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IP strategy

IAM 250: world interactive map

September 8, 2009

In our last post I developed some word clouds of out of the firms and professional associations out of the data in the IAM 250 listing of the world’s leading IP strategists that Joff and co. kindly set me up with. Next up, I’ve turned all of the world’s leading IP strategists as ranked by [...]

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IP ownership issues not just for Skype and eBay

August 27, 2009

The recent Skype / eBay story around ownership flags up all sorts of things in what we see in our line of work around IP strategy: IP ownership issues as a rule are always present, and can be very, very costly to fix (but very cheap to fix if caught early). A short Timeline 2001 [...]

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IP strategy at Northwestern

August 17, 2009

I’ve got an email alert for “IP strategy”, and had an interesting hit come up related to our ongoing discussion of teaching the fundamentals of IP in a business context. This time, not in an MBA programme, but rather as part of training lawyers. The law school at Northwestern offers a concentration in “Business Enterprise” [...]

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iPhone strategy? Build a product ecosystem.

July 14, 2009

With the release of the iPhone 3GS, it’s got me thinking more about Apple and IP again, especially as my neighbour down the hall at ipVA towers just acquired a new iPhone and I helped him get it set up. As you’ve no doubt figured out, I’m a big Apple and iPhone fan, which is [...]

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International Patent Litigation: A Review

April 23, 2009

The “flat world” (as Thomas Friedman put it) and the ease of global communication and transport bring with it more global business, and more global business means international disputes. In the IP world, this is no truer than in the realm of patent litigation, with its expense and potentially high stakes. International Patent Litigation by [...]

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Broken IP business structures

April 8, 2009

Andrew and I recently completed an article for Managing IP on Broken IP structures for the April issue, which is now out. Subscribers (including trial users) can now see the article up on the Managing IP site. The seeds from this article were planted back at the 2008 IP Business Conference in Amsterdam, when a [...]

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Building an IP strategy reading list

March 23, 2009

One thing I’ve been informally working on is building out a reading list on Intellectual Property strategy.  I know that there are a quite a few books out there dealing with (specific) aspects of the topic, as well as numerous articles in industry publications and law reviews, but what lies at the core? What materials [...]

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New databases and cooperation ahead in Europe?

March 2, 2009

Following up from the Managing IP Webinar on Catalysing the European Market, (which you can watch the replay) we discussed about a whole range of ideas in looking at the European (and global) market for Intellectual Property Services. I especially liked Benoit‘s slide on the IP ecosystem in Europe, which had both IP Brokerage and [...]

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DMCA and Apple’s iPhone – IP strategy

February 19, 2009

Apple uses DRM within its iPhone to help control the iPhone developer application community.  Apple uses the terms in its SDK to limit how and what gets developed for the iPhone. It then controls what programs make it into the Application Store via iTunes via an application process. All this amounts to protection involving contract [...]

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ARM and IP

February 17, 2009

Great article in the Times yesterday about ARM, including an interview with CEO Warren East: Warren East: ARM believes its strength lies in sharing. ARM is doing well, despite the current economic crisis, largely due to thinking well ahead in terms of the next generations of product. ARM relies heavily on R&D and licensing as [...]

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