Innovation and IP Articles
Six Secrets to Creating a Culture of Innovation
By Tony Schwartz
Harvard Business Review
When IBM recently polled 1500 CEOs across 60 countries, they rated creativity as the most important leadership competency. Read more…
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What is Intellectual Property?
World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
Intellectual property (IP) refers to creations of the mind: inventions, literary and artistic works, and symbols, names, images, and designs used in commerce.
IP is divided into two categories: Industrial property, which includes inventions (patents), trademarks, industrial designs, and geographic indications of source; and Copyright, which includes literary and artistic works such as novels, poems and plays, films, musical works, artistic works such as drawings, paintings, photographs and sculptures, and architectural designs. Rights related to copyright include those of performing artists in their performances, producers of phonograms in their recordings, and those of broadcasters in their radio and television programs. Read more…
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Innovation – Linking the World
Message from Francis Gurry
Director General, World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
World Intellectual Property Day -2010
Relatively few decades ago, the world remained vast and largely unknown for most people. Travel was costly and long. Knowledge was paper-based and hard to share. Telephone service was, in many places, non-existent. Outside of large cities, access to foreign culture and the arts was limited.Rapid innovation and its global adoption has transformed our outlook.
We are now linked – physically, intellectually, socially and culturally – in ways that were impossible to imagine. Read more…
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Is Your Company’s IP Strategy Crippling its Open Innovation?
By Oliver Alexy, Paola Criscuolo and Ammon Salter
MIT Sloan Management Review
Protecting intellectual property would seem to be at odds with pursuing open innovation. Companies use open innovation when they, looking to advance technologies, take external and internal ideas, as well as internal and external paths to market. When companies selectively use research others have carried out, they bring new ideas to their businesses, rendering them more productive and profitable, saving time and often saving money. Read more…
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Supreme Court Leaves Door Open to Process Patents
By Brian Dingman
Chair, Intellectual Property Group, Mirick O’Connell
On June 28, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its long-awaited decision in Bilski et al. v. Kappos. At issue in the case was whether business methods were eligible for patent protection. There had been some concern expressed in the press that the Supreme Court would use the Bilski case as a vehicle to determine that business methods and/or software were not patentable. Read more…
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No Rest for Innovators Seeking to Improve
By Saul Kaplan
Founder and Cheif Catalyst of the Business Innovation Factory
Being an innovator is both a blessing and a curse. Innovators constantly seek to improve things by finding a better way. A questing personality is a blessing that provides innovators with a source of pride, accomplishment and exhilaration. Read more…
