The Intellectual Property Audit - Finding What You Have (Part I of V)

Does your organization account for over 80% of its assets? These assets are not bank accounts or physical possessions; they are not even your real estate. They are the product of your organization's collective mind: your intellectual property. Find out how to find and quantify your IP in this article.

Intellectual Property and Copyright Laws

Just as one owns physical property and real estate, Intellectual Property (IP) allows people exclusive ownership of their creativity and innovation. It gives these people control on their innovations for which they are rewarded and encouraged to create further for the benefit of others.

Patent Piracy and International Intellectual Insidious Insanity

Spinning like a top the minds of the members of the Online Think Tank are in constant motion discussing issues from around the Globe and with more energy then the older gentlemen with the slower minds in Davos. It is amazing that the Patent Piracy and International Intellectual Insidious Insanity continues to go on to this day, as technology in many nations is stolen and products suddenly appear on slow boats from foreign shores.

Patent- How Well Protected Are The Patent Holders?

How well are we, the patent holder, protected? For twenty years, patent holders are protected, they say. Exclusive rights have the right to sue an infringer.

Should You Sell Or License Your New Product Or Idea

A patent is your property and as such you have the legal right to do with it as you wish. Generally you would choose to sell your patent if you would...

IPC Classsification

One of the hot topics in the IP world today is IPC reform. Due to be published on 1 July 2005, and to come into effect on 1 January 2006, the eighth version of the IPC classification system (also referred to as IPC 2006) may not seem radically different from the previous IPC7, on first blush. But there are important benefits for patent searchers, attorneys, examiners and IP manager

Patent Map Generation and Reading

Patent Mapping a way to visualize patent mining results that involves clustering or otherwise orienting patent data on a page so that there is meaning in the spatial relationships among the data points. Patent Landscape: graphical representation of how large numbers of patents relate to each other based on keywords, citations, or patent classifications. It is useful in identify trends, determine patent gaps and opportunities, and design around competitors' patents.

Trademarks: When and How to Search and File Trademark Applications

A trademark can be any word, slogan, design, symbol, or even a color, smell, product configuration or a combination of these, used to identify the source of origin of particular goods and services. The trademark serves as a source identifier of your goods and services, to distinguish it from the goods and services of others.

Intellectual Property – Patentability of Computer Programmes - Exclusions

Patenting computer programmes

2006 Trends in Intellectual Patent Rights

The costs to get a patent and the time it takes to get one due to the bureaucracy of the US Patent and Trademark Office is out of control. No longer can small garage inventors afford to get a patent for something they built in their garage that the world really needs.

Intellectual Property

Intellectual property (IP) is a valuable asset to companies in the biotech, life sciences, healthcare, medical technology and related industries. Utility patents are often the most valuable IP belonging to small and emerging companies.

FAQs - Licensing Intellectual Property (IP)

Licensing is a key business strategy. It's a way to maximize the earnings from inventions and creative works.

Intellectual Property Law: Community Trade Marks - Registration - Grounds for Refusal

In the case of CeWe Color AG and Co v Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (T-178/03 and T-179/03), the Court of First Instance rejected CeWe's trade mark applications on the grounds that the marks were merely descriptive and lacked distinctiveness.