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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Building from the base up, or is that down?
August 28, 2012 by 9 Comments
By Ana Popescu Two of the key IP questions for small companies are: How can I base my business strategy on IP when I know that there is always a risk that I will be sued or that someone will steal my idea without me being able to retaliate? Is it not better to keep […]
Aligning IP with Corporate Strategy and Cultivating Corporate Patent Practices
August 27, 2012 by Leave a Comment
By Naim Khan Presentation given at the 5th Patents as a Competitive Strategy Course, June 18, 19 2012. [This presentation is also available at Slideshare.]
Running efficient and effective Patent Board meetings
August 23, 2012 by Leave a Comment
By Donal O’Connell Patents Patents are generally intended to cover products or processes that contain new functional or technical aspects. They are therefore concerned with how things work, what they do, how they do it, what they are made of and how they are made. Patent protection means that the invention cannot be commercially made, […]
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