October 16, 2019
Succeeding in Digital Partnerships for Data In recent years, data from outside sources has become increasingly available, affordable, and easy to integrate using APIs. However, with that availability...
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Intellectual Asset Management
October 05, 2018
Innovation in today’s world requires a different approach because more often than not the solutions are much less obvious. Xinova partners to share the risk of ideas, capital, prototyping and...
May 01, 2004
As a result of recent accounting rule changes and the enforcement implications of the Sarbanes Oxley legislation, fair market value of intellectual property (IP) is now reported in greater detail on...
January 01, 2004
Company leaders, CFOs, the stock market, and the Federal Accounting Standards Board have begun to realize what CTOs and marketers have always known: the greatest driver of value in a company is its...
May 01, 2005
Strategic inventing is a relatively obscure approach to product development whereby products are designed with an emphasis on strategic positioning of intellectual property. Traditional R&D and...
March 01, 2005
Intellectual assets are fundamental to the operation of technology-intensive firms. Companies skilled at managing intellectual property as a business strategy protect the core of the business while...
January 01, 2005
Although many companies today are exploring ways to extract value from their patent portfolios, most use ad hoc approaches that are inefficient and lead to disappointing results. Leading firms, on...
January 01, 2006
Disputes or uncertainty over patent rights can impede negotiation of a collaborative research agreement or create ill will during alliance implementation. However, prospective collaboration partners...
March 07, 2016
Patent searching overview and software solutions Presented by: Simon Carr Spring 2016 https://www.pathlms.com/iri-learningcenter/events/485/slide_presentation...
March 07, 2016
How do IP leaders manage for business growth and costs? How does an intellectual property program ensure alignment with the business? How to get greater value and participation from Inventors?...
September 12, 2016
Overall IP strategy, focus on patents, what to do about competition Presented by: Thomas Lunde and Ryan Kaatz Fall 2016 https://www.pathlms.com/iri-learningcenter/events/485/slide_presentation...
July 01, 2007
Industrial research institutes used to be government-financed organizations with mandates to advance industrial technology and improve economic competitiveness. Good R&D people were assembled and...
March 01, 2007
Intellectual property rights (IPR) protection is a big concern for multinational corporations (MNCs) deciding where to locate their overseas R&D units. The top management team of an MNC must know...
March 01, 2007
Companies and their shareholders stand to benefit from consistently developing and promoting their intellectual property portfolios with a structured IP story. An IP story shows how a company...
March 01, 2007
Reflect back briefly on what was considered good manufacturing management circa 1960 and what we expect today. Prior to the quality movement, manufacturing operations were based heavily on intuition...
Examine the changing landscape of defensive IP strategies companies use to fight trolls with Ken Seddon, LOT Network Inc. Sponsored by IRI’s Intellectual Assets Management Network (IAMN). https://www...