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February 3, 2009

The site’s been down for the past few hours due to upgrading to WordPress 2.7 and the latest theme for Thesis, which our site uses. I’ve done a new install and imported all the content from the previous site, so if anything is missing or broken, please let me know. The look has changed a [...]

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Happy holidays

December 19, 2008

No matter what you celebrate, have a happy holiday season.  We’ll be taking a break here at Tangible IP and with some of the content up on the main ipVA site.  But that doesn’t mean that you don’t get something for the season: We have a new RSS to email service via Feedburner for the [...]

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Russian emoticons and a brief update

December 12, 2008

Via Huffington Post comes this story about a Russian entrepreneur who has trademarked the winking smiley face emoticon sending the IM and texting public into a frenzy. I especially like how he apparently thinks he can treat his “trademark” like a patent and try to require a licence out of anyone who uses it: Oleg [...]

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Intangible Handbook – Patents

November 27, 2008

Just a quick note to say that the section on patents is now up on the ipVA site as part of the Intangible Handbook. And for my US readers, Happy Thanksgiving! I’m celebrating here in the UK by spending most of the day cooking and having some friends and fellow ex-pats over for a full [...]

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ipVA November updates

November 21, 2008

Just a quick few notes about some things happening here at the blog and over at the ipVA site this week. I’m pleased to say that Chris Vigars has joined ipVA as a consultant. We’ve also released another guide as part of the Intangible Handbook — this week’s entry is on copyright. I’ve also done [...]

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Introducing the Intangible Handbook

November 12, 2008

As part of my role as Head of Research at ipVA, I’ve started a series of articles introducing the basics of intellectual property on the ipVA site, which we’re calling the Intangible Handbook. Each article contains an introduction to the concepts involved in protecting intangibles in under 5 minutes (about 500-800 words). We’ve aimed the [...]

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New ipVA site launched

October 2, 2008

The lack of posts here at Tangible IP has been a direct result of lots of late night sessions as part of launching a completely new ipVA website. Check it out at: http://www.ipvalueadded.com Our designers/developers on this project have been Imagebox, and I’d like to thank Anthony and John for all their hard work in [...]

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Welcome to the new ipVA blog

September 1, 2008

This is just an introductory post to the new ipVA blog, Tangible IP, from me your blogger-in-residence, Jordan Hatcher.  I’ve just started at ipVA at the first of July, and am in charge of this blog and the new ipVA web presence (as well as a whole host of other things).  I’m really excited about [...]

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