IP Strategy sits at the crossroads of technology, law, and business. With a focus on competitive advantage, IP Strategy can be aligned with Business Strategy to create and exploit powerful positioning and meaningful differentiation within a competitive landscape.
Continue reading “IP Strategy Roundup (16 June 2020)”Do you develop technology as an independent contractor? Here’s how you should think about defining your IP ownership, assignments, and licenses
There are a lot of moving parts when you start working together with another party on joint research & development or in an independent contractor relationship. One of the trickiest aspects is defining who will own the IP developed during the engagement. In fact, the IP ownership question can dictate the value of the contract or, alternatively, kill the deal if the parties can’t agree on a mutually acceptable approach.
Here is a list of options to help you think about several of the ways IP can be developed, owned, assigned, and licensed during an independent contractor or joint R&D project.
Continue reading “Do you develop technology as an independent contractor? Here’s how you should think about defining your IP ownership, assignments, and licenses”Ready for Patents? Here’s your Quick Start Guide
You’ve got some innovative ideas, a technology team, or just an inventive approach to life. Now you want to know how to start the patent process. This Quick Start Guide will get you pointed in the right direction.
WHAT TYPE OF PATENT? UTILITY, DESIGN, OR PLANT
Continue reading “Ready for Patents? Here’s your Quick Start Guide”Intellectual Property Strategy – An Integrated Approach to Aligning your IP Assets with your Business Strategy
What is an Integrated Intellectual Property (IP) Strategy?
In the broadest sense, an Integrated IP Strategy refers to a comprehensive strategy that accounts for the specific details of a particular entity and its IP opportunities. This will be different for every company, creator, and IP owner because strategy is, in its very essence, built on market and resource heterogeneity, rather than homogeneity. Consequently, the optimal IP strategies for two different entities, technologies, market, or even business divisions within the same company will uniquely correlate with those circumstances that are unique to each situation.
Continue reading “Intellectual Property Strategy – An Integrated Approach to Aligning your IP Assets with your Business Strategy”What is Competitive Advantage?
In a prior post, I explained why the inherent characteristics of intellectual property assets (patents, for example) don’t automatically translate into competitive advantage of a business. Competitive advantage requires more than just having exclusive rights to a technology. In fact, competitive advantage is much, much more than that.
Continue reading “What is Competitive Advantage?”Four of the Fastest Fixes for your Patent Portfolio
Everyone is in crisis mode right now. Even businesses that are doing still generating acceptable revenues should recognize these turbulent times as an opportunity to implement a couple quick fixes to your patent portfolio. In case your portfolio growth has been lacking direction lately and growing without enough direction and deliberation, here are a few of the fastest ways to begin right-sizing your portfolio and controlling your costs.
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