By Damian Durrant Continuing the latest installment of IP Answers, IDT’s Legal Director of Intellectual Property and Licensing Bruce Elder explains how in-house counsel can get attention and budget from the C-suite for their IP program. In Part One, Bruce began by explaining how to position IP in the context of overall priorities, speak the […]
How IP Leaders Can Win C-Suite Support – Interview with Bruce Elder of IDT – Part II
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Individual Patents that Built Empires
July 25, 2016 by Leave a Comment
By Damian Durrant Whether addressed from a strategic or tactical perspective, few topics in IP receive more attention than the patent portfolio. Yet, for all the conference sessions and chatter about managing the aggregate, much of the value of any portfolio often resides in a few key individual patents, something Workday’s Head of IP Lisa […]
Creating an IP Strategy and Acquiring Support from Your Executive Team: an Interview with Lisa McFall, Head of IP at Workday
June 27, 2016 by Leave a Comment
By Damian Durrant Lisa McFall is an IP star in Silicon Valley. After litigating patent, copyright, trademark and trade secret matters at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati for a decade, she went in house at Yahoo! and ran its IP litigation and conflict management program for five years. She left in 2009 to co-found Ovidian […]
Silicon Valley GCs focus on IP Management and Strategy
February 1, 2016 by Leave a Comment
By Damian Durrant At the recent 27th Annual All Hands Meeting organized by the Silicon Valley Association of General Counsel (SVAGC), intellectual property matters were forefront, and particularly IP strategy, litigation and portfolio management. Over three hundred counsel and representatives of the dynamic Silicon Valley technology community attended the conference, which also addressed pressing corporate regulatory, […]
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