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
Integrated IP management technologies: the means to more ends
September 21, 2012 by Leave a Comment
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 […]
Strategic intellectual property offshoring through outsourcing
September 19, 2012 by Leave a Comment
By Fred Logue and Tony Owens Traditionally intellectual property (IP) offshoring has been used by multinational corporations as a way to reduce their global effective tax rates by holding their IP in low tax offshore jurisdictions. The 2009 relocation by McDonalds of its European head office to Geneva was reportedly motivated by the desire to […]
Dirty data within an IP Data Management System
September 17, 2012 by Leave a Comment
By Donal O’Connell Intellectual Property (IP) rights are valuable assets for any business, possibly among the most important that it possesses. It is therefore imperative that the associated IP data is also treated with the respect that it deserves. Data integrity is data that has a complete or whole structure. All characteristics of the data […]
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 […]
How to develop an IP Strategy: outline of steps
September 13, 2012 by Leave a Comment
By Kate Wilson There is no question that an IP strategy should be aligned with business strategy. But, what needs to be better recognised is that IP issues can actually drive most strategic considerations in an organisation. For example, many pharmaceutical & chemical companies (Dow for example) focus their research on compounds for which they […]
Court of Justice of the European Union: Requirements for a description of goods and services – Scope of protection of specification consisting of class headings (decision of June 19, 2012 – Case C-307/10 – Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys v. Registrar of Trade Marks – IP TRANSLATOR)
September 12, 2012 by Leave a Comment
By Professor Dr. Alexander von Mühlendahl The Court of Justice of the EU (ECJ) establishes requirements of clarity and precision for the indication of goods and services in trademark applications and registrations and rules on the scope of class headings. For many years questions of how to claim goods and services in trademark applications and […]
International or foreign patent filing strategies
September 10, 2012 by Leave a Comment
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 […]
Human capital in IP Strategy
September 6, 2012 by 1 Comment
By Ana Popescu Today I was about to set forth to discuss the difference between the market value and the business value of patents and their utility. As my thought process expanded I realized however that what I initially considered to be important seemed to fade away. Let me explain what I mean: I understand […]
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 – […]
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