Intellectual Property Expert Group
Intellectual Property Expert Group
CIP Forum 2009, currently held in Goteborg, Sweden, covers lot of IP management issues from valuation, open innovation and the relationship with IP, and of course contributions where the Patent Troll prominently appears as the bad guys. No IP forum…
How come licensing by European companies is largely lagging behind the US? A March 2009 OECD Study on licensing practice by European and Japanese patent holders tells the story. Zuniga and Guellec published a their study [1], “Who Licenses out…
Chinese utility model holder Chint completed its major victory at the Zhejiang High People’s Court in Chint v. Schneider over French competitor Schneider through an unprecedented $ 23 million settlement (RMB 157 million), approximately half the damages awarded two years…
Investment in IP as an asset class has grown significantly over the last years, however it is still in its infancy. Analysis of historical returns remains difficult, as limited data are available. Therefore, it is challenging to predict how the…
Auctions to sell assets have been known for long. Goethe proposed the publisher Vieweg in 1797 to sell his manuscript of his poem Hermann and Dorothea via an auction (later to become known as “a second-price auction”). In IP no…
Would a change in accounting rules, as they are now being discussed, have an impact on the role IP can play as a collateral for (new) debts? The current financial crisis has brought about a call for easing the accounting…
We noticed over the last two years an increase in investment houses to invest in IP as an asset class showing quite interesting and different risk profiles. We continue to see parties tapping on this new interest finding appropriate business…
What is an “IP strategist”? Ratings and “who’s”-lists are published indentifying who qualifies as an IP strategist, notably IAM’s “IAM Strategy 250 – The World’s Leading IP Strategists. Not clear however is what in fact a strategist does or what…
Netherlands is known for its vast knowledge on water technology and water management skills, like off-shore civil engineering, flood control, coastal zone engineering, desalting for drinking water projects and industrial water supply projects. The Dutch battle against the sea resulted…
Last week the Wall Street Journal revealed that a group of tech companies got together to incorporate a new group, called Allied Security Trust. The way it is being described, see the WSJ Law Blog, is that the companies, among…
Now the Irish are voting today on the Lisbon Treaty, and some questions arise whether there will be a vote from the heart or from the brains, we took the opportunity to look into the Lisbon Treaty text to see…
In Europe the heated discussion on business method patents and software patents basically died after the European Parliament rejected the controversial draft directive on the patentability of computer-implemented inventions in July 2005. This vote ended more than three years of…
Two European trademark blogs, MarkenBlog and Class 46 referred to a publication in Germany’s business newspaper Handelsblatt on the effect of the proposed new “Bilanzrichtlinien modernisierungs gesetz” (Accounting Directives Modernizations Law). According to the two blogs this introduces new accounting…
Tomorrow, Monday February 11, Arnaud Gasnier, receives his PhD at Technical University Delft (TU Delft) for a study on efficient patent management (“The Patenting Paradox“) . Gasnier’s study shows that despite a dramatic increase in the number of patents filed…
Associated Press reported this week about Macrovision’s (MVSN) acquisition of Gemstar. MVSN CEO Fred Amoroso commented:“There is a transformation of home entertainment going on and we want to give consumers the ability to find in and easily across a variety…
When the first patent auction by Ocean Tomo was held in San Francisco, it caused a huge media hype in the US. It looks that the next one, in London on June 1, will receive the same attention from European…
Europe’s first Intellectual Property merchant banking, delivering services to monetize IP, whether it are patents, trademarks or copyrights, has its corporate website now in Korean and Japanese, see , 상표, 저작권을 막론한 지적재산의 경제적 효용을 위한 서비스를 제공하는 유럽 최초의…
Intellectual property securitization has had a promising history- from the initial excitement over Bowie Bonds, which securitized David Bowie’s song catalog, and other early deals, followed by a recent lull, during which it was thought the idea was dead. Recently…
Today, in Netherlands financial daily “Het Financieele Dagblad” an article on Europe’s first IP merchant banking group, IPEG and its founder, Severin de Wit.For English translation, click here