12/15/07

Intellectual Property Technology Exchange - TechEx

Intellectual Property Technology Exchange - TechEx TechEx is the world’s leading source for locating licensable technologies for use by intellectual property, licensing, and business development departments. Sourced from hundreds of Universities and Research Institutes from around the world, TechEx provides the most comprehensive and up-to-date access to breakthrough innovations and global technologies. If your goal is to stay on top of the latest in new innovations, then you need TechEx.

Inventors Digest - The Invention Magazine for Idea People

Inventors Digest - The Invention Magazine for Idea People

Contingency IP enforcement for patent and intellectual property infringement litigation

Contingency IP enforcement for patent and intellectual property infringement litigation: "GPCI is the premier contingency patent enforcement firm in the US, helping independent inventors and small businesses to defend their patents against infringement.* GPCI has successfully enforced its clients' patents against formidable opponents, including IBM, Motorola, TDK and many others, consistently achieving multimillion-dollar settlements and licensing agreements for our clients."

http://www.piug.com/

http://www.piug.com/ - Free Patent Information, Uk Patent Office, Patent Attorney or anything similar, go ahead and browse our comprehensive resource directory.

revenue enhancement - Strategy - Innovation - The McKinsey Quarterly

revenue enhancement - Strategy - Innovation - The McKinsey Quarterly Patents and proprietary processes represent an untapped source of revenue for many companies. McKinsey research shows that in lots of cases, companies could earn 5 to 10 percent of their operating income from the sale or licensing of intellectual property, yet most earn less than one-tenth that.

Patents.Com

Patents.Com they took over patent monkey and plans to offer services similar to delphion but free

PatentMonkey.com - Patent Searching and Easy PDF Downloading - Home

PatentMonkey.com - Patent Searching and Easy PDF Downloading - Home

Search International Patents with PatentCafe ProSearch Semantic Analysis Patent Search Engine - Patent Portfolio Management and Patent Search Service

Search International Patents with PatentCafe ProSearch Semantic Analysis Patent Search Engine - Patent Portfolio Management and Patent Search Service software based IP management solutions

LES - Licensing Executives Society, USA and Canada

LES - Licensing Executives Society, USA and Canada for conferences and committees

IP Law Practice Center

IP Law Practice Center Law.com connects legal professionals to more than 20 award-winning national and regional legal publications online, including The American Lawyer, The National Law Journal, New York Law Journal and Legal Times, and delivers top legal news electronically to a growing national and global audience of subscribers each day on The Newswire.

KuesterLaw Technology Law Resource - Patent Copyright Trademark

KuesterLaw Technology Law Resource - Patent Copyright Trademark

Intellectual Property Owners Association | About IPO

Intellectual Property Owners Association | About IPO: "Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO), established in 1972, is a trade association for owners of patents, trademarks, copyrights and trade secrets. IPO is the only association in the U.S. that serves all intellectual property owners in all industries and all fields of technology."

Patents, Copyrights, Trademarks, Trade Secrets - Pierce Law Center IP Mall - Training Intellectual Property, Commerce, & Technology Professionals Skil

Patents, Copyrights, Trademarks, Trade Secrets - Pierce Law Center IP Mall - Training Intellectual Property, Commerce, & Technology Professionals Skills to Meet Marketplace Needs

ipCapital Group - Intellectual Property Strategy Advisors

ipCapital Group - Intellectual Property Strategy Advisors Interesting case studies for IP strategy.

Main Page - Wex

Main Page - Wex: "a collaboratively built, freely available legal dictionary and encyclopedia."

The Intellectual Property Law Server

The Intellectual Property Law Server: Jobs, Articles, Event days, Forums, IP Commercial Zone listings

Internet Patent News / Source Translation & Optimization Patent Web Site

Internet Patent News / Source Translation & Optimization Patent Web Site Legal resources and tools for surviving the patenting frenzy of the Internet, bioinformatics, and electronic commerce

Accessing the collections

Accessing the collections

11/5/07

yet2.com - A New Kind of Financing for IP

yet2.com - A New Kind of Financing for IP

IP market

IP licensing has grown 70% from 15B to 100B etween 1990 - 1998/ and licensing resources is predicted to top $1 trillion by 2005

S&P 500 $35 trillion in IP

PricewaterhouseCoopers: Taiwan: Services: Legal & IP Services: IP Services

PricewaterhouseCoopers: Taiwan: Services: Legal & IP Services: IP Services

try to do five forces analysis to show business + patent = success

SWAT analysis.

Patent Analysis

Analyzing based on large portfolio of technolgies through attribute clusterting of like technologies based on user defined groups and graphically comparing the overlap with target or competitor portfolios.
- PWC has tool for this IP due delligence

Patent Baristas » Due Diligence Monday: Patents

Patent Baristas » Due Diligence Monday: Patents: "Assets acquired in today’s private equity and venture deals, mergers and acquisitions, strategic alliances and joint ventures are increasingly intellectual property assets such as patents, copyrights and Internet domain names. Because of the value of these assets, intellectual property due diligence has become an important part of the legal work required for these transactions. Such intellectual property assets consist of (1) “content,” which includes text, visual images (both moving and still), sounds, database information, logos, characters and the like, (2) “technology,” which includes biological chemical compositions and methods, electrical and mechanical devices and software and business methods, and (3) combination hardware and software devices."


- Product Portfolio - how the targtet and acquier's IP match and where are the holes.

- IP valuation based on portfolio - what can be sold off to reduce costs
- IP ecosystem - IP held by competitors; prospective lwwsuites from competitors, IP related govt regulations; influence of industry consortium's and std settings
third party involvement - may block patents etc.

govt regulations - anti trust implications
- long range strategic planning - retaiing key employees - success factors - integration with key products, uncovering IP jewels
- state of the art techniques.

The New Marketing Mission :: EMM GROUP

The New Marketing Mission :: EMM GROUP Brand building is the heart of value creation for the 21st century corporation. The EMM Group authors have taken the mystery out of brand building and replaced it with process, metrics, and tools that any company can master. The book is designed to improve organizational and professional marketing management practices for brand value creation and enhancement.

CoreBrand - Top Corporate Brands Announced

CoreBrand - Top Corporate Brands Announced Guage various IP branding

MEdiums - annual reports
analyst conf calls
websites
advertisements
product labels

check charts by industries on uspto.

Branding/valuation tough in some industries:
Pharma - few home runs
semi-conductors - lots of cross licensing


Ang R&D cost per Patent for the top patenting firm = 3.8 M

patent branding

for consumer brand companies,
B2B companies

How GM/GE are positioning itself as innovators

companies like coca-cola, mc donalds, kfc don't go for patent sna dmaintains key processes/products as trade secrets (protected under state law).

Marketing ->
Brand product and IP -> Sales/Licensing/Sell/donate/IP holding -> shareholder value
IP Management ->



A coherant IP marketing communication program tied to brands supported by PAtents may increase the value of IP. Customers see the brand and know what to expect from the product that they are purchasing. Non-consumer product firms have just one brand and then association with firm name and logo.

Established brands

Established brands In Chinese, “Crisis” is expressed in two words: “Danger” and “Opportunity”, meaning hope lies beneath difficulties and there is great potential of beneficial revolution instead of slow evolution if the situation is handled properly. In a way, many pharmaceutical companies are currently in a certain state of “Crisis” in the face of various internal and external forces. Internal forces include soaring R&D costs, sluggish sales growth, shorter product lifecycle as well as patent expiry, product withdrawal, poor product pipeline, and etc. External forces include competition, uncontrollabe sociopolitical environment, and pressure from government, healthcare insurer, and patient to contain price. Together, these difficulties have seriously dented Pharma’s recent financial performance. It was predicted that Pharma industry would only deliver no more than 5.3% growth rate between now and the year 2010. In contrast, the FT Pharmaceuticals index rose by over 350% between mid-1993 and mid-2000.

Convey IP strengths = # and types of patent assets, strategy, license revenue and transactions, competitive IP position and successful enforcement actions

"Old economy" companies remain old economy companies because they are not able to educate their inventors of the value of IP. Companies in B2B space like Fujitsu, TI may be power houses of IP but valuations suffer because of the lack of communication.

Similarly, consumer brand companies hold huge large amount of IP (including Patent rights)but their public image is that of marketing rich company. e.g. Philip Morris, General Foods, Mc Donalds. P&G spends more on R&D than 3M, Compaq and Merck.

KAM - Key Variables

KAM - Key Variables 14 key variables are selected to create a simplified "basic scorecard" that attempts to capture a country's preparedness for the knowledge-based economy. The data set consists of 12 variables that represent the four pillars of the knowledge economy and are used to calculate countries’ Knowledge (KI) and Knowledge Economy (KEI) indexes. The scorecard also presents two variables related to the overall economic and social performance.

What is Bayh-Dole Act?

What is Bayh-Dole Act?: "In 1980, the Bayh-Dole Act (PL 96-517, Patent and Trademark Act Amendments of 1980) created a uniform patent policy among the many federal agencies funding research. As a result of this law, universities retain ownership to inventions made under federally funded research. In return, universities are expected to file for patent protection and to ensure commercialization upon licensing. The royalties from such ventures are shared with the inventors; a portion is provided to the University and department/college; and the remainder is used to support the technology transfer process. From a historical perspective, there was a need for reliable technology transfer mechanisms and for a uniform set of federal rules to make the process work. It was tough for the federal government to transfer technologies for which it had assumed ownership. In 1980, the federal government had approximately 30,000 patents of which only 5% led to new or improved products. Many patents were not being used as the government did not have the resources to develop and market the inventions. Thus, Bayh-Dole gave universities control of their inventions."

Bayh-Dole Act - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Bayh-Dole Act - Wikipedia US universities, small businesses and non-profits intellectual property control of their inventions that resulted from federal government-funded research.

Academic centers should be able to anticipate future innovations and direction of technology ahead of corporates.

Researchers develop the product in the university, Corporate partners take the product fwd to develop the market and to manufacture stage.

Compare India with other countries about # of Patents filed.

Science and Technology Ventures - STV Home

Science and Technology Ventures - STV Home As Bernard Wysocki Jr. reports, Columbia earned $178.4 million a year on patent royalties in the year ending June 2003, making it the top earner of licensing revenue among American universities. (Nationwide, 195 universities bring in about $1.3 billion in licensing income from patents; a handful of top research universities earn the bulk of this money.)

What universities want:
Advance inventions to the level where corporates get interested & then let commercialization and manufacturing be handled by corporates.

Columbia University since 1983-2000massed more than 400 US Patents and 1000 active licenses with royalties of $143M/yr. in 2000.

Whats the use:
- Corporate funding for R&D
- license income
- more resources for better facilities to attract top talent

Columbia university has mostly done this healthcare patents but they are trying to replicate this model to copyrighted material from faculty lectures, research writings

Business; Patent Donations Are Novel Corporate Gift - New York Times

Business; Patent Donations Are Novel Corporate Gift - New York Times: "At DuPont, researchers found a way to make a valuable chemical that leaves water as the byproduct instead of tons of acid. At Eastman Chemical, they devised a plastic packaging that could more than double the shelf life of beer and soda. At Procter & Gamble, there were discoveries that could help doctors reduce skin discoloration from burns, wounds and grafts. In each case, the research produced a pile of patents the companies decided they could neither use nor license easily to another business. So this year they used a solution that was pioneered in the mid-1990's and has become increasingly common -- they donated the inventions to universities, hospitals or nonprofit institutions and turned what had been wasting away into multimillion-dollar tax write-offs."

Use this investement to bring tac benefits by donating under section 170 deductions.

Intellectual Property Due Diligence: A Must When Assets Are Transferred

Intellectual Property Due Diligence: A Must When Assets Are Transferred Investment due diligence:

- Portfolio fit: true fit for investment. expertise in industries or structures will affect advancement beyond review
- Management: knowledge, contacts, exp. of management team
- business model: model is unique or subject to the rights of others
- Technology

10/28/07

TAEUS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION

TAEUS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION Keyhole 500 is a patent portfolio analysis tool that TAEUS developed to examine keyword relationships in patent portfolios. We use it, along with other commercially available tools, to provide high-level portfolio analysis. Tools like Keyhole 500 help us better route patents to appropriate subject matter experts for thorough technical evaluations of your patents.

RR Donnelley - Legal Services

RR Donnelley - Legal ServicesBPO services - a suite of tailored support solutions that range from traditional document and litigation support to more complex research-driven solutions.

10/14/07

descision analysis computer programs - Google Search

descision analysis computer programs - Google Search include @risk, Precision Tree, Expert Choice, DPL, HIVIEW and most popular - DATA by treeage software.

10/13/07

Patent and Trademark Depository Library

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The Sunnyvale Library is a Patent and Trademark Depository Library (PTDL). Supported by a US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) program and expert staff, PTDLs are the primary personalized channel for the distribution of patent and trademark information to the public. Annual week long training seminars at the USPTO provide Sunnyvale librarians with the most current patent and trademark information.

As a PTDL, Sunnyvale Public Library offers:

* Free access to patent and trademark documents in various formats including through the USPTO Web site, CD-ROM DVD-ROM, and paper
* Patent searching guides and other reference materials on intellectual property
* USPTO-trained staff to answer patent and trademark questions and the ability to request assistance from USPTO experts for obtaining information if further support is needed.

Whether you are researching a new invention or technology, learning about the patents of a particular company, or looking for a patent of a friend or relative, the Sunnyvale Library PTDL has the resources you need. Please note that librarians may not provide legal advice.

Barnes & Noble.com - Books: Patent Intelligence and Technology Report 2007, by Claims Ifi, Hardcover

Barnes & Noble.com - Books: Patent Intelligence and Technology Report 2007, by Claims Ifi, Hardcover The Patent Intelligence and Technology Report (PITR) provides easy access to comprehensive statistical and analytical data that would normally require a costly, on-going research program to compile. Content includes detailed statistics, company profiles, and analysis on all companies that received 10 or more U.S. patents--more than 1,600 companies in 31 countries. With this must-have annual handbook you can determine which companies are key players in a particular technology; identify strategic partners; gain an insider's view of a competitor's patenting activity; review the number of new patents in each category for the past year; and track patenting trends across industries.

10/11/07

BW Online | March 11, 2002 | Tech Stocks: Follow the Patents?

BW Online | March 11, 2002 | Tech Stocks: Follow the Patents? Chi tech-line index outperformed the NASDAQ 23.7% to 39.3 in 2000.and companies with hi-quality patent portfolio are valued 25% higher in market to book valuations.

10/9/07

Brand - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Brand - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Power of branding/trademark even for corporate buyer - no one ever got fired for buying ibm

PricewaterhouseCoopers Study Reveals Companies Need to Address Widening Economic Impact of Unlicensed Technology

PricewaterhouseCoopers Study Reveals Companies Need to Address Widening Economic Impact of Unlicensed Technology 2/3rd of public traded companies in US is intangible assets and IP.

Empires Of The Mind by Denis Waitley

Empires Of The Mind by Denis Waitley Denis Waitley writes in Empires of the Mind, “The leaders of the present and the future will be champions of cooperation more often than of competition. While the power to maintain access to resources will remain important, ‘the survival of the fittest’ mentality will give away to survival of the wisest, a philosophy of understanding, cooperation, knowledge, and reason.”1Access to vital resources has changed because fixed material assets no longer make up the most
important resources. Gaining access to technology means cooperating with other companies, even competitors, in order to gain access to their knowledge-based resources. Independence is again being replaced by interdependence. Waitley succinctly explains, “The future leaders will only get what they want by helping others get what they want.”

10/7/07

Method and apparatus for choosing a ... - Google Patents

Method and apparatus for choosing a stock portfolio, based on patent indicators A portfolio selector technique is described for selecting publicly traded companies to include in a stock market portfolio. The technique is based on a technology score derived from the patent indicators of a set of technology companies with significant patent portfolios. Typical patent indicators may include citation indicators that measure the impact of patented technology on later technology, Technology Cycle Time that measures the speed of innovation of companies, and science linkage that measures leading edge tendencies of companies. Patent indicators measure the effect of quality technology on the company's future performance. The selector technique creates a scoring equation that weights each indicator such that the companies can be scored and ranked based on a combination of patent indicators. The score is then used to select the top ranked companies for inclusion in a stock portfolio. After a fixed period of time, as new patents are issued, the scores are recomputed...

10/4/07

Welcome to Information Holdings Online

Welcome to Information Holdings Online Information Holdings Inc. is a leading provider of intellectual property and regulatory information products and services for professional end users in corporate and legal markets. On November 29, 2004 Information Holdings Inc. was acquired by The Thomson Corporation (www.thomson.com).

The company’s data businesses, which include MicroPatent®, Master Data Center™ and IDRAC, provide a broad array of databases, information products and complimentary services used by intellectual property and regulatory professionals to research and manage information on a global basis. The company’s Liquent business is a leading provider of life science regulatory intelligence and publishing solutions.

Science and Technology Ventures - Invention Disclosure Process

Science and Technology Ventures - Invention Disclosure Process

Columbia Is first Among U.S. Research University in

Columbia Is first Among U.S. Research University in

US Patent system to overhaul

Recent trend of increasing number of litigation's and infringement, have questioned the patent benefits. Has this system become too bureaucratic?
Discussions have been on to make the system more efficient and usable.
A legistation to be discussed this fall (2007) in the senate.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,130930/article.html

10/1/07

IP exchanges

pl-x.com
yet2.com
techex.com
ipnetworks.com