global ip strategy

Is a Patent Really Defensive?

March 19, 2012 05:25

I have often compared patents to castles when discussing high stakes invalidation exercises.  Some are inherently stronger than others, but given enough resources, none of them are invulnerable.  Castles, like patents, are often viewed as defensive structures.  So it was interesting to hear a...

The core of an IP Strategists work…

March 06, 2012 09:44

“And the core of the strategist’s work is always the same, discover the crucial factors in a situation and design a way to coordinate and focus actions to deal with them.”  (Richard Rumelt  in the June 2011 McKinsey Quarterly.) I think this is a great summary – it gets to...

America Invents Act – Filing and Disclosure Strategies

October 13, 2011 06:00

Those of you who subscribe to Hal Wegner’s IP news update emails will have recently received an email enclosing a very brief synopsis of how the “New Law” of first-to-file (or more accurately first inventor-to-file) can impact patent applications filed after March 15, 2013, even if an earlier...

If You Want It, Then There’s a Way to Get It

September 27, 2011 06:54

All the IP in the world is potentially available to help you advance your business.  This includes IP owned by customers, partners, and competitors.  How you make this so depends upon your associated strategy.  For example, if your competitor has IP that you would like to have and has been...

The invisible hand of the intellectual market

September 20, 2011 09:50

While recently reading a post at the excellent IAM blog about the acquisition of Core Wireless Licensing (a Luxemburg based company established by Nokia and holding 400 patents families related to wireless technology) by MOSAID (a Canadian NPE) I came across this sentence: “Critics of NPEs…...