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Licensing is one of the most important and most common transaction formats for commercializing information and information assets today. We live in an... Read More »
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Nishant Boraits quite informative for starters
Jun 30, 2011
The initial purpose of a domain name was to provide an address for computers on the Internet. Just like we have postal addresses for buildings in the... Read More »
When few days back Google Inc. took a step towards the anti-piracy drive, a question was posed if others would join in (http://www.patexia.com/blog/56)... Read More »
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Pedram SameniVery interesting!
Jun 22, 2011
As is commonly known, the internet has revolutionized the neo-age to a great extent. And in the past age, one company that touched the lives of probably every person... Read More »
'Digital Opportunity' is the report prepared by Prof. Ian Hargreaves followed by a six-month review conducted independently, which was commissioned by the... Read More »
The 2011 Special 301 Report was issued by the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) on 3rd May 2011. It is an annual review of the global state of... Read More »
Hacking the Play Station 3
The Play Station 3, a popular Sony gaming console, was said to be a closed, secure system. It might have been before George... Read More »
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Tima Maslyuchenkovery interesting article!
May 25, 2011
Potentially one of the largest judgments ever awarded in a patent infringement case has been overturned on appeal. In the case of Mirror Worlds v. Apple Inc., a ... Read More »
SEB S.A. v. Montgomery Ward & Co., Inc., 594 F.3d 1360 (Fed. Cir. 2010) has served to confuse the state of the law pertaining to induced infringement. The SEB... Read More »
On 8th March 2011, The European Union's Court of Justice (ECJ) opined by concurrence of Full Court that creating a unified patent litigation... Read More »
Should tax strategy patents be banned? If the Patent Reform Act of 2011 is approved, a ban on tax strategy patents will no longer be a discuss point, it will be law... Read More »
In part 1 of this post, we talked about three ways to control and reduce cost in IP departments:
1. Bringing things under control
2. Efficient use of software
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Dan ASome great points here.
Avoiding extensions is a great point. I think having a policy to avoid too many RCEs can help as well - those fees add up.
Third party renewal suppliers give very competitive prices to large companies, but in my experience for small companies it is often cheaper to use the law firm (if the law firm has their own in-house renewals department). Law firms tend to give better service and much prompter advice and help if a renewal is missed as well.
Asking for bills to presented in a spreadsheet is such a great idea, I am surprised I haven't come across it before. Much better than using the e-billing services, such as Datacert or Tymetrix, which lock you in, can cost an arm and a leg, often crash and sometimes charge law firms as well (eventually leading to higher bills or poorer service to the client).
May 24, 2011
The famously heard-about and yet unknown secret formula for the very popular consumer beverage, ‘Coca Cola’ has made news time and again for almost... Read More »
One of the ongoing concerns of Legal or R&D departments is controlling or reducing IP cost while keeping a meaningful rate of patent filing to ensure protection... Read More »
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Anonymous Good points, especially on the patent committees and review meetings. If an outside management software solution is bought, I think it is best to get the decision made close to the ground. By the people who use it - as far as possible. I know of several big companies where the decision was made by the head of legal or IP on the basis of marketing, but the paralegals and attorneys really struggled to use the software afterwards. Some big name packages, Anaqua springs to mind, are incredibly unstable and user unfriendly as well as being rather expensive. Improtech takes a huge amount of work to set up, but once in place is fairly user friendly. The best systems I have come across are those written in-house by a law firm or in-house department. Also beware the integrated package - they often do a lot of things badly.
May 24, 2011
On June 28 2010, the US Supreme Court issued its opinion in Bilski v. Kappos, which is an important opinion on the issue of the patentability of business methods. In the ... Read More »
Recently there has been a lot of debate within the intellectual property industry about reforming the inequitable conduct defense. This debate has now moved from social... Read More »
The time has come for companies to find more innovative ways to avoid disputes over intellectual property. Everything is upside down and wrong way around in the... Read More »