigorating further research and partnership. A patent granted is a right to exclude other from a market. It is not a right to commercialize. Limits of patents are territorial patent protection, limited duration, limited […]