By Jackie Maguire Most businesses know that intellectual property (IP) is important; but many are not really sure how to make the most of it. Yet a comprehensive IP strategy affects just about every aspect of a company’s day-to-day business, says Jackie Maguire, CEO of Coller IP. When it comes to tackling IP, there are […]
Rating inventions and patents
August 11, 2012 by 1 Comment
By Severin de Wit We constantly rate things. A motion picture rating system is designated to classify films with regard to suitability for audiences in terms of issues such as sex, violence, substance abuse, profanity, impudence or other types of mature content. A credit rating estimates the credit worthiness of an individual, corporation, or even […]
How to Improve your Innovation ROI with Early Stage Patent Expertise
August 7, 2012 by Leave a Comment
By Jackie Hutter Innovation teams are often removed organizationally from a company’s patent matters. This can mean that corporate innovation processes move forward with little or no consideration of whether competitors can legally “knock off” the resulting consumer offering. Companies may then not attain expected ROI because competitors can legally copy the innovation—be it a […]
Rating inventions, patent applications and granted patents
August 6, 2012 by 1 Comment
By Donal O’Connell The concept of rating things A motion picture rating system is designated to classify films with regard to suitability for audiences in terms of issues such as sex, violence, substance abuse, profanity, impudence or other types of mature content. The movie rating system used in the United States was created in 1968, […]
Perfect Storm is Set to Slam IP Rights, Holders
August 5, 2012 by 2 Comments
By Bruce Berman Broad and largely unfounded disdain for intellectual property rights and holders has gone beyond bickering between operating companies and NPEs, or Hollywood (old economy) and Silicon Valley (new economy). It is starting to have an impact on innovation and investment, and how stakeholders view intangible property, like music, software and new drugs. […]
SMEs can leverage their IP to facilitate R&D financing
August 4, 2012 by 1 Comment
By Severin de Wit A recently published paper by Dr. Gaetan de Rassenfosse explains how firms can use their patents to finance innovation [1]. He argues that patents aimed at monetization of IP is more important for SMEs than for large companies and reports evidence that European SMEs face more difficulties than SMEs in the […]
The Broader Role of an IP Strategist
August 3, 2012 by 1 Comment
By Robert Cantrell Classical strategy shows that the most successful organizations in any professional discipline tend to assemble good people, ideas, and tools in that order of priority. This makes sense when you think about it given that good people tend to use good ideas and procure useful tools to support them. Look at any […]
The core of an IP Strategists work…
July 29, 2012 by Leave a Comment
By Duncan Bucknell “And the core of the strategist’s work is always the same, discover the crucial factors in a situation and design a way to coordinate and focus actions to deal with them.” (Richard Rumelt in the June 2011 McKinsey Quarterly.) I think this is a great summary – it gets to the heart […]
Avoid jointly owned intellectual property like the plague
July 26, 2012 by 1 Comment
By Donal O’Connell Not all the smart people work for you Traditionally, internal innovation was the paradigm in which most companies operated. Most innovating companies kept their discoveries highly secret and made no attempt to assimilate information from outside their own research and development laboratories. This was driven by the belief that “the smart people […]
Eight Species of Patent Strategy – Part 1 the framework
July 23, 2012 by Leave a Comment
By Bill Meade Introduction: When invited to give a talk for an American Corporate Council Association (which changed its name to the Association of Corporate Council) in 2004 I was asked to speak on “patent strategy.” When I complained “That is a pretty big topic, can you narrow it down a little for me?” the […]
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