By David Healey Patent licensing is governed largely by contract law. Like any contract, you can do a lot by agreement: Stipulate to “ADR”, shorten statutes of limitations, cap damages, eliminate consequential damages. Now you have some new twists to work into your contracts as well as some developments that could impact patent value. On […]
Do Accounting Systems and Language Hamper Creative Business Strategies Involving Intangible Assets and IP?
November 7, 2012 by Leave a Comment
By Michael D. Moberly For management teams, boards, entreprenuers, and others operating in knowledge intensive (IP, intangible asset, intellectual capital) sectors, it’s not particularly noteworthy to point out there are significant differences between the accounting and intellectual property – intangible asset communities. Those differences are largely conceptual. They evolve around accounting language and systems that […]
Inter-Operability Standards and Intellectual Property
November 1, 2012 by Leave a Comment
By Donal O’Connell Interoperability standards Interoperability refers to the ability of diverse systems to work together or inter-operate, without any special effort on the part of the customer or end-user. It is the ability of two or more networks, systems, devices, applications or components to exchange information between them and to use the information so […]
Anatomy of a License Agreement
October 31, 2012 by Leave a Comment
How to Efficiently and Meticulously Analyze Agreements By David R. Jarczyk and Daniel T. Jarczyk In light of the January 4, 2011 ruling on the Uniloc USA V. Microsoft patent infringement case, analysts around the world are certain to see a heightened need for using fact-based evidence as an alternative to the now unsupported 25 […]
The Patent Portfolio Theory: How Aggregation and Synergy Increase Patent Portfolio Valuation
October 30, 2012 by Leave a Comment
By Kalu Kalu The Patent Portfolio Theory, coined by Parchomovsky & Wagner of University of Pennsylvania Law School, attempts to reconcile what is known as the “Patent Paradox”; the recent phenomenon of rising patent applications, even as the expected value of each patent decreases. The patent portfolio theory resolves this paradox by arguing that the […]
Make Money (and Don’t Waste It)!
October 26, 2012 by Leave a Comment
By Lily Li Patents have intrinsic value beyond their contribution to your company’s product lines. After all, patents are the physical embodiment of your company’s technological genius, just as stocks and bonds embody the value of your company’s other intangible assets. Instead of letting your patents go to waste, treat your patent portfolio like your […]
Corporate IP Strategy – a High-Level View
October 18, 2012 by Leave a Comment
By Ian Maxwell There are two good strategic reasons why any operating company should have patents, and they both relate to financial return on investment: 1. To use a monopoly, suggested or realized by patents, to get a higher margin and/or higher revenues for products or services, and 2. For the value of the patents […]
How to build a world-class licensing programme
October 17, 2012 by Leave a Comment
By Mac Leckrone New business models and a growing anti-patent trend are changing the business of licensing. The challenge for licensing programme managers in this evolving landscape is to find ways of delivering greater value to customers. At least two ‘megatrends’ – large-scale shifts in the landscape – have the potential to change most of […]
When everything becomes software, how does that affect IP strategy?
October 5, 2012 by Leave a Comment
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, […]
When the IP Is Your Own
October 1, 2012 by Leave a Comment
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 […]
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