By Efrat Kasznik and Lynn Dudinsky It seems that not a day goes by without a commentary about Unicorns, a Silicon Valley-coined term used to describe a startup (pre-exit) with a valuation exceeding $1 billion. The number of Unicorns, the vast majority of which are US software companies, has recently crossed the 150 mark, according […]
Prevention not cure: online IPR in China
December 21, 2015 by Leave a Comment
By Alex Bayntun-Lees China possesses a population of over 1.3 billion people[1]; of these, there were 632 million internet users in China by the end of 2014 – this is approximately half the population of China and three times the number of internet users in South-East Asia[2]. The share of internet users in China now […]
Google’s patent buying program, an apparent success, is thinly reported
December 14, 2015 by 1 Comment
By Bruce Berman Better than one-in-four of the patents offered to Google for purchase as a result of its Patent Purchase Promotion in May were acquired by the search engine. The only article we could find about IP buying experiment’s results appeared in IEEE Spectrum, which is published by a professional association of engineers. IP CloseUp has […]
Combat Your Fear Of Non-Practicing Entities
December 7, 2015 by Leave a Comment
By Mary Juetten I often like to say that if I had a dollar for every time someone denied having any intellectual property (IP), I would not have to raise funds to grow Traklight. The same applies for questions around the value of patents for small businesses with little capital to assert their rights. Startups […]
How IPR can help (or hinder) SME growth in Southeast Asia
November 30, 2015 by Leave a Comment
By Samuel Sabasteanski Southeast Asia: A market driving future growth The Asian Century will see the continent’s middle class grow to account for roughly 60% of middle-class population and spending by 2030. Against this backdrop, ASEAN, a union of 10 countries in Southeast Asia, represents the seventh-largest economy in the world and the second-fastest growing […]
Why Business Fails to Generate Patenting Strategies that Protect Innovation Value and How to Make It Easier
November 23, 2015 by Leave a Comment
By Jackie Hutter Business leaders often find the decision of whether to obtain patent protection for their company’s innovations to be difficult. Of course, conventional wisdom, not to mention legions of patent attorneys, assert that patents are “important” to “protect” one’s business. In my experience, however, few business people can clearly articulate specifically why and […]
China IP Case Study: Keeping Trade Secrets
November 16, 2015 by Leave a Comment
By Alex Bayntun-Lees Nearly all businesses in all industries and sectors possess trade secrets. Trade secrets are a valuable and highly useful form of intellectual property that are nevertheless often undervalued and overlooked by their owners. This is not least the case in the service sector where the relative value of trade secrets as intangible assets […]
5 Reasons to Add Design Patents to your IP Portfolio
November 9, 2015 by Leave a Comment
By Justin Kunz, Douglas Yerkeson and Jeffrey Goodwin From smartphones to yoga clothing, sinks to software icons, design patents are the trending asset in intellectual property (IP) circles. Investments in design patents, which protect an article’s look or ornamental design, have been steadily increasing over time (see Fig. 1). Based on recent trends, we expect an increase […]
Intellectual Property in China’s Food and Beverage Industry
November 2, 2015 by Leave a Comment
By Alex Bayntun-Lees In 2011, China surpassed the U.S. as the world’s largest consumer market for the food and beverage (F&B) industry, with the Chinese National Bureau of Statistics reporting an annual growth rate of around 15 per cent in F&B imports for the previous five years, totalling around US$98 billion by 2012. Chinese demand […]
China and the next Great Wall
October 26, 2015 by Leave a Comment
By Adam Bulakowski Summary: Valuable IP will define an upcoming chapter in China’s growth story. China recognizes that innovation is an imperative for its long-term economic growth. Less discussed amongst the country’s initiatives to promote innovation is the fact that China’s national system for protecting IP rights continues to strengthen. The rapid evolution of China’s […]
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