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Intellectual Property

ipVA updates, OBEs and upcoming events

February 18, 2010

I realise that things have been a bit quiet on the blog, but behind the scenes we’ve been very busy since the start of the year. First, I’d like to congratulate Mike Barlow, who was awarded an OBE for services in IP – quite an accomplishment!  I’d also like to welcome Martin Howard on board [...]

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Photovoltaic Solar Cells – Patents in Europe

January 6, 2010

There’s an interesting news report over at EE Times Asia on the patent side of photovoltaic panels. Citing a report by Canadian company Semiconductor Insights EE Times notes. The report is US-centric and so I took the opportunity to see if there was any special European angles.  Germany has been very much in the lead [...]

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Spinal Tap and listening to your customers…

December 17, 2009

Capturing the feedback and results from your innovation is a crucial part of designing and implementing any good IP strategy . The brilliant webcomic xkcd reminds us that innovation involves directly listening to your customers. Giving them what they want isn’t just about coming up with new ideas and getting patents — sometimes it’s all [...]

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Technology Transfer at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory

November 18, 2009

I’m spending at few days at the EIROForum meeting on technology transfer in Heidelberg. The EIROFoum is probably not well-known outside part of the scientific community. It groups together European Intergovernmental Research Organisations, such as CERN and EMBL. Gabór Lamm from EMBL’s technology transfer arm EMBL-EM has just given a fascinating lecture outlining technology transfer. [...]

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eBay and Skype-settled

November 9, 2009

It is reported overnight on the newswires that the Joltid and eBay dispute has been settled with the two former Skype founders taking a stake in the new Skype vehicle in return for dropping their claims. It seems like a common sense end to the disputes and Skype v2.0 (or is it 3.0) will no [...]

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A fourth week in the life – Cracking the IP Value Code

November 8, 2009

(thanks Richard Boulton) Phew. What a long long week. In fact October end to end has been hard work every step of the way. I’m not by any means saying that I’m pleased to see the back of it, but it’s been full of lots of ups and quite a few downs. I suppose though [...]

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2010 IP hall of fame nominations

November 2, 2009

It’s that time of year again, and nominations are now open for the IP Hall of Fame. The IP Hall of Fame comes from the folks at Intellectual Asset Management magazine. Don’t just think of someone alive today – hall of fame members include Sir Edward Coke and Thomas Edison, though only the live members [...]

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Nokia and Apple

October 25, 2009

I noticed that Nokia has lost patience with Apple and decided to bring licensing discussions to a head by issuing proceedings. Poor Apple, like RIM, was late into the 2 and 3G Standards game and the incumbents (Nokia, Ericsson and Qualcomm for 3G) are so embedded in the setting of Standards (and by the way [...]

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A week in the life of this IP strategist

October 19, 2009

I thought it would be interesting to start recording a typical week in my life as a lead consultant in ipVA. I’ll try to be true to keeping a weekly record but the ambition may be beyond me. Or if this becomes too mundane or repetitive I’ll stop it. But I do think what we [...]

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Government data, innovation, and UK plc

October 9, 2009

The Open Rights Group blog brings up an interesting point about the Royal Mail, which is in the middle of a round of job cuts and facing strikes by postal workers. Royal Mail sits on a database of all UK postcodes, matched to geo data on where they are all located. This is hugely useful [...]

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