Intellectual Property Expert Group
Intellectual Property Expert Group
The patent prosecution highway (PPH) is a set of initiatives for providing accelerated patent prosecution procedures by sharing information between offices that have entered into an agreement under the PPH. At present, there are a variety of PPH bi-lateral agreements…
Patent risk managers would love to know which patents could eventually cause potential business disruption or could end up being licensed at high costs and which not. A number of prediction methods are currently used in patent risk management but…
Facing big money problems, Eastman Kodak Co. in July 2011 hired a New York City investment bank to help it shop around a huge cache of digital imaging patents. Such a deal, potentially worth billions, did not come to pass…
The International Conference “IP Service World“, by the Germany based “Management Circle”, organized its 2nd conference this week in Noordwijkerhout (near Amsterdam). Where most IP conferences target IP trial attorneys, trademark practitioners and patent attorneys, this conference aims to provide…
Under the title “The Great Patent Bubble of 2011”, INTIPSA members debate the biggest challenge companies face developing and implementing an IP strategy. How can a market function effectively when 99% of the assets are of very low quality? Will brand…
Speculation is boosting some companies for now; the shortsighted are paying a premium to compete. What hath the Nortel auction wrought? Never before has it been so apparent that the right patents in the right hands (at the right time)…
The patent community has had its major story for months now: the Nortel patent auction. IAM and Joff Wild have been blogging about the auction process. They are surprised there has been no news yet on the outcome of the…
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…
A paper by Dr. Gaetan de Rassenfosse explains how firms can use their patents to finance innovation [1]. He argues that patents aimed at monetization of IP is more important for SMEs than for large companies and reports evidence that…
The most important source of “raw material” for any Patent Department is the inventor community and so, improving the quantity and quality of ideas that are coming from this community should be a role of the highest priority for any…
Running a Corporate IP Department There are a range of systems available to help manage the running of any Corporate IP Department and to help the IP personnel and others involved in the IP processes to perform their tasks effectively…
Traditionally, internal innovation was the paradigm in which most companies operated. Most innovating companies kept their discoveries highly secret and made no attempt to assimilate information from outside their own research and development laboratories. This was driven by the belief…
It is a common belief that lawyers are in a secure profession, because they can profit from bad times as well as good. When times are good, lawyers profit from lucrative deals and investments. When times are bad, lawyers profit…
Intellectual Property rights (IPRs) are valuable assets for any business, possibly among the most important that it has. It is therefore crucial that the associated IP data are also treated well. “Data integrity” are data that are characterised in that…
One of the most essential elements in supporting a global intellectual property (IP) portfolio is the network of IP agents and associates spanning the globe that represent and advise you and your organization – locally within each individual jurisdiction –…
A recent Harvard Business Review article states the following: “Deal making is glamorous; due diligence is not”[1]. The article goes on to say: “That simple statement goes a long way toward explaining why so many companies have made so many…
In 1999 Alan Greenspan, the former head of the US Federal Reserve, delivered a speech at Harvard University entitled “Transcending all else is being principled”. In it he said of reputation “In today’s world, where ideas are increasingly displacing the…
Every now and then the ipeg blog pays attention to innovation. Although some of our readers think this is not something for a patent blog (we recently were commented by a known blogger in the US that ipeg could not…
Assume you are a patent broker. You are being approached by a party who is extremely enthusiastic about his patent, it’s the invention that will change the world, where anyone has been waiting for or that multiple parties use (read:…
In the IP Legal World Top Ten Lists are a staple of a culture obsessed with ranking. The IP legal world (patent attorneys, IP trial lawyers and their European counterparts) are used to do whatever it takes to show up…