The WIPO 2009 Report – Interesting Patent Statistics & What Do They Imply To Your IP Intelligence Requirements
September 18th 2009 marked the end of a two day international symposium for IP heads by WIPO. Based on the 2009 World Intellectual Property Indicators report by WIPO which was also recently released we can only guess there were a number of important issues to discuss including the impact of the global economic crisis and recession on […]
Patent Licensing in Universities – Extracting value from research investments
Universities in the US encourage researchers with innovative minds to pursue their inventions and invest into patenting promising inventions expecting to generate profits by licensing the developed technology to interested companies. The technology transfer offices of the universities usually get many invention ideas from their researchers and have to decide which ones to invest further time and resources […]
IP Intelligence for Patent Licensing & Enforcement Activity
Most companies hold on to their patents as a defensive means to protect themselves from competition gaining an upper hand from their innovations and development efforts. Their ability to drive maximum revenues for the business comes from their ability to have exclusive access to their innovation and fend off the competition for a stipulated time […]