By Sean M. O’Connor Crowdfunding has been heralded as a revolutionary and democratic way to connect ordinary individuals with innovative projects they would like to support. The version involving equity investments in start-ups will be regulated under the U.S. JOBS Act of 2012.[i] But start-ups who use this legal pathway will become essentially “junior” reporting […]
Big Data and IP business strategy
February 19, 2014 by Leave a Comment
By Joren De Wachter Big Data is an important technological change happening around us. How should businesses react? What is the right business strategy? And, as part of such business strategy, what is the right Intellectual Property Strategy? It can be the difference between success and failure. 1. What is Big Data? “Big Data” is […]
Is there Intellectual Property in Money?
January 22, 2014 by Leave a Comment
By Joren De Wachter Usually, the question is asked the other way around: “is there money in Intellectual Property?” But as technology is creating new kinds of currencies and new ways to pay, the question of Intellectual Property Rights in money becomes relevant. 1. New money Amazon has recently started issuing its own currency, called […]
The Future of the Innovation Patent System
November 13, 2013 by 2 Comments
In the context of the current review of the current Australian Innovation Patents System [i] By Ian A. Maxwell For a standard Australian patent to be granted, an invention must be amongst other things both novel and inventive. The test for novelty differs from one patent jurisdiction to another but has some universally common features. In […]
Invention harvesting
June 5, 2013 by 1 Comment
By Donal O’Connell To invent: To invent means to produce or contrive something previously unknown by the use of ingenuity or imagination. An inventor is therefore someone who invents, someone who devises some new process, appliance, machine, or article. When a new product appears, the person who first thought of it, and who first defined […]
Medical Product Developments and the Valley of Death
March 12, 2013 by Leave a Comment
By Neil Wilkof It is called the “valley of death”. While the phrase may seem to conjure up the words of the 23rd Psalm written over two millennia ago (“Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death”), we are talking about something that is very here and now—the financing of medical […]
Do Patents Matter? Lean Startups Should Ignore Expert Advice and Let Their Data Drive Patenting Decisions
March 9, 2013 by 1 Comment
By Jackie Hutter Many hold strong opinions on the value of patents to business. Both in person and online, there are any number of “experts” who stridently insist that without patent protection, a company’s business goals are doomed. With about 350,000 new patent applications filed in 2012, there is no question that many agree that […]
Patenting and Protecting Early Stage Research and Innovations
February 14, 2013 by Leave a Comment
By Peter Cowan Patenting and Protecting Early Stage Research & Innovations For all the talk about patenting for startups and spin-offs, people often forget that there is a step that predates this discussion: Solving the Fundamental Technical Problem. Early stage research presents a challenge with respect to patenting: Balancing the trade-off between the competing forces […]
Why Register Patents in the “Start-up Nation”
January 28, 2013 by Leave a Comment
By Jeremy M Ben-David, at JMB Davis Ben-David Generally speaking, patents are registered in Israel not because of the market size, but in spite of it. In their book Start-up Nation originally published in 2009, authors Dan Senor and Saul Singer explain how Israel, a country with few natural resources and a population of little […]
An Innovation Cliff? Is It P&G’s Problem or All Our Problem?
December 21, 2012 by Leave a Comment
By Neil Wilkof Forget Silicon Valley and Apple. If one really wants to understand long-term success in innovation, one should leave the California West Coast and sojourn in the US Midwest. In particular, one should focus on the likes of 3M (in Minneapolis) here and Procter & Gamble (in Cincinnati) here. Is is here, where […]
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