Valuation of IPR is a tricky business
“What’s the value of my IP” is a question that comes up in the mind of a lot of IP owners, enticed by news of lavishly priced IP rights, they would like to see if they can get their IP…
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How will Intellectual Property look like in in 2033?
Under the title “Patent rights, property, exclusivity and how a newborn reaching the age of maturity will experience the Patent system, if there is still one“ IPEG consultant Severin de Wit wrote this essay in a book (Liber Amicorum) contributed…
Tackling the scourge of counterfeit products online
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…
Award the Inventor, But How?
Most innovative businesses provide rewards and some form of recognition to inventors. There are two main reasons for having a reward and recognition program in place for inventors. Firstly in certain jurisdictions there are legal requirements to take into consideration,…
Strategies for Negotiating Licenses
You will never get the license agreement your technology deserves. You get the license agreement you negotiate. With this in mind, it is important for inventors, licensing professionals and intellectual property lawyers to constantly hone their negotiating skills. Here are…
Death of a Ringtone
How Nokia’s smartphone software strategy failed and ultimately killed the brand. Much has been written about the ups and downs of the cellular / mobile phone industry over the past 25 years, and particularly the smartphone industry in more recent…
Patent Valuation Indicators
Patents contribute to a company’s results, revenue, stock performance and reputation – they are one of the most important strategic assets for R&D-intensive firms. Patents have been highly influencing firms’ value in different ways, being at the same time a…
Value of Patents and the Endowment Effect
As research has shown, owners have an incentive to exaggerate the value of their property. This is true for all kind of property but is it also true for intellectual property? People are reluctant to part with their property, and…
University Inventions – Europe Needs a Bayh-Dole Act
Technology transfer of new ideas and innovation from universities and research institutes into society is a major source of Europe’s “knowledge economy”. However, EU firms are struggling to better exploit public-funded research (like those from universities) and transform their findings…
How to Make an Invention Report Template
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,…
Challenges in public and private domains will shape the Future of Intellectual Property
In the 2014, volume 3 edition of the “Journal of Intellectual Property Law and Management” an article is published by IPEG’s managing partner, Severin de Wit, called “Challenges in Public and Private Domains will shape the Future of Intellectual Property“.…
The NPE (“Patent Trolls”) Minefield
Non-Practicing Entities (NPEs) and Patent Assertion Entities (PAEs), also referred to as “patent trolls”, are causing heated discussions in the intellectual property space. They are commonly described as entities whose core business model is using IP to collect licensing fees instead…
A Deputy Without a Head
By naming former Google IP Chief Michelle Lee Deputy Director the Obama administration has tipped the patent scales in favor of tech businesses with special interests. In the absence of a named Director for over a year, naming Michelle Lee…
Nervous exhaustion: the recent evolution of “first sale” doctrine in US patent law
As we noted in a previous item (“Reselling products in the USA, Part II: ‘First Sale’ doctrine in patent,” March 22, 2013), American patent law features a doctrine of “exhaustion,” also sometimes (apparently interchangeably) called “first sale.” If you own…
Intellectual Property in our Daily Lives
From IP52.org. IP52 is a new movement, started by CropLife International and dedicated to changing the way we look at the world around us by better understanding the role of IP in our lives. Each week, IP52 releases new resources…
Geographical Indications, an undervalued IPR
In a very competitive environment, where pricing for agricultural products has been in a downward trend, producers of agri-food and agricultural products are looking how to add value thus escaping the “commodity curse”. Products with a strong traditional origin or…
Does every artist need to be a Picasso?
For quite some time, publishers, notably in the UK, have found a smart way of making big money out of lawyers and IP professional’s vanity. Legal 500, Super Lawyers, The Best Lawyers in America, Chambers and Partners, to name a…
The Future of Intellectual Property Law
Market failures, troubled access to medicine, impediments to free flow of information, copyright overextension, digital right protection, overkill and patents stifling rather than stimulating innovation are just a few of the disparaging themes around intellectual property. The main drives behind…
The Value of Withheld Indemnifications
A senior licensing executive from a prestigious technology transfer office posed the following question to me: “Our TTO is not willing to grant an indemnification to our licensee. In view of this position, to what extent should we discount the…
Patent Valuation – We Can’t Get Enough Of It
Patent valuation, as a subject, is still “hot”. When in LinkedIn a question was posted on how to value IP[1] a large number of comments, suggestions and ideas appeared. The overall conclusion – it is fair to say – is…