IP ownership

At least one person, ie me, is getting something out of this exercise. It does seem to be adding some traffic to our blog though. I do often wonder who is looking at our stuff on the main site or on the blog. We found out when we registered the ipva domain that the ipva is the Brasilian equivalent of the drivers vehicle licensing authority in the UK…great for traffic, poor for the time they spend on the site though when they’ve worked out that it is not what they were looking for. We seem to get most of our visitors from the UK and USA, Lots of views, not too many comments though. Intriguing—-who are you anonymous lot?

 Week 3 has been a lot of fun. Did I mention that I love what we do?

 We put Rosie™ out into the field a few times in presentations this week. She just doesn’t let us down and this week she made her way into two proposals and three education sessions. I’ll share how her name came about at some stage.

 But most of the week was taken up in closing out the ownership issue we’ve been busy on for the last few weeks. It is a little scary to me that we used to see ownership as an optional diligence area. Post eBay and Skype though, I see it as maybe more critical than reviewing IP assets or risks. Most errors on the assets side can at least often be fixed or aren’t business fatal. Few companies I guess are taken out of the business if they miss a few patent filings, even if they fall foul of a competitor patent. But ownership issues could and should be fatal.

 We’re due to close out two projects this week. Both very pleasing results and we have got some warming compliments. I think with Mike and Luc on board we have gone up a notch or two in the quality of what we do.

 Three more are due to kick off this week and all three excite me. One in particular gets us to apply pretty much all of knowledge and expertise learned in the past 4 years. What more could a man want than a lifetimes’ purpose.

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