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 […]
How to Improve your Innovation ROI with Early Stage Patent Expertise
August 7, 2012 by Leave a Comment
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 […]
IP and IC — the same thing or not?
August 2, 2012 by 2 Comments
By Mary Adams Intellectual property (IP) is a term that is usually used to refer to specific types of structural capital that enjoy special legal status. These include patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets. Each of these categories has a specific body of law associated with it. Patents have to be approved by a national […]
Losing the Jury
August 1, 2012 by 2 Comments
By General Patent Corporation Jury trials, statistically speaking, are usually a good thing for patent owners. But as patent litigation becomes ever more complex, and the technology underlying the patents ever more mind-boggling, what happens if the case in question goes right over the jurors’ heads? Recently, we’ve seen two cases-in-point: high-profile cases in which […]
iTunes in Asia – IP trumps Apple’s entry
July 31, 2012 by Leave a Comment
By Nick Redfearn The iTunes Store has just opened to consumers with credit cards in Brunei, Cambodia, Hong Kong, Laos, Macau, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, Sri Lanka and Vietnam. That’s most of ASEAN. But not in the biggest market, Indonesia or newly opening Myanmar. The latter is understandable given the lack of development. But […]
How Nokia plans to turn its implosion into a transition
July 30, 2012 by Leave a Comment
By Erin-Michael Gill (Credit: Brian Glucroft) The news around Nokia has been understandably negative recently, with some calling its collapse “one of the most spectacular implosions in the history of business.” Last month, Nokia lost its top spot as the world’s largest cell phone manufacturer. Last week, it announced a reduction of 10,000 jobs globally […]
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 […]
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