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What makes your Patent more valuable

The two February articles covered the concept of IP valuation — the benefits of understanding the value of your IP and the different models in use today for quantifying that value. There’s a missing piece to the equation though: exactly which attributes m... Read >

Mergers and Acquisitions Due Diligence: Seven Critical Steps You Can’t Afford to Overlook - I

The topic of Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) has become much more important to many companies today than it has been in the past. The economy appears to be on the mend, and companies are scrambling to find ways to expand quickly. Companies are also being f... Read >

Mergers and Acquisitions Due Diligence: Seven Critical Steps You Can’t Afford to Overlook - II

• How much of the IP portfolio was acquired compared to that developed internally? One of the many things your IP portfolio represents is know-how. The inventor of the technology with a patent protection is the ultimate subject matter expert for that tec... Read >

Competitive Intelligence: Getting Ahead of the Development Curve

Today companies are being forced to cope with rising litigation risk because the business environment is simply more litigious. This increased litigiousness has produced a more rigorous due diligence requirement that involves a greater focus on the way in... Read >

Benefits of understanding the value of your IP

IP can be expensive to develop, commercialize and maintainâ€"so we intuitively understand that it has value. Many IP professionals wonder, though, just what makes it valuable and whether certain attributes make some IP more valuable than others. First... Read >

Bulletproof Your IP Strategy through Business Analytics — Part 2

An excellent and easy to understand example of this strategy is cited by Davenport and Harris in their book, Competing on Analytics.The cited case study is Netflix. The very nature of Netflix’s business requires them to track customer rental habits ... Read >

Bulletproof Your IP Strategy through Business Analytics — Introduction

Today there is a new and growing trend in business which relies on analytics to drive critical decisions and to be distinct from the competition. Like most disciplines in which success can be objectively measured, business is a blend of art and science.In... Read >

Maximize Value; Minimize Cost. Your IP and You.

The Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) of your IP is staggering. It's estimated that the average cost over the course of the 20-year life span of a single patent is about $100,000.00 â€" or roughly $5,000 per year in maintenance fees. And that doesn't begin to... Read >

The Power of the User Interface

Apple has always understood how important the User Interface (UI) is â€" because they've always focused on the "U" in UI: the User. I credit their success today for that very reason. From its inception, Apple has concerned itself with the user experience,... Read >

Breaking the Information Barrier

There is a continuous question in analysis: Do you have enough of the right information to make a smart decision? Without the right information, there can be blind spots, gaps, or incomplete answers. Too often people have access to the right information... Read >

How Much Is My Intellectual Property Worth? Setting a Value on Your IP?

While no standardized way exists to fully and accurately assess the monetary worth of your IP, you should have a sense of its real value. Several valuation models exist (some of which are more scientific than others) that are widely accepted. Here are jus... Read >

Mapping Patents to Products – Why Should You Care?

The business world runs on products. Profits and losses, revenue forecasts, and product offerings are all the lifeblood of a company and they're all driven by products. It should come as no surprise then that you would want to protect your products with p... Read >

IPAM + IP Analytics = A Whole Solution

More than two-thirds of a company's asset value is represented by Intellectual Property (IP). As a result, companies often invest a lot of human and financial resources in an IP Asset Management (IPAM) system or process. Regardless of how sophisticated or... Read >