IP itself has a lifecycle decoupled from the associated product solutions itself.  A patented invention may apply to several product solutions which may be at different phases of their lifecycle.  A...

Having focused on the meaning and creation of learning organizations for a period in my life I can’t help coming back from time to time to thinking about organizations as living...

A trend of industry over the last several decades has been to decouple innovation from manufacturing and move manufacturing to regions of the world that have lower labor costs.  While this...

Here is Think IP Strategy’s weekly selection of top intellectual property news breaking in the blogosphere and internet.   Highlights this week included: CAFC confirms patent eligibility of isolated DNA: AMP...

In my Duke University Army ROTC class in 1985, I received a copy of a book titled The Defense of Duffer’s Drift written in 1903 by a Major General Sir Ernest...

Here is Think IP Strategy’s weekly selection of top intellectual property news breaking in the blogosphere and internet.   Highlights this week included: Google to drop search rankings of sites with...

We’re putting together the final touches on our latest book: ’50 Intellectual Property Mistakes and how to fix them’. We’ve taken the now-famous ’33 make that 43 IP Mistakes’ post, added...

There is no doubt that CEOs are gaining a greater perspective on IP.  There is also no doubt that the key question a CEO will want to know about IP is...

When do you know to stop an endeavor?  History is replete with stories of individuals and nations in politics and war who fought on long after any hope for victory, as...

Here is Think IP Strategy’sweekly selection of top intellectual property news breaking in the blogosphere and internet.   Highlights this week included: Saving High-Tech Innovators from Egregious Legal Disputes Act (SHIELD...