US Congress passed the Leahy-Smith America’s Invent Act of 2011 on September 2011.  These Act represents the most extensive review of the US Patent System in over 20 years.  There are clear effects on entrepreneurs and small companies in several favorable and unfavorable ways.

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uBricks Research is a Microengineering and Management Consulting firm offering μBricks® Consulting Services, a suite of engineering and advisory services for the microsystems, microelectronics, sensors and device packaging communities. We support all aspects of technology and product development using  a centrally managed global innovation network of over 3000 scientists, engineers and management professionals […]

We offer the services of a large network of strategy, M&A and product development experts.

These consultants are distributed in over 12 countries, across most research initiatives and have hands-on management experience in industries including semiconductor equipment, microelectronics fabrication, sensors and displays, and robotics and automation.

We provide up-to-date analysis of public information sources and competitive assessments to semiconductor and microsystems companies, investment organizations and government agencies worldwide.  We focus mainly in R&D activities in the Semiconductor and Microsystems technology spaces with services that include  Patent Activity Monitoring, R&D  Risk Analysis, and R&D Joint Ventures / Alliances Assessments.

We have over […]

Is mass market manufacturing dead in developed countries where labor and services cost more, and where costs or regulations are higher?  Accumulating empirical evidence suggests that this is the case, at least if we do not consider the many avenues that innovation provides us.

uBricks Research and others now believe it is possible to successfully compete […]