By Donal O’Connell Dissecting intangible assets Imagine for a moment the Royal Air Force’s roundel, that red, white and blue circular identification mark painted on aircraft to identify them. That roundel has also been associated with pop art of the 1960s It became part of the pop consciousness when British rock group The Who wore […]
Intellectual Property Risk Mitigation
June 19, 2013 by Leave a Comment
By Donal O’Connell Risk Risk is the chance of something going wrong, and the danger that damage or loss will occur, whereas risk management is the process of analysing exposure to risk and determining how best to then handle such exposure. Intellectual Property (IP) By its very nature, there are both rewards and risks associated […]
Invention harvesting
June 5, 2013 by 1 Comment
By Donal O’Connell To invent: To invent means to produce or contrive something previously unknown by the use of ingenuity or imagination. An inventor is therefore someone who invents, someone who devises some new process, appliance, machine, or article. When a new product appears, the person who first thought of it, and who first defined […]
IP processes and process development
January 18, 2013 by 1 Comment
By Donal O’Connell Overview of IP Processes & IP Process Development Intellectual Property (IP) rights are valuable assets for any business, possibly among the most important that it possesses. It is therefore imperative that whatever IP processes are in use are fit for purpose, and add some value to those using these processes. Whatever IP […]
Inter-Operability Standards and Intellectual Property
November 1, 2012 by Leave a Comment
By Donal O’Connell Interoperability standards Interoperability refers to the ability of diverse systems to work together or inter-operate, without any special effort on the part of the customer or end-user. It is the ability of two or more networks, systems, devices, applications or components to exchange information between them and to use the information so […]
Getting the most from your IP agent networks
October 9, 2012 by 1 Comment
By Donal O’Connell IP agent networks stretch around the globe and through every industry sector. Donal O’Connell and Sabine Baum outline best practice for managing those networks and turning them into crucial business assets One of the most essential elements in supporting a global intellectual property (IP) portfolio is the network of IP agents and […]
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 […]
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 […]
International or foreign patent filing strategies
September 10, 2012 by Leave a Comment
By Donal O’Connell The territorial nature of patents: The “territorial” nature of patents refers to the fact that countries enact their own patents laws, typically by statute, and these patent laws have no application or force outside the country in which they are enacted. For example, a U.S. patent grants enforceable exclusionary rights in the […]
Industry University Collaboration and Intellectual Property
September 3, 2012 by Leave a Comment
By Donal O’Connell The world is our lab There are a number of industry and market-place trends impacting innovation. We are witnessing an expanding number of technologies combined together in many products and services. At the same time, we are seeing an explosive growth in new applications and a phenomenal increase in the amount of […]
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