|
Using intellectual property to drive your success, strategically and globally:
creating and capturing value; using intellectual assets in more ways and more effectively;
out-smarting your competition; winning disputes; leveraging business strategy;
turning threats into opportunities and opportunities into reality.
Time Warner — filed under Companies
Contributed by ANONYMOUS
Delhi High Court dismissed a petition by J K Rowling and
Warner Brothers against a Durga Puja pandal in Kolkata's Salt Lake area
allegedly replicating Hogwarts Castle. (Spicy IP)
IPLaw360 carried a note last week on the rise of legal outsourcing which is accompanying economic woes in the US.
Coupled with this are the great strides that CPA and its subsidiary, Intellevate have made in outsourcing and streamlining the IP prosecution process.
Here are some ideas for an online system which would further streamline the process and give more control to IP owners when outsourcing the drafting and prosecution of IP Rights:
- Have all communications with IP Offices around the world go through a central address at which correspondence is scanned, coded and forwarded electronically to the relevant people at the company;
- Automatically update a central database with status information each time such correspondence goes into or out of the company;
- Enable the in-house IP team to correspond directly with IP Offices on minor, administrative issues and include software which automatically generates suitable responses, with appropriate attachments to be reviewed be submission;
- Enable the in-house IP team to select individuals or firms to consult on certain aspects of the drafting or prosecution of the IP Right. Thus, a team in India may prepare the first draft of a patent, which is reviewed and slightly amended by one or more other specialists in major jurisdictions before filing.
- Incorporating traditional reminder, letter writing, reporting and IP manageemnt systems into this.
Here is a great article on patent quality from Sara-Jayne Adams at IAM-Magazine - Quality is the key to a bright patent future.
Sara-Jayne interviewed the following people for the article:
- Jonathan Barney, Managing Director of Ocean Tomo
- Alison Brimelow, President of the European Patent Office
- John Dudas, UNder Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO
- Douglas Clark, Managing Partner, Lovells, Shanghai, China
- Carl Horton, Chief IP Counse, General Electric Co
- Tom Ewing, IP Value Added Consultant
- Horacio Gutuerrez, Vice President & Deputy General Counsel, IP & Licensing, Microsoft
- Masanobu Katoh, Corporate VP and President, Law & IP, Fujitsu
- Lisa Kellberg, Corporate VP and Head of Corporate Patents, Novo Nordisk
- Judge Pauline Newman, Judge of the United States Court of Appeals of the Federal Circuit
- Sherry Knowles, Senior VP, Corpoate IP, GlaxoSmithKline
- Chris Mercer, Presidento of the EPI
- Stephen Potter, Director and immediate past chair of the R&D Society (UK)
- Manny Schecter, Associate General Counsel, IP Law IBM
- Peter Spours, Director IP Transactions & Strategy, TomTom
- Marian Underweiser, IP Law Counsel, IP Law Strategy & Policy, IBM
- Margareta Ydreskog, Group Patent Manager, Corporate Strategy & Business Development, Saab
(Sara-Jayne also asked me to add a few thoughts. Let me know what you think.)
|
|
