Intellectual Property Expert Group
Intellectual Property Expert Group
For his study “Digital Business Management”, Daniel Burkhardt carried out a survey as part of his master thesis “What smart requirements and expectations do start-ups have of (potential) investors in the various stages of development?” (link to the original German…
“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…
Suppose you wish to sell your house. Since you seek to sell your house “as-is”, you want to minimize your investment in the selling process and elect not to spruce up your house. To avoid paying a real estate agent…
Transfer pricing is probably the most important issue in international corporate taxation. In taxation and accounting, transfer pricing refers to the rules and methods for pricing transactions between enterprises under common ownership or control. A transfer price is the price…
Intellectual property assets (IP Assets), primarily patents and software, have been the driving force behind high tech companies, but often times investors fail to understand their unique value as strategic business assets. Investors tend to focus on the defensive value…
Recently the Dutch financial newspaper “Het Financiele Dagblad” spent an article (” (“spin-offs rely on deep pockets University holding“) on how (un)successful Dutch universities have been with their academic spin-offs, how many have been able to actually provide enough starting…
On Tuesday February 2, 2016 IPEG Consultant Severin de Wit gave a Workshop for the Netherlands Association of Insolvency Attorneys (Insolad). The presentation for that workshop “Intellectuele Eigendom en Insolventie” is in Dutch and can be found here (for videos,…
A trade secret is a formula, practice, process, design, instrument, pattern, commercial method, or compilation of information that is not generally known or reasonably ascertainable by others, and by which a business can obtain an economic advantage over competitors or…
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,…
Intangible property is one of the most important areas of Transfer Pricing at the moment. Today, intangible property generally represents between 40 and 80 percent of ‘value-add’ of multinational enterprises (MNEs), making it a key component of a MNEs value-chain.…
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…
Now the master of new consumer technologies, Steve Jobs, announced his resignation on Wednesday as Apple CEO, attention is also given to the intellectual property aspects of Apple’s success. Mr. Jobs’s say over the minute details of Apple’s products is…
Once the iconic Main Street of the advertising industry, Madison Avenue has quietly evolved into a center for Manhattan’s emerging intellectual property businesses. Don Draper, flamboyant Mad Men creative director, however, needn’t worry about the new neighbors cramping his style. They’re too…
In the rapidly changing economy of today, the tangible property of a company is becoming less important than an intangible property which is very often a company’s most important, if not the only, valuable asset. Nora Wouters highlights the possibilities…
Economists have studied the relationship between patents and M&A activity but there is remarkable lack of data to show which role, if any, patents play in M&A transactions. Antti Saari, wrote his master’s thesis for his Finance study at the…
the IPEG blog started in 2005 as a hobby project, as part of a consultancy of 19 intellectual property subject matter experts. IPEG now reaches over 39,000 unique visitors a month, all intellectual property professionals and those interested in IP.…
In financial difficult years every CFO is eager to listen to ideas to turn IP in their companies’ intangible assets into savings or better, cash. Of course monetization of unused patent portfolios is an option but this is very difficult…
Over the years patent build up could go without repercussions for the patent “market”. Let us say the market for supply and demand for patent rights. Initially, during the 1980s and early 1990s this was because Japanese, Taiwanese and Korean…
After the financial crisis and subsequent downturn of the economy as a whole one would think that old school financial products are “out” and financial creativity is “in”. However, Morgan Stanley unveiled earlier this month a US$ 250 million IP…