How do you resource intellectual property? How is Intellectual Property resourced at your company (Legal, R&D within Business, and R&D from the center/Corp)? How many resources do you have in...
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How do you determine how long to hold on to IP? I am interested in learning how organizations determine when to keep intellectual property and when to give it up. What are the filters or questions...
Join us for our 2020 Virtual Fall Networks Conference! What is the Intellectual Assets Management Network? The Intellectual Assets Management Network (IAMN) is a new offering from IRI. We plan to...
How do you handle IP when collaborating with universities? How do organizations work through the complexities of IP ownership when collaborating with universities in an open innovation environment?...
March 01, 2012
On October 18, 2011, in the case of Oliver Bruestle v. Greenpeace , the European Court of Justice (ECJ) unanimously ruled that no invention resulting from medical research involving the destruc-tion...
March 01, 2013
OVERVIEW: Patent dealers have achieved exceptional growth in scale and scope of operations; today, their approaches to patent value affect intellectual property strategies for companies in many...
September 01, 2014
It is, at this point, a consensus so widely shared as to represent something very like accepted fact: the Western intellectual property system is broken. The net-work of protections and grants that...
September 01, 2014
The pursuit of intellectual property (IP) that can be protected through patents, copyrights, and trademarks has traditionally formed the cornerstone of many companies’ strategies. The general rule of...
September 01, 2014
OVERVIEW: As 3D printers become more widely available, additive manufacturing will challenge the traditional forms of intellectual property (IP) protection in a signiï¬ cant way. This paper presents...
September 01, 2014
OVERVIEW: We discuss the challenges of managing university intellectual property (IP) for applications in diverse settings that are often inadequately served by standard IP management approaches...
September 01, 2014
OVERVIEW: This article addresses one of the many unexplored challenges associated with closing open innovation—the intellectual property (IP) disassembly problem. This is the problem of disentangling...
September 01, 2014
Jim Bessen talks with James Euchner about the role of patents in encouraging—or discouraging—innovation. Patents have been a cornerstone of our economic system; their continued existence has been...
Monday March 07, 2016 – Wednesday March 09, 2016
Six networks meet for two days of interactive discussions. Highlights include Research working sessions and guest speaker, John Bacon, on lean startup principles.