I suspect that most IP Strategists have, at one time or another, used or referenced the Intellectual Capital Pyramid from Edison in the Boardroom (Davis & Harrison, 2001) to try to...
Nature provides useful strategic ideas we can draw upon in IP strategy because principles of strategy are universal. For example, nature tends to abhor inefficiencies unless those inefficiencies are somehow used...
Inadvertent abandonment of IP rights often results from either human error, the lack of a robust deadline docketing system and/or failure in communication between company and IP counsel. More usually however,...
Another truth of classical strategy is that if you try to be strong everywhere, you become strong nowhere. IP portfolios are not exempt from this truth. Comprehensive protection of all the...
On several occasions this last year, we were asked to consult on business initiatives where the groundwork on the marketing plan had already been prepared by a well-recognized and prestigious management...
The strategic principle behind this mistake is one of the classics of strategy. IP is opportunity and not exploiting an opportunity, especially a hard won opportunity, means to make an investment...
One of the ways any professional can sabotage his ability to think and act strategically is to allow unnecessary clutter to impede his planning. It’s a universal problem that can affect...
Global LPO put on by KPO was different from what I had expected and a little light on expected attendance. It did have a feed to a Web audience, and KPO...
Next week I will be on a panel at the Global LPO Conference titled How Can You Outsource Patent Prosecution and Litigation Support with the Cost Benefits of Low Cost Countries...
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...
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