Finished giving a speech at toastmasters on anti-counterfeiting measures in china. Developing a seminar on the same.
Got: Electronic and Software P…
Got: Electronic and Software Patents: Law and Practice http://tinyurl.com/3fg5zg. Yep, light patent treatise reading. Evaluation to come.
IP Audit Links
IP Audit Links:
- Conducting an IP Audit – IP Toolbox [Australian Government] — – The Australian Government provides a comprehensive step-by-step guide to performing an IP Audit. An IP audit is a systematic review of the IP owned, used or acquired by a company. An audit’s principal goal is to identify all the IP your company may have.
- Don’t leave money on the table: Run an IP audit [Massachusetts Biotech and Technology News] — – An IP audit is a periodic and systematic review of the IP owned, used or acquired by a business. Its purpose is to inventory all IP owned, licensed or acquired by the company, to project the future cost and value associated with each piece of IP, to mine underused corporate assets, to identify any threats to a company’s bottom line, and to enable business executives to devise informed strategies that will maintain and improve the company’s market position.
- An IP Audit Of Spongebob Squarepants [Erik J. Heels] — – Erik performs an informative comprehensive IP audit based on the pretext that Spongebob’s creator Stephen Hillenburg has contacted Erick for advice about protecting his IP related to Spongebob Squarepants.
- Top 5 IP audit mistakes [IP Thinktank Blog] — – #4 “Too much focus on protecting new IP and too little on exploiting or killing what you have.”
- The IP Management Audit: Start Top-down, Then Across [IP Frontline] — – A checklist that every IP audit manager needs as a starting point – the what, where, who and how of initiating a company-wide intellectual property management audit.
- IP Audit – A “How to” Guide. [ WIPO] — – “An IP Audit is defined as a systematic review of the IP assets owned, used or acquired by a business. Its purpose is to uncover under-utilized IP assets, to identify any threats to a company’s bottom line, and to enable business planners to devise informed strategies that will maintain and improve the company’s market position.”
Compiling IP Audit Resources. …
Compiling IP Audit Resources. A How-To:http://tinyurl.com/3kr9mw. Your company performed one? When? What IP do you own? What’s it worth?
Software Patent Links for 2008-09-20
- Bosch, Dupont and Xerox Join Eco-Patent Commons — Bosch, DuPont and Xerox Corporation have joined the Eco-Patent Commons, a business effort to help the environment by pledging environmentally-beneficial patents to the public domain.(tags: Patent)
- Chief Judge: Balski will be Very Significant [Patently-O] Chief Judge Michel is quoted: “One of the most important cases pending with the [Federal Circuit] today is In re Bilski…. ‘It’s a very interesting case and I thought all the judges worked very hard on it,’ says [Chief Judge] Michel. He adds: ‘I think it will be a very significant decision. It probably will have broader scope than either In re Comiskey or In re Nuijten”(tags: Patent Software)
- Take patent policy away from lawyers, says Australian government report [IAM] The courts in Australia, conclude the authors of “Venturous Australia – Building Strength in Innovation” (Chapter 7, pages 83 to 87), have “overturned important ‘gatekeeping’ principles of the patent system that existed until the early 1980s”. In particular, they identify software and business methods as an issue, and state that large companies are using the patent system to build thickets that effectively keep competitors out of markets. Jeff Wild states, “The report may be specific to one country, but there is a lot in it that decision makers in other parts of the world could find attractive and persuasive. All patent owners should think through the implications of that very carefully.” (tags: Software Patents)
- ITC to probe Nintendo Wii patent infringement [Reuters] The U.S. International Trade Commission has agreed to look into Hillcrest Laboratories’ allegations that Nintendo Co Ltd infringed Hillcrest’s patents in making its popular Wii video game. (tags: Patent ITC Infringe Tech)
Previously considered art can …
Previously considered art can establish a substantial new question of patentability for a Reexam. http://tinyurl.com/5w4oyf
Going to ISBA IP Section Counc…
Going to ISBA IP Section Council meeting in Chicago @ 20 S. Clark St., Suite 900.
Preparing the Internet and Com…
Preparing the Internet and Computer Law Subcom. Report for the Illinois State Bar Association IP Section Council meeting Thrus. in Chicago.
Going to DuPage County Bar Ass…
Going to DuPage County Bar Association’s Publication Board meeting to advocate new online publication procedure. http://www.dcba.org/
Considering when its best *not…
Considering when its best *not* to seek a trademark. Read Hugo Macleod’s thoughts on “Digital Nomads.” http://tinyurl.com/5br3tj