By Severin de Wit We constantly rate things. A motion picture rating system is designated to classify films with regard to suitability for audiences in terms of issues such as sex, violence, substance abuse, profanity, impudence or other types of mature content. A credit rating estimates the credit worthiness of an individual, corporation, or even […]
Singapore’s plan to be the regional IP centre in Asia
August 10, 2012 by 3 Comments
By Nick Redfearn What is Singapore up to with the consultation paper issued in mid March to open up it’s patent attorney profession? Singapore moved from a re-registration system to a full patent system in 1995. Since then it’s been an upward trend for patent attorneys and patent holders alike as numbers of local and […]
The Greatest Overlooked Risk in IP Strategy
August 9, 2012 by 7 Comments
By Robert Cantrell The greatest risk in strategy is neither the probability that any given harmful event will occur nor the extent of the negative consequences of that given event. If we know either of these, then we can compensate for them. Our greatest risk is that we either overestimate or underestimate the risk of […]
Three insights into how Intellectual Property can benefit an innovative business.
August 8, 2012 by 2 Comments
By Joren De Wachter All technology businesses innovate. It is what they do. They tackle a market opportunity by innovating. But innovation can happen at any level. It can be inventing a new technology, it can be process or method based, it can be through applying existing ideas in a novel way, or in many […]
How to Improve your Innovation ROI with Early Stage Patent Expertise
August 7, 2012 by Leave a Comment
By Jackie Hutter Innovation teams are often removed organizationally from a company’s patent matters. This can mean that corporate innovation processes move forward with little or no consideration of whether competitors can legally “knock off” the resulting consumer offering. Companies may then not attain expected ROI because competitors can legally copy the innovation—be it a […]
Rating inventions, patent applications and granted patents
August 6, 2012 by 1 Comment
By Donal O’Connell The concept of rating things A motion picture rating system is designated to classify films with regard to suitability for audiences in terms of issues such as sex, violence, substance abuse, profanity, impudence or other types of mature content. The movie rating system used in the United States was created in 1968, […]
Perfect Storm is Set to Slam IP Rights, Holders
August 5, 2012 by 2 Comments
By Bruce Berman Broad and largely unfounded disdain for intellectual property rights and holders has gone beyond bickering between operating companies and NPEs, or Hollywood (old economy) and Silicon Valley (new economy). It is starting to have an impact on innovation and investment, and how stakeholders view intangible property, like music, software and new drugs. […]
SMEs can leverage their IP to facilitate R&D financing
August 4, 2012 by 1 Comment
By Severin de Wit A recently published paper by Dr. Gaetan de Rassenfosse explains how firms can use their patents to finance innovation [1]. He argues that patents aimed at monetization of IP is more important for SMEs than for large companies and reports evidence that European SMEs face more difficulties than SMEs in the […]
The Broader Role of an IP Strategist
August 3, 2012 by 1 Comment
By Robert Cantrell Classical strategy shows that the most successful organizations in any professional discipline tend to assemble good people, ideas, and tools in that order of priority. This makes sense when you think about it given that good people tend to use good ideas and procure useful tools to support them. Look at any […]
IP and IC — the same thing or not?
August 2, 2012 by 2 Comments
By Mary Adams Intellectual property (IP) is a term that is usually used to refer to specific types of structural capital that enjoy special legal status. These include patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets. Each of these categories has a specific body of law associated with it. Patents have to be approved by a national […]
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