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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
Occupy IP: New Economy Businesses Clash with Old
August 22, 2012 by Leave a Comment
By Bruce Berman It May be Too Much, Too Late for Content Providers Finally Trying to Tame the Internet; a Fresh Approach is Needed [The following appears as an “Insider Views” commentary on Intellectual Property Watch] Have copyright holders become their own worst enemies? Poorly drafted bills in the U.S. Senate and Congress designed to […]
What is an Intellectual Property Strategy?
August 21, 2012 by 1 Comment
By Bill Meade Introduction: Intellectual property (IP) is as complicated as a gothic cathedral … and can be more expensive. The complexity of IP is such that if you do not manage your IP, it will manage itself. Now, autopilot can be a fine way to manage IP if your industry is stagnant, competitors are […]
A Quick Quiz: Do you have what it takes to realize the potential of a new innovation or IP asset?
August 20, 2012 by Leave a Comment
By Mary Adams We had a really fun opportunity offered to us late last year. It came from an unexpected source but we were thrilled to do it. The opportunity was to build a “QuickScan” for business professionals to analyze the strength of a business opportunity. The request came from the folks at Transfer Pricing Associates, […]
The Elusiveness of Intellectual Assets
August 17, 2012 by Leave a Comment
By General Patent Corporation Today’s modern accounting systems are truly wondrous. They seem to account for everything…well, almost everything. When raw materials or finished goods are purchased, the double-entry basis of modern accounting creates an asset called inventory. When an invoice is issued, another asset – accounts receivables – is created. When an order is […]
Eight Species of Patent Strategy – Part 2 Five levels of IP management and how intellectual property management develops from stage 1 to stage 2
August 14, 2012 by 1 Comment
By Bill Meade Introduction: In part 1 of this article series on patent strategy we derived eight species of strategy from the steps a successful/profitable patent goes through over its lifetime. In part 2 (this article) we are going to use the eight species framework to illustrate how intellectual property management evolves through five phases […]
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