Mr. Gibbs' extensive writings have covered intellectual property management, corporate and law firm best practices, patent public policy, statistical patent measurement systems, and technology.

Special Reports

• Automaker Patent Assets Intelligence Report, delivered to President Obama's Task Force on Autos, US Secretary of Commerce, and US Treasury Secretary (March 26, '09)

White Papers

• Statistical Analysis and Measurements of Patent Quality Indicators Within Semantically Defined Homogeneous Control Groups (Presented at Columbia University, 2008. Contact the author)
• Practical Application of Statistical Patent Quality Analysis of Patent Portfolios for Decision Support in Intellectual Property Management
• The Practical Application of Statistical Quality Scoring to Effective Patent Management
• Heuristic Boolean Patent Search Comparative Patent Search Quality / Cost Evaluation “SuperBoolean” vs. Legacy Boolean Search Engine
• Application of Multiple Known Determinants to Evaluate Legal, Commercial and Tech Value of a Patent
• SuperBoolean Heuristic Boolean Patent Search Engine
• 6-Sigma Patent Data Quality Applied to Intellectual Property Management
• Patent Quality in CAFC - Pre v. Post KSR v. Teleflex
• Advanced Document Retrieval Techniques for Patent Research (Elsevier)

Books

• Essentials of Patents, John Wiley & Sons, 2002 (Japanese, 2004)
• PatentWriter, Square One Publishing, NY, 2006
• From Patent To Profit: 2nd Ed. (Contributor), Square One Publishing, 2004
• Essentials of Intellectual Property Licensing (Preface), John Wiley & Sons, NJ, 2003
• Ironman Inventing & Business Plan, Patent Development for Inventors, PatentCafe, 1996 & 2000
• PatentCafe Invention Assessment, Invention Evaluation Software, PatentCafe, 1996 & 2000
• BSA, Official Drafting Merit Badge Manual, Boy Scouts of America, Fort Worth, TX, July, 1994

Published Debates and Forums

• Building a New IP Marketplace: Considered one of the premier IP Thought Leaders, Mr. Gibbs was a member of the esteemed panel of participants in this IBM / NY Law School WIKI project that discussed policy and process for improving patent quality, transparency, fair valuation, flexibility and global consistency.
• Standards for Standards: Moderator for this IBM facilitated online conversation comprised of 70 forward-thinking experts from across the globe, from academia, standards, law, government and public policy debated the question of whether standards setting bodies have kept pace with today's commercial, social, legal and political realities.

Contributing Editor / Columnist

Current and Recent

• Intellectual Asset Management (IAM) Magazine
• IP LAw 360 Newswire for Business Lawyers

Partial list of articles published on Imprint IP Magazine. View the full list of articles at IPFrontline.

• Attorneys, Advertise, Or Go Home
• "Better" Best Practices Reverse Layoffs in IP Law firms
• Patents' Quality Pre-and Post-KSR vs Teleflex
• Strategic Approaches To Using Patent Information
• Licensing Strategy – Analyzing Trend-Bucking Technologies
• SuperBoolean Patent Search - Faster, More Relevant Prior Art
• Managing Patents in the IT Department (Part I of II)
• The Cure For Patent Auction Fever:
• PatentCafe's New Online Tools Analyze Patent Value - Part II
• Few "Innovative" Companies Innovate! Are You? Do You?
• PatentCafe's New Online Tools Analyze Patent Value
• Rolling the Dice on Outsourcing
• Turning Patent Data Into Competitive Business Intelligence
• Managing Patents in the Information Technology Department (Part II of II)
• The IP Management Audit: Start Top-down, Then Across
• What Does Google Know About Searching the Web, That You Don’t Know About Searching Patents?
• Consequences of “Stick” Licensing; for Every Action, There is an Equal and Opposite Reaction
• Managing Patents in the Finance Department
• PatentCafe Streamlines Claims Test/Claims Chart Development
• 6-Sigma Patent Data Quality Standards
• Managing Patents in the Human Resources Department
• Shareholders Hold CEO's Responsible for Intellectual Property Value
• Latest Trends in Corporate Intellectual Property Development: Part I & II
• S507 News and Reviews; Omnibus Patent Act of 1997
• Technology Transfer: Intellectual Property & Business Development Alliances
• Invention Development Licensing and Promotion
• Legislation: Senate Bill S.507 Comes Out Of Committee
• Legislation: 18 Month Patent Application Publication

Past

• Columnist, Intellectual Property, Entrepreneur Magazine
• Contributing Editor, Inventors' Digest
• Contributing Editor, California Physician Magazine, San Francisco
• Contributing Editor, Satellite TV Magazine, Shelby, NC
• Contributing Editor, SMATV Magazine, Denver, CO