This blog has offered some posts on IP counterfeiting, but not much on what a law department can to do about it (See my post of March 16, 2010: counterfeit and piracy of goods with 6 references.). Therefore, when InsideCounsel, June 2010 at 74, included the K&L Gates Top of…
This blog has offered some posts on IP counterfeiting, but not much on what a law department can to do about it (See my post of March 16, 2010: counterfeit and piracy of goods with 6 references.). Therefore, when InsideCounsel, June 2010 at 74, included the K&L Gates Top of…
No one knows. But academic management literature doesn’t lack for models, theories and research. “The conventional argument, primarily drawn from upper echelons theory, is that long-tenured executives are a source of organizational complacency. That is, they tend to resist change and embrace the strategic status quo.” Despite this summary statement…
A recent interview of Hanns Hallesius, Electrolux’s head of IP, brought to the fore several observations. Hallesius said “We’ve already moved away from a focus on ownership of tangible property, as a measurement of value, to the use of intangible assets to generate cash flow.” IP groups that measure their…
A previous post laid out five stages of development for intellectual property departments (See my post of May 11, 2010: IP maturity ladder.). What I didn’t write was that the metaphor of rungs of development did not ring true, so to speak. The terms to describe them (in ascending order,…
Someone has proposed a taxonomy to describe corporate intellectual property departments. It has five stages, “with ‘defensive’ at the bottom rung and ‘visionary’ at the top, and ‘cost control’, ‘profit center’ and ‘integrated’ marking the steps up in between.” This categorization comes from IP Rev., Spring/Summer 2010 at 10, which…
Not every in-house lawyers pines to be a general counsel; many don’t want the pressure and demands (See my post of Sept. 10, 2005: OK to have some B-players who have hit a plateau; May 18, 2007: stress and pressure with 7 references; and June 11, 2008: stress with 18…
Some social network analysts study the frequency and strength of connections between people. For example, an article in the Harvard Mag., May-June 2010 at 46, shows networks for Harvard inventors who applied for patents between 2003 and 2008. The size, color and location of “nodes” – people in the network…
Speak to the journalists yourself, general counsel, rather than through the partner at a law firm who represents you. That is the message of an article by Prof. Michele DeStefano Beardslee in the Georgetown J. of Legal Ethics, Fall 2009 at 1259, 1291. Litigation partners with big egos and marketing…
One finding from CPA Global’s State of the IP Industry Survey last year concerned how regularly the 93 participant companies assessed the value of their intellectual property (IP) assets. The executive summary says that “while 20% of companies say they conduct quarterly IP audits, by far the largest proportion (41%)…