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By Joren De Wachter Everything becomes software Marc Andreessen, co-founder of Netscape and currently co-founder and general partner of the venture capital firm Andreessen-Horowitz, wrote in August 2011 in the Wall Street Journal about how “Software is eating the world”. While Mr Andreessen was building on earlier observations, such as the author of this article, […]
By Peter Ackerman What do a Koosh ball and a tab of Viagra have in common? Aside from the pleasure they bring to millions, their economic success is premised upon the same type of IP protection. The company that makes Koosh balls – rainbow-coloured, plasma-filled rubber balls with protruding soft rubber spikes – and the […]
By Ralph Eckardt “Over the last 10 years, it has become imperative for CEOs to have not just a general understanding of the intellectual property issues facing their business and their industry, but to have quite a refined expertise relating to those issues… It is no longer simply the legal department’s problem. CEOs must now […]
By Ben Goodger Mistake 1. Don’t take account of the local market The classic and most frequent mistake is to assume that a formula for the licensing or franchising of a brand in one market will work equally well, unamended and unadapted, in another market. This is well illustrated by the story of KFC in […]
By Robert Cantrell For those who have not read previous posts under this title, I am working to sell a documentary that I financed and filmed. Like any scenario to put IP into the market, because things are ongoing, I can’t get into the details of the discussions. I can get into some of the […]
By Donal O’Connell One simple yet effective way to build a level of discipline into the invention handling process is to define a standard template for invention reports coming from the inventor community. If the idea is of potential value and is patentable, then the inventor should complete an invention report. An invention report is […]
By Bruce Berman Patent Yield-Per-R&D Dollar Varies Widely by Industry, Technology & Business Model For most businesses obtaining patents and costly R&D go together like love and marriage – you can’t have one with out the other. Or can you? The cost of R&D that underlies a particular invention varies greatly by industry, business model […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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