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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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