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 […]
Eight Species of Patent Strategy – Part 3 how intellectual property management develops from level 3 to level 4
September 25, 2012 by Leave a Comment
To Sell or License your IP? How to determine which, if either, route is best for your business?
September 20, 2012 by Leave a Comment
By John Pryor IP Sales and Licensing – A Mainstream Strategy 2011 was a seminal year for sales and licensing of IP, and for the first time IP deals featured on a regular basis in the mainstream business press. Some recent headlines include: Microsoft and Apple purchase 880 Novell patents for $450 million. Google acquires […]
What marketing should know about IP
September 14, 2012 by 3 Comments
By Duncan Bucknell IP is a source of great value for our organisation – keep in touch with the IP function. Messages around IP successes can really leverage our success in the market. You have to be very careful about what you say to the world, but when you get it right, you can sing […]
Open Innovation Insights: 5 Biggest IP Legal Mistakes Small Companies Make When Working with Large Companies
September 11, 2012 by 1 Comment
By Jackie Hutter Open Innovation guru Stefan Lindegaard recently asked me what the biggest IP legal mistakes small companies make when they are working with large companies. This is a subject very near and dear to my heart, as I am currently “moonlighting” as GC of a start up energy company that is moving toward […]
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 […]
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 […]
Patent Valuations: Why do they Differ from Selling Price?
August 31, 2012 by Leave a Comment
By Bruce Berman Owners and buyers are frequently out of sync w/ investors Valuations that are either too high or low underscore the need to provide more bracketed price scenarios when it comes to selling a patent portfolio. The frequent disconnect between seller, appraiser and buyer suggests a more flexible approach might be needed that […]
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.]
Corporate Business Leaders: Want to Create Value from Your IP? Stop Making it Your Lawyers’ Problem.
August 24, 2012 by 1 Comment
By Jackie Hutter One of the biggest complaints I get from corporate innovation and product development professionals is how risk averse their lawyers tend to be about dealing with intellectual property (“IP”) issues. It doesn’t matter whether these business people are talking about their outside or in-house lawyers, either. To a person, the complaint generally […]
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