By Bill Meade Intellectual Property Management in a Growing Soon-To-Be-Company: Once a growing company signs its first cross license with a balancing payment going out, or has a “near death experience” with IP litigation, and/or loses a patent litigation, IP management gains its first proposition with senior management. The value of IP becomes intuitively obvious […]
Eight Species of Patent Strategy – Part 3 how intellectual property management develops from level 3 to level 4
September 25, 2012 by Leave a Comment
The Apple vs. Samsung Verdict Actually Demonstrates that Patents Do Promote Product Innovation
September 24, 2012 by 1 Comment
By Jackie Hutter In the time that the Apple vs. Samsung patent fight has been underway, we have been inundated with an untold number of articles on how Apple is stifling innovation in the SmartPhone world. (Haven’t seen these: just do a Google search for “Apple stif . . .” you don’t have to type […]
Integrated IP management technologies: the means to more ends
September 21, 2012 by Leave a Comment
By Peter Ackerman and Peter Slate One of the primary characteristics of well-run organisations is that they continually strive to do better. Universities and research organisations increasingly understand the potential commercial value they are creating in the labs. At the same time, they are coming to realise that they must emulate competitively successful enterprises in […]
To Sell or License your IP? How to determine which, if either, route is best for your business?
September 20, 2012 by Leave a Comment
By John Pryor IP Sales and Licensing – A Mainstream Strategy 2011 was a seminal year for sales and licensing of IP, and for the first time IP deals featured on a regular basis in the mainstream business press. Some recent headlines include: Microsoft and Apple purchase 880 Novell patents for $450 million. Google acquires […]
Strategic intellectual property offshoring through outsourcing
September 19, 2012 by Leave a Comment
By Fred Logue and Tony Owens Traditionally intellectual property (IP) offshoring has been used by multinational corporations as a way to reduce their global effective tax rates by holding their IP in low tax offshore jurisdictions. The 2009 relocation by McDonalds of its European head office to Geneva was reportedly motivated by the desire to […]
Can you predict which patents are high risk?
September 18, 2012 by Leave a Comment
By Severin de Wit She compared litigated and non litigated patents and researched the effect of “acquired characteristics” or events that happen after the patent has been granted. She shows that these so called “post-issued events” or “traits” of a patent improve insight into a patent’s worth. There are “intrinsic” characteristics of a patent, those […]
Dirty data within an IP Data Management System
September 17, 2012 by Leave a Comment
By Donal O’Connell Intellectual Property (IP) rights are valuable assets for any business, possibly among the most important that it possesses. It is therefore imperative that the associated IP data is also treated with the respect that it deserves. Data integrity is data that has a complete or whole structure. All characteristics of the data […]
What marketing should know about IP
September 14, 2012 by 3 Comments
By Duncan Bucknell IP is a source of great value for our organisation – keep in touch with the IP function. Messages around IP successes can really leverage our success in the market. You have to be very careful about what you say to the world, but when you get it right, you can sing […]
How to develop an IP Strategy: outline of steps
September 13, 2012 by Leave a Comment
By Kate Wilson There is no question that an IP strategy should be aligned with business strategy. But, what needs to be better recognised is that IP issues can actually drive most strategic considerations in an organisation. For example, many pharmaceutical & chemical companies (Dow for example) focus their research on compounds for which they […]
Court of Justice of the European Union: Requirements for a description of goods and services – Scope of protection of specification consisting of class headings (decision of June 19, 2012 – Case C-307/10 – Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys v. Registrar of Trade Marks – IP TRANSLATOR)
September 12, 2012 by Leave a Comment
By Professor Dr. Alexander von Mühlendahl The Court of Justice of the EU (ECJ) establishes requirements of clarity and precision for the indication of goods and services in trademark applications and registrations and rules on the scope of class headings. For many years questions of how to claim goods and services in trademark applications and […]
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