Those of you who subscribe to Hal Wegner’s IP news update emails will have recently received an email enclosing a very brief synopsis of how the “New Law” of first-to-file (or...
All the IP in the world is potentially available to help you advance your business. This includes IP owned by customers, partners, and competitors. How you make this so depends upon...
Sometimes patents can provide little or no value for a business. They wind up being merely a cost burden. Can organisations avoid generating unwanted IP? For the most part, yes. Of...
Can you really have a cohesive IP Strategy at the corporate level? I don’t think so. Unless of course they are one and the same thing. (Small companies with effectively one...
When planning strategically, you can know what you want to do and raise your chance of succeeding without necessarily knowing exactly how you will do it. You can set a direction...
A common cause of friction in any operation is to have individuals or teams designated to support a business strategy run separate strategies for their own self-interest that do not align. ...
Whether a CIPO, IP Business Manager, Chief IP Officer or other title, what are the key attributes that individual needs to be successful when tasked with developing and implementing a coordinated...
If you have ever seen a blind cave fish, one thing you cannot help to notice is that it looks like a typical fish except that it has no eyes. It...
Millions of dollars are invested every year in protecting new ideas through intellectual property – for many however the strength of these intellectual property rights is still largely misunderstood. Probably the...
On a day in 1970, a well-known comic strip called Pogo had environmental protection as its subject for the day. Upon seeing the environment littered with trash, the character Pogo stated,...
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