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Business roles in the knowledgeeconomy are not going to be whatthey once were. The question is:who will drive the change?
At the 11th hour – in fact, on theday before they were due to comeinto force – controversial newUSPTO rules on continuationpractice and claiming were blockedby a court in Virginia
IP rights could help the US find away out of current economicdifficulties. But only if a new classof stakeholder is recognised first
For companies pursuing openinnovation, providing access to IPrights is about business, not goodcitizenship
There are people who claim thatintellectual property makes uparound 80% of many companies’values. They are wrong to do so
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According to a survey of European patent attorneys working in-house and inprivate practice, the two groups have sharply different perspectives on manyaspects of IP management
The inductees into the IP Hall of Fame for 2007 have all helped to establishintellectual property as a cornerstone of the global economy. Over thefollowing pages they look back on their achievements and explore what mayhappen next as the IP world develops
Using result-performance management techniques will enable companiesto organise themselves in a way that facilitates the exploitation ofintellectual capital
Current ways of reporting the value of brands provide investors with fewinsights. It is time to develop new methodologies
Microsoft has decided to throw in the towel and concede defeat in itsantitrust battle with the European Commission. Other IP owners would dowell to look carefully at what it all means to them
Low-cost, volume-based patenting may seem attractive at first sight,but closer examination reveals it to be both a budgetary nonsense anda technology-protection folly
For over three decades,International Game Technology (IGT)has established itself as one of themost recognised slot-machine andvideo gaming machine company,garnering approximately two-thirds ofthe market and moving into the top10 in the Patent Board’s ConsumerElectronics Scorecard this year
Sony Corporation leads the industry,with FUJIFILM Holdings Corporationand Matsushita Electric Industrialremaining in the top three spots
Insights
In September 2007 PoliticalEconomy of Patent Policy Reformin the United Stateswaspublished. Written by FMScherer, Aetna ProfessorEmeritus at the John F KennedySchool of Government, HarvardUniversity, the paper is the latestin a string of attacks on the USpatent system by economists.
Doubts over Kamil Idris’sfuture at WIPO remain.While they do, theorganisation will behamstrung and ineffective
