Category: Books & Reviews

Patent Portfolio Management: A Practical Guide by Simone Frattasi and Jean-Claude Alexandre Ho is a comprehensive resource designed to provide patent professionals and legal practitioners with practical strategies and tools for managing patent portfol ...

The book “Intellectual Property: The Key to your competitive advantage” is self-published as an e-book by Maria Boicova-Wynants and has 158 pages. Maria is an experienced IP lawyer, IP strategy consultant. The book is aimed at economic dec ...

Does the patent really encourage innovation? This question, that has haunted economists for decades, is important because encouraging innovation is one of the main modern justifications for patents. In fact, the answer to this question is far from bin ...

In this “Origins of IP Management” episode we want to discuss the Paper: John Nash, Equilibrium points in n-person games, Proceedings National Academy of Science 36 (1950) 48-49.  Cannot open the video? Please click: https://www.youtube.com/watch? ...

The book “Effective Intellectual Property Management for Small to Medium Businesses and Social Enterprises: IP Branding, Licenses, Trademarks, Copyrights, Patents and Contractual Arrangements” is a valuable resource for any legal practitioner dealing ...

Intellectual property: An economic asset In a globalized world where competitive advantages are almost instantly competed away, only Intellectual Property rights (IP) can provide durable protection of a company’s economic position. Exclusive IP rights ...

A strategy for collaboration, particularly when innovating together, must consider the manner in which Intellectual Property is distributed within such a collaboration. In this blogpost we share some tools and tips on how to build a tailored, simple t ...

I have the pleasure to review the latest book from Gassmann, Oliver; Bader, Martin A. and Thompson, Mark James – “Patent Management: Protecting Intellectual Property and Innovation“, a comprehensive book that adds to the importance of pate ...

In the IP community, the 360 ° IP strategy with the case studies on the implementation of the IP design approach at the companies Vorwerk, Stöbich, Abus, Wilo, IFM, etc. was very well received. Some of the readers’ opinions are summarized here. ...

An analysis by the University of Mannheim shows that systematic patent management in knowledge-intensive industries such as ITC leads to greater innovation success. The degree of professionalism in patent management and the existence of a documented p ...