By Robert Cantrell For those who have not read previous posts under this title, I am working to sell a documentary that I financed and filmed. Like any scenario to put IP into the market, because things are ongoing, I can’t get into the details of the discussions. I can get into some of the […]
Invention Report Template
September 28, 2012 by Leave a Comment
By Donal O’Connell One simple yet effective way to build a level of discipline into the invention handling process is to define a standard template for invention reports coming from the inventor community. If the idea is of potential value and is patentable, then the inventor should complete an invention report. An invention report is […]
Low R&D Cost Per-Patent is a Poor Indicator of Good Return
September 26, 2012 by Leave a Comment
By Bruce Berman Patent Yield-Per-R&D Dollar Varies Widely by Industry, Technology & Business Model For most businesses obtaining patents and costly R&D go together like love and marriage – you can’t have one with out the other. Or can you? The cost of R&D that underlies a particular invention varies greatly by industry, business model […]
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
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 […]
The Apple vs. Samsung Verdict Actually Demonstrates that Patents Do Promote Product Innovation
September 24, 2012 by 1 Comment
By Jackie Hutter In the time that the Apple vs. Samsung patent fight has been underway, we have been inundated with an untold number of articles on how Apple is stifling innovation in the SmartPhone world. (Haven’t seen these: just do a Google search for “Apple stif . . .” you don’t have to type […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Can you predict which patents are high risk?
September 18, 2012 by Leave a Comment
By Severin de Wit She compared litigated and non litigated patents and researched the effect of “acquired characteristics” or events that happen after the patent has been granted. She shows that these so called “post-issued events” or “traits” of a patent improve insight into a patent’s worth. There are “intrinsic” characteristics of a patent, those […]
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 […]
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