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IP strategy

IP strategy definition

February 11, 2009

I‘ve been doing a lot of writing over the past six weeks about IP, IP strategy, and how it relates to businesses, including for an upcoming article with Andrew for Managing IP. In the process, I found that there wasn’t any short and simple definition of “IP strategy”. Here is my proposed definition of IP [...]

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IP strategy events: New York

February 10, 2009

Two interesting IP strategy events, both put on by World Research Group, both in New York, and both featuring Jackie Hutter.  The titles alone are enough to make me want to pack my bags for a trip across the Atlantic: 6th Annual Summit on Monetizing and Maximizing IP,  4-5 March 2009 | New York, NY [...]

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Open innovation at IP Finance

January 9, 2009

At the kind invitation of power blogger and IP impresario Jeremy Philips, I have a guest post up on IP Finance about open innovation in business and what it means from a practical and legal perspective – Open innovation in a business world. From the post: So to the IP lawyer, open innovation means transactional [...]

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IP strategists: Management consultants or lawyers?

December 4, 2008

In keeping up with previous posts on the topic, I’ve been thinking a bit more about what IP strategists are as a profession. Are we management consultants or lawyers? Or is there a “third way”? Patent attorneys in particular are good at achieving specific targets when given – patent widgetX or litigate widgetY, but can [...]

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Malcolm Gladwell – Outliers at LBF

November 25, 2008

I had the good fortune of attending the London Business Forum‘s event with Malcolm Gladwell this morning, where he discussed some of the themes in his latest book, Outliers, and what he’s been thinking about since. Having received a copy of the book only today as part of the event, I can only comment on [...]

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Standards and Intellectual Property

November 24, 2008

This is the first post from Rob Harrison — Rob will become a regular contributor to Tangible IP. You can also follow Rob and issues of IP and money at the IP Finance blog, where he also posts. – JH One of the issues that we deal with on a regular basis is the interrelationship [...]

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IP questions for VCs and PE

November 14, 2008

A quick note to mention that we’ve put out a list of 10 questions related to IP for venture capitalists, private equity, and other investors to ask of their portfolio companies. My personal top three out of this list are: 1. What proportion of business value do IP and intangibles represent for your investment? 2. [...]

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Collaboration and the IP services market

November 10, 2008

This post is expanded from a comment by Andrew and is reproduced here to start the debate on collaboration among IP service providers. — JH When I first met Joff Wild of IAM in September 2003 the market for IP services could best be described as evangelist/very early adopter (in MBA speak). Joff migrated IAM [...]

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Patents as signals

October 29, 2008

When might you need to patent to show off to others but not as part of your core commercial or IP strategy? In my continuing quest to learn IP strategy from the ground up, I’ve been thinking quite a bit about having patents solely as a signal to others about your IP, but for no [...]

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New LinkedIn group for IP strategists

October 24, 2008

I notice with some interest that IP strategist and blogger Duncan Bucknell started an IP strategists group on LinkedIn in early September, and it now has 46 members (as of today).  I wonder, is this the beginning of moves that may lead to an international organisation of strategists as well as setting standards among IP [...]

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