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Intellectual Property
the ownership of rights to ideas, designs, and inventions, including copyrights, patents, and trademarks. Intellectual property is protected by law in most countries, and the...
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Protecting New Products with Patents
If your business is in the business of innovating, it is essential that you protect new products by taking out a patent. Patents are granted by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office USPTO to inventors, giving them the right to prevent exploitation of their inventions by others. U.S. patent law...
Tags: patent, intellectual property
Articles 2007-03-27
Intellectual Property Activity By Service Sector And Manufacturing Firms In The UK, 1996-2000
This paper provides evidence from a newly constructed database of UK firms about the extent of their Intellectual Property IP acquisition activities over last few years. Paper focuses on service sector firms, which have not previously been studied, with comparisons for firms in manufacturing and other sectors, such as agriculture....
Tags: Manufacturing, Intellectual Property, Analysis, University Of Oxford, U.K., Patent, Research & Development, Business Operations
White papers 2005-12-01
Intellectual Property In The Global Pharmaceutical Market
With deadlines for compliance with aspects of the TRIPS Trade Related Intellectual Property Rights agreement approaching, the debate over the most efficient way to balance rewards to innovators and the needs of society within a patent structure wages on. The current system awards monopoly market power to an inventor for...
Tags: Human Resources, Business Operations, Research & Development, Benefits, Intellectual Property, Patent
White papers 2005-09-13
Is The Cure Worse Than The Disease? An Overview Of Patent Reform Act Of 2005
On June 8, 2005, Representative Lamar Smith, Chairman of the House Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property, along with several co-sponsors, introduced H.R. 2795. Popularly known as the "Patent Reform Act of 20051," the Patent Reform Act is an omnibus bill which overhauls multiple aspects of patent practice....
Tags: Patent, Overview, Stein McEwen & Bui, Patent Reform Act, Intellectual Property, Internet, Research & Development, Business Operations
White papers 2005-09-06
'Intellectual Property Right' Or 'Intellectual Monopoly Privilege': Which One Should Patent Analysts Focus On?
This paper challenges the existing mainstream law and economic literature arguing that patents do not, generally, confer monopolies, but that they should be understood and analysed as competitive properties. Such views do not provide vital reservations for the tightening, and increased enforcement, of the patent system that we are currently...
Tags: Patent, Intellectual Property Right, University Of London, Monopoly, Intellectual Property, Research & Development, Business Operations
White papers 2005-05-10
THE OTHER IP.
Byline: DONNY JACKSON English author and philosopher Sir Thomas Barton opined in the late 16th century that knowledge is power. A more contemporary perspective embraced by today's movers and shakers suggests that power yields moneymaking oppo Byline: DONNY...
Tags: company, industry, intellectual property, IP, patent, Qualcomm Inc., technology, wireless
Research articles 2007-02-01
Business Method Patents: Adding to the Franchisor's Arsenal
Franchisors have long packaged a business model along with a collection of intellectual property that includes service marks, trademarks, trade names, logos, trade secrets and copyrighted materials (e.g., operating manuals, product information sheets and advertising materials), in order to form an attractive business opportunity to potential franchisees. In order to...
Tags: Trade Secret, Intellectual Property, Arsenal, Reed Elsevier Inc., Patent, Research & Development, Business Operations
White papers 2003-09-23
Fair Division of the Profit From Collaboration in Markets for Intellectual Property
Many inventions and works of authorship incorporate significant features of earlier patented inventions or copyrighted works. The movie producers incorporate copyrighted music into movie soundtracks and copyrighted novels into screenplays. There are two intellectual property law features that have a critical influence on cumulative creation: a later creation may infringe...
Tags: Creation, Intellectual Property, Research & Development, Business Operations, Patent, Boston University, Movie, Collaboration
White papers 2003-06-16
The TRIPS Agreement: Who Owns And Controls Knowledge And Resources?
The discussion conducted in this article is about the proponents of TRIPs and other systems of private intellectual property rights, which asserts that patents are essential for research and development. Without royalties guaranteed through IPRs, pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies argue that they could not afford to invest in the search...
Tags: Patent, Knowledge, Agreement, Cancun Ministerial Meeting, Intellectual Property, Biotechnology, Research & Development, Strategy, Business Operations, Management
White papers 2003-01-01
AN EMERGING MARKET: Hidden assets; Intellectual property becomes a hot commodity.(Technology)(discusses Boeing Co. and other companies' approaches)
Byline: JULIE JOHNSSON Mired in a tough economy, Chicago companies are exploring new ways to wring cash from their intellectual property: buying, selling and trading the ideas that underpin their businesses. It's an emerging market whose growth Byline: JULIE JOHNSSON...
Tags: asset, Boeing Co., Companies, company, emerging market, intellectual property, patent
Research articles 2003-02-10
Towards An Integrated Theory Of Intellectual Property
This article addresses a curious gap in the theory of intellectual property. One of the central dogmas in both the legal and economic literatures is that patents, copyrights, and trademarks constitute separate forms of protection, each serving different purposes and designed to operate independently of the others. By challenging this...
Tags: Protection, Patent, Theory, Social Science Electronic Publishing Inc., Intellectual Property, Research & Development, Business Operations
White papers 2002-04-01
Patently Correct IP Risk Management
Companies that concentrate all of their intellectual asset management efforts on protecting patents from infringement ignore much more costly threats connected to their intellectual property portfolios. The greatest risk is not having an IP management strategy in place — an omission that can lead to loss of market share. Many...
Tags: Patent, Asset, Intellectual Property, IP, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Research & Development, Asset Management
White papers 2002-01-01
Symbol and Intermec resolve disputes.
By Staff Intermec and Symbol Technologies , two pioneers in auto-ID and data capture, recently settled all outstanding intellectual property IP disputes in an agreement whereby both vendors cross-licensed certain patents, and entered int By...
Tags: intellectual property, Intermec Technologies Corp., patent, Symbol Technologies Inc.
Research articles 2006-08-01
Need help protecting your patents?
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office USPTO in Washington, D.C., is reaching out to small businesses to help them protect their intellectual property assets--such as patents--and prevent the theft of their ideas and ... The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office USPTO in Washington, D.C., is...
Tags: intellectual property, patent, small business, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
Research articles 2005-11-01
NEC Selects Drakes Bay as Exclusive Agent for Digital Watermarking Intellectual Property Licensing; Includes Fundamental Ingemar J. Cox Patents in Spread Spectrum Watermarking Techniques
SAN FRANCISCO -- Drakes Bay Company announced today it is the exclusive agent for licensing an extensive intellectual property portfolio in digital watermarking owned by NEC Corporation. The digital watermarking patent portfolio consists of 48 granted U.S. and international patents and 24 patent applications for embedding and detecting digital watermarks...
Tags: agent, intellectual property, NEC Corp., patent, technique
Research articles 2006-03-20
Vignette Granted Patents for Innovative Technologies; Intellectual Property Focus Part of Company's Leadership Strategy
AUSTIN, Texas -- Vignette Corp. (Nasdaq:VIGN) today announced that it has been awarded patents for its cache management and message pacing methods, enhancing its rich portfolio of intellectual property worldwide. Vignette was recently awarded patents by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for its Method and System for Optimizing Resources...
Tags: intellectual property, patent, strategy, Vignette Corp.
Research articles 2004-07-06
Cat eyes high-tech patents. (New & Trends).(Caterpillar Inc.)(Brief Article)
Known more for its bright yellow earthmoving equipment than its high-tech inventions, construction equipment giant Caterpillar Inc., Peoria, Ill., has formed a technology licensing group that will market and license its intellectual properties to o Known more for its bright yellow earthmoving equipment than...
Tags: Caterpillar Inc., intellectual property, patent, technology
Research articles 2002-04-01
DuPont donates patents to University. (News).(University of California)(Brief Article)
DuPont is donating key intellectual property, including patents, trademarks, and technical information, to the University of California, San Diego. The university's engineering faculty will develop the intellectual property for applications ranging DuPont is donating key intellectual property, including patents, trademarks, and technical information,...
Tags: DuPont Co., intellectual property, patent, technology, University of California
Research articles 2002-01-01
Patents.(Books)
The American Bar Association (Chicago, IL) has published "The Patent Handbook," a guidebook that summarizes the basic concepts of patent law, the patent system, how patents interrelate with other forms of intellectual property, and the vari The American Bar Association (Chicago, IL) has published "The ...
Tags: Books, intellectual property, patent
Research articles 2005-03-31
Digimarc Issued 13 New Patents Covering Audio, Video, Digital Images and Print Materials; Intellectual Property Portfolio Grows to 77 Patents
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Tags: Digimarc Corp., digital image, intellectual property, patent, video
Research articles 2002-11-26
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