TrustTalk, a sister blog by IPEG consultant Severin de Wit, as well as the TrustTalk podcast cover all aspects of trust. As of December 1, 2020, IPEG will keep its readers and followers updated on trust aspects that IPR practitioners…
Cost reductions, lowering risks, and process optimization are subjects that are consistently at the top of the agenda of senior and middle-level executives in IP law firms and companies. We will show how patent renewal payments can further be improved…
An audit is the examination of a specific aspect of an organization, ideally by someone independent of that organization. The purpose of an audit is to provide independent assurance that an organization’s management, governance and processes are operating effectively, and…
Patent claims mapping is a legal and technical method which is used to support critical business decisions. It is about clearly linking a patent and one or more of the claims of that patent to a specific product or a specific component, part, feature or function within that product. Patent product mapping is frequently used to map your patents to your products, to evaluate the level of alignment here, and to help identify the most important patents in your portfolio and the protection they provide to the products in the product offering. Mapping also occurs during the patent prosecution phase to establish which claims should to be taken forward, and which claims not.
This blog looks at the rationale for patent product mapping, the challenges trying to conduct it and some of the approaches and techniques one can employ in order to succeed.
Until recently, the UK did not have the broad scope of protection for patent rights afforded by a doctrine of equivalents. In this article, the author considers whether, having adopted such a doctrine, the UK Courts may have gone too far when implementing it.
While the laws governing trade secrets differ slightly from country-to-country, common among nearly all these laws is that a trade secret is any information that is: Not generally known to the relevant business circles or to the public. The information…
What are the reasons for an increased importance of trade secrets? Law, tax, changes in patent law, trade war, litigation, all that. Read more how these factors interact
In BMM Bulletin 2019-1 (het tijdschrift op het gebied van Merken- en Modellenrecht) wordt onder de titel “Follow the Money” aandacht besteed aan financiële en economische aspecten van intellectuele eigendom, met nadruk op merken. IPEG consultants Pieter Christiaan van Prooijen…
An IP license in its simplest form is an agreement where an IP owner (the Licensor) permits another person (the Licensee) to engage in activities that, in the absence of the IP License Agreement, would infringe the Licensor’s legal rights…
