Healing Innovation

The America Invents Act impacts Medtech

 At least as early as the 1990s there were growing pressures to correct perceived problems in the patent system of the United States. The problems were said to relate to patent quality and the increase in patent litigation, its costs and its consequ

Trusting in the Value of Medtech Innovation

For many of us that work in the medical device area, the constant pursuit of the next product innovation is as natural as breathing air.  The U.S. economic malaise and the rapidly escalating cost of healthcare, however, have some pundits suggesting

What do you really need?

In this blog, I have made a big deal about the difference between needs and ideas.  The reality is that for a need to be more than pointing out the obvious, it has to provide sufficient definition or a problem statement.  Or, as the very successful