It ought to be a given that the IP portfolio should align with the salient benefits that salespeople for the associated products and services sell.  For example, if salespeople use safety...

Recognition of the importance of IP and its potential use (and abuse) has improved dramatically over the past few decades. However, there is still a good deal of general public confusion...

If you encountered an alien from another world and wanted him to understand the concept of what a word is, chances are you would put words (and their object or idea...

Perhaps for the first time in history, humankind has the capacity to create far more information than anyone can absorb, to foster far greater interdependency than anyone can manage, and to...

A fantastic new resource dropped into our mailbox recently – it’s the second edition of International Copyright by Paul Goldstein and Bernt Hugenholtz (the one with the green cover). In our...

As we announced at the beginning of the month, to take advantage of all of us getting together as part of our annual team retreat, we have decided to organize a...

Guest post by Marc Kaufman Determination of the quantitative value of patents has been elusive.  Complex statistical analysis and accounting methods have been applied to patents in an effort to ascribe...

How would you react if you were forced into a commoditised positioning? Check out these car rental companies and what happens to them at airports around the world for just a...

Just how far can you protect your IP once you’ve licensed it out? Here’s a shining example. What are your thoughts? On January 24th, 2011, Huawei Technologies, Co., Ltd. (“Huawei”), a...

Any organization benefits from two core resource pools that it can tap into to gain competitive advantage and long term sustainable growth. These are: physical assets and intangible assets (that form...