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
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 […]
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 […]
Building from the base up, or is that down?
August 28, 2012 by 9 Comments
By Ana Popescu Two of the key IP questions for small companies are: How can I base my business strategy on IP when I know that there is always a risk that I will be sued or that someone will steal my idea without me being able to retaliate? Is it not better to keep […]
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, […]
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 […]
The importance of patent protected differentiators to mobile device manufacturers
August 16, 2012 by Leave a Comment
By Tim Higginson Mobile device manufacturers need to focus on acquiring or developing: user-facing, patent-protected differentiators in order to compete in the brutal game between non-Apple manufacturers. This is for two primary reasons 1) The vast number of consumers do not care about the internal specifications of mobile devices (smartphones, tablets, etc) • so differentiating […]
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 […]
Visualizing Invention
August 12, 2012 by 1 Comment
By Bill Meade As we were writing ‘The pocket guide to invention workshops’ Bob Sesek (HP super-inventor with 600 disclosures and forty-some patents issued) came up with a great graphic to visualize the inventing which was and was not happening. Here it is: The blue boxes are ideasthat could be disclosed, but which are not […]
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 […]
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