By Mary Juetten The battle cry for those in the business of identifying and protecting intellectual property (IP) has long been “ You can’t protect what you don’t know you have.” This especially true for early-stage companies, who amass a lot of IP in a short period of time. Furthermore, identified and protected IP matters […]
Your Patents Probably Don’t Matter. Or Do They? How to Know the Difference.
May 9, 2016 by 2 Comments
By Jackie Hutter Let’s cut through the noise and get real about patents: they rarely matter to business value, but when they do matter, they typically matter A LOT. Sadly, there are few people out there–even those appearing as patent experts–who can distinguish between these two vastly different scenarios. This means that most patents, and […]
Patents – which countries to file in?
May 2, 2016 by Leave a Comment
By Duncan Bucknell List key markets in size order. Add countries where competitors will manufacture. Add other particularly important countries for logistics – eg. is there a country that everyone will have to transit through? Review and reorder the list based on overall strategic importance with the above factors in mind. Get a quote from […]
There Is No Yelp for Patent Brokers – 10 Best Practices for Picking a Patent Broker
April 25, 2016 by Leave a Comment
By Kent Richardson Clients often ask us to help them find a patent broker. Unfortunately, unlike real estate brokers, you cannot simply look up patent broker reviews on Yelp. With new brokers entering the market, old ones leaving, and little market transparency, it can be difficult to pick a patent broker. And this is a […]
The rise of the Private Commons
April 18, 2016 by Leave a Comment
By Joren De Watcher 1. What is a Private Commons? A growing number of my clients are asking me to advise them on a new way of using Intellectual Property (“IP”). The question typically arises from a request to address business value that is under-used, insufficiently captured, or both. Very often, this business value is […]
IP licensing
April 11, 2016 by Leave a Comment
By Donal O’Connell What is an IP license? An IP license in its simplest form is an agreement where an IP owner (the Licensor) permits another person (the Licensee) to engage in activities that, in the absence of the IP License Agreement, would infringe the Licensor’s legal rights attaching to the IP. In return the […]
Patenting patent processes
April 4, 2016 by Leave a Comment
By Duncan Bucknell How do you protect your IP Processes? More importantly, have you ever done a freedom to operate clearance on them? To kick off this short series of posts, here are a few insights on some of the top ‘patent process’ patent filers, what they are covering, and the most cited patents. Given […]
Tackling the scourge of counterfeit products online
March 28, 2016 by 1 Comment
By Donal O’Connell The online world: E-commerce is the buying and selling of products and services, or the transmitting of funds or associated data, over the Internet. These business transactions occur either business-to-business, business-to-consumer, consumer-to-consumer or consumer-to-business. It is estimated that there are about 20 million e-commerce stores selling products on the internet around the […]
How much do you REALLY need to raise on Kickstarter or IndieGogo?
March 21, 2016 by Leave a Comment
By Noah McNeely Kickstarter, and other crowdfunding sites like Indiegogo, have created an unprecedented level of access to funding for inventors, entrepreneurs, and start-ups. It’s easier than ever before to develop a new product, manufacture it, and launch it to market, but it’s also easier than ever before to make some huge mistakes, which can […]
Buying Patents? Plan to Buy Them in the First Six Months
March 14, 2016 by Leave a Comment
By Kent Richardson Buying patents takes time. Selecting the right patents from the myriad available, diligence, building the business case, pricing, and negotiations, all take time. Next there is the internal corporate approval process: legal, business unit, finance. So, how much time do you have? We all know that faster would be better, but how should […]
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