By Jackie Hutter Open Innovation guru Stefan Lindegaard recently asked me what the biggest IP legal mistakes small companies make when they are working with large companies. This is a subject very near and dear to my heart, as I am currently “moonlighting” as GC of a start up energy company that is moving toward […]
Open Innovation Insights: 5 Biggest IP Legal Mistakes Small Companies Make When Working with Large Companies
September 11, 2012 by 1 Comment
International or foreign patent filing strategies
September 10, 2012 by Leave a Comment
By Donal O’Connell The territorial nature of patents: The “territorial” nature of patents refers to the fact that countries enact their own patents laws, typically by statute, and these patent laws have no application or force outside the country in which they are enacted. For example, a U.S. patent grants enforceable exclusionary rights in the […]
Open Source hardware – does it work?
September 7, 2012 by 1 Comment
By Joren De Wachter Open Source hardware is the next step in the development of “open” licenses; A review of the most important OS hardware licenses show them to be a combination of known techniques, like creative commons, and “covenant not to sue” for patents or design rights; Their validity and enforceability seem somewhat weaker […]
Human capital in IP Strategy
September 6, 2012 by 1 Comment
By Ana Popescu Today I was about to set forth to discuss the difference between the market value and the business value of patents and their utility. As my thought process expanded I realized however that what I initially considered to be important seemed to fade away. Let me explain what I mean: I understand […]
It’s Time for Your R & D Team to Stop Inventing and Start Innovating
September 5, 2012 by Leave a Comment
By Jackie Huter In a recent post on his 15 Inno blog, Open Innovation guru Stefan Lindegaard presented the ostensibly nonsensical hypothesis: R & D leaders are often a “threat” to innovation. Stefan’s post resulted from an interaction he had with a senior R & D person at a mid-sized tech company, who apparently adhered […]
IP Philosophy for corporate, IP Strategy for Business Units
September 4, 2012 by 2 Comments
By Duncan Bucknell Can you really have a cohesive IP Strategy at the corporate level? I don’t think so. Unless of course they are one and the same thing. (Small companies with effectively one business unit obviously have the same IP Strategy for both.) Otherwise, each business unit needs its own defined IP Strategy – […]
Industry University Collaboration and Intellectual Property
September 3, 2012 by Leave a Comment
By Donal O’Connell The world is our lab There are a number of industry and market-place trends impacting innovation. We are witnessing an expanding number of technologies combined together in many products and services. At the same time, we are seeing an explosive growth in new applications and a phenomenal increase in the amount of […]
Patent Valuations: Why do they Differ from Selling Price?
August 31, 2012 by Leave a Comment
By Bruce Berman Owners and buyers are frequently out of sync w/ investors Valuations that are either too high or low underscore the need to provide more bracketed price scenarios when it comes to selling a patent portfolio. The frequent disconnect between seller, appraiser and buyer suggests a more flexible approach might be needed that […]
Why IP Portfolios and Sales Often Misalign
August 30, 2012 by 6 Comments
By Robert Cantrell It ought to be a given that the IP portfolio should align with the salient benefits that salespeople for the associated products and services sell. For example, if salespeople use safety in an accident as a key selling point for Volvo, then you should expect that an ample part of the R&D […]
Trademark volumes in South East Asia
August 29, 2012 by Leave a Comment
By Nick Redfearn IP Komodo devours data, so looked with interest at the published data on 2011 trademark applications in South East Asia. Some of the data is hard to compare. For example Philippines has multi class application data, Indonesia a mix of multi and single class. So for the Philippines and to a degree Indonesia […]
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