15 March 2023 · Articles, Innovation, IP Value
What is the most important intellectual property protection for your business? Educating your employees on business intellectual property. Ten reasons why training your team on intellectual property makes great sense for your business.
Read More5 March 2023 · Articles, Innovation
How to reduce the impact when your assets leave for good? More than 250,000 tech job layoffs in 2023 so far!As we all know big companies under pressure from investors move fast to demonstrate efficiencies and many have seen their stock rise following layoff announcements. Moving quickly means mistakes have been made and valuable assets […]
Read More3 January 2023 · Articles, Innovation, IP Value
Start-Up Intellectual Property can be either. Get your start up business intellectual property right and it will bark for you, and send warning that you have your intellectual property sorted. Leave intellectual property too late in your success and you will make it easy for the poachers, copycats and intellectual property wolves to feast on […]
Read More18 December 2022 · Articles, Innovation
It’s all kicking off No longer a bunch of plastic shapes stitched and glued together this year’s FIFA World Cup football is a technological powerhouse as well Using technology developed by German company Kinexon the ball can now accurately measure that Luis Chavez struck the ball at 121.69 kmh to score against Saudi Arabia. It […]
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13 December 2022 · Articles, Copyright, Innovation, IP Value
This is where contract law, copyright and business intellectual property work closely together,
Read More13 December 2022 · Articles, Innovation, Software
If the product/service at the core of the company is built on too much opensource, the company may not actually be in a position to claim ownership of core business intellectual property (such as proprietary code, copyright and trade secrets) which in turn may yield a company valuation far less than desirable.
Read More9 December 2022 · Articles, Innovation
Switzerland to ban EVs to save energy! Just as Delhi considers banning petrol and diesel cars to reduce pollution and the UK opens a new coalmine! Not a good example of joined up thinking to solve a supranational problem
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28 November 2022 · Articles, Innovation, IP Value
Innovation Incentive Schemes explained by Claritas Tax. Innovation incentives are designed to support innovative and high growth companies. R&D Tax Credits and Patent Box are two such schemes in the UK. The R&D tax credit scheme has been around for over 20 years and the patent box scheme for about half of that time. The […]
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25 November 2022 · Articles, Innovation, IP Value
Programmes to identify and capture know-how and trade secrets will mean you businesses is less reliant on key individuals, I’m better able to identify and enter protect the items from which it derives competitive advantage in the marketplace.
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24 November 2022 · Articles, Innovation, IP Value
Can I still claim on Patent Box if my patents aren’t granted yet? You can still claim for the time between patent application and grant Once the patent is granted you can make a claim for the profits arising from the patented product or service, for the time from when the patent application was submitted and the time it took to obtain the granted patent.
Read More17 November 2022 · Articles, Innovation
How will this hurt the tech sector and innovation? The UK government seeks £4.5 bn in savings from R&D tax credit cuts by targeting SMEs and start-ups. The Autumn statement used a blunt instrument to attempt to tackle spurious claims but really it was an easy way of saving the government money. We all agree […]
Read More3 November 2022 · Articles, Innovation, IP Value
One patent over one essential element, qualifies the whole of the profit derived from the product or service for patent box.
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