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Deals are important, but they are not the principal drivers of IP value
We are all back from Boston now after last week’s IP Business Congress (see reports here, here and here) and we are now going through the feedback we have had from delegates. Overall, it looks as if most of the 600-plus who attended found the event very worthwhile, both in terms of content and networking opportunities. There are criticisms and nits too, just as there always are, and we will look at these carefully so that we can make next year in Amsterdam even better; but, in ...
Posted by Joff Wild, IAM Magazine on 17 June 2013 @ 6:31PM
Tie-up between Mumbai investors and IP advisory group shows India the way to go
Mumbai Angels, an Indian angel investment group, recently announced a tie-up with Inolyst, the IP advisory, licensing and monetising services business. The aim of the partnership is to help Indian start-ups become organisations that are capital-efficient, strategic about IP and have the potential to generate solid returns. This blog has previously reported on the deficit of skilled IP intermediaries in China, but it is also an issue that India will need to deal with over the coming ...
Posted by Seher Hussain, IAM Magazine on 17 June 2013 @ 8:22AM
English-speaking countries among best for EPO quality; Germany and Japan lag, says OECD study
The OECD has produced a new working paper that seeks to shed more light on the thorny subject of patent quality. Measuring Patent Quality: Indicators of Technological and Economic Value identifies a number of ways in which the quality of patents can be measured and explores each of them, as well as providing rankings per economy (country) and industry sector. However, this is not a comparison of patents granted by different patent offices. Instead, it looks at the quality of patents ...
Posted by Joff Wild, IAM Magazine on 15 June 2013 @ 1:47PM
Litigators in England well-placed to become the NPE go-to guys under new EU patent regime
Experts suggested that patent litigators based in England could be the counsel of choice for many Unified Patent Court (UPC) plaintiffs at a debate on litigation finance held in London last week. Panellists at the discussion, held at the offices of litigation finance and insurance broker The Judge, suggested that recent civil litigation costs reforms in the United Kingdom and the increasing sophistication of the country’s litigation funding market could make the services of ...
Posted by Jack Ellis, IAM Magazine on 14 June 2013 @ 1:00PM
ZTE bets that a demonstrable commitment to IP will pay handsome dividends
This week saw ZTE announce a worldwide patent-licensing agreement with Dolby Audio Technologies for patents covering High-Efficiency Advanced Audio Coding, a crucial technology used in many smartphones. This move follows the company’s announcement earlier this year of another licensing agreement with Microsoft relating to patents covering the Android/Chrome platform. These deals, alongside other developments, indicate that despite its on-going battles with the US government, ZTE ...
Posted by Seher Hussain, IAM Magazine on 13 June 2013 @ 8:46AM
IPBC day 3: the CIPO role, deal volume and values, the nature of invention and more
The final instalment of our reports on events in and surrounding this year's IP Business Congress: The CIPO role – A debate on the motion “This house believes that the only way that chief IP officers can do their jobs as effectively as possible is to report directly to the CEO” produced what I thought was a surprising result, given that the exchanges took place in front of an IPBC crowd. When moderator Terry Ludlow of Chipworks called for the final vote, the team ...
Posted by Joff Wild, IAM Magazine on 12 June 2013 @ 3:18PM
NPE and operating company to merge in new-style structure that could suit changing times
What looks to be a new kind of IP monetisation entity will become a reality next month should a shareholder vote scheduled for 20th June approve a proposed merger between NPE Lexington Technology Group and the NASDAQ-quoted speciality packager and authentication provider DSS Inc. As far as I can tell, this would be the first merger between an NPE and an operating company. The new outfit will take the DSS moniker and earlier this week I spoke to LTG’s Jeff Ronaldi and Peter ...
Posted by Joff Wild, IAM Magazine on 07 June 2013 @ 1:11PM
Governments can’t force IP on anyone, but they can create a climate in which it can thrive
The Malaysian government recently announced a commitment of $65.4 million towards an IP financing plan aimed at helping SMEs use patents as collateral in the marketplace. The Director General of the Intellectual Property Corporation of Malaysia, Datuk Azizan Mohamad Sidin further explained the government’s position, saying: “We are steadfast in helping small and mid-sized businesses develop their IPs into a source of new wealth creation. They have the option of using IP ...
Posted by Seher Hussain, IAM Magazine on 04 June 2013 @ 12:54PM
High-profile US Commission confuses IP theft with a lack of IP strategy
Chinese entities are principally responsible for IP theft worth the equivalent of $300 billion to the US economy, according to a recently published report put together by the Commission on the Theft of American Intellectual Property, a body made up of a number of high-profile figures, including one time United States Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair and former Republican presidential candidate and ambassador to China Jon Huntsman. Although other countries are also ...
Posted by Seher Hussain, IAM Magazine on 31 May 2013 @ 10:27AM
Maybe blaming 'trolls' is sometimes easier than accepting that you have messed up
Online eyewear vendor Ditto is seeking donations via crowdfunding site Indiegogo in order to finance two patent lawsuits in which it is the defendant, it was reported last week. Start-up Ditto provides a service which allows customers to upload 3-D images of their head using a webcam so that they can try on eyeglasses virtually. Two separate lawsuits have been brought by companies that claim this augmented reality technology infringes their patents – and in both instances, ...
Posted by Jack Ellis, IAM Magazine on 30 May 2013 @ 3:08PM
