30 September 2024 · Innovation, IP Strategy, IP Value, Patents, Trade secrets
Patents are not the only answer to the innovation / invention IP question. If I asked you if I could share your invention with the world, what would you want in return? This is the pay off you are making when you file for a patent. 20 year monopolistic rights over the patented invention? Yes. […]
Read More18 September 2024 · IP Culture, IP Education, IP Strategy
First understand your value drivers Then work out how to protect those with contracts, technical measures and IP (intellectual property). You can start today with unregistered rights such as Copyright, Trademarks, Designs and Trade Secrets. You can engage an adviser such as an IP lawyer or you could use an IP business adviser like me […]
Read More4 September 2024 · Articles, IP Strategy, M&A Due Diligence
I am John Pryor, making IP accessible and valuable for your business. The Benefit of Hindsight UpfrontTM Innovation Without IP Is Charity IP Provides Defence From Unlicensed Offence Leads To Secure Revenue. The Best Defence Is A Good Offence. Intellectual Property Is A Business Construct To Enable The Sharing Of Ideas And Other Creations Of […]
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2 July 2024 · Investors, IP Education, IP Strategy, IP Value
I knew nothing about IP but now I am advising investors on the matter
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1 July 2024 · IP Culture, IP Education, IP Strategy, IP Value, Knowledge, Trade secrets
AI tools are so powerful that they can join the dots and identify your Trade Secrets even before you have identified them!
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27 June 2024 · Innovation, IP Strategy, Knowledge, Knowledge Transfer, Trade secrets
THE MOST IMPORTANT STUFF IS NOT IN THE PATENT It is held in the head of the operator. This is the know-how that makes the system work at all times. It may be the 30 year veteran who just knows (by the change in the sound of the machine) that it is time to add the ingredient!
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12 June 2024 · Entrepreneurship, Innovation, IP Strategy, Knowledge Transfer, Tech Transfer
Attract the best talented AI coders to come and live and work in your area, AI will then be transferred to local people and companies, helping the economy.
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6 June 2024 · Articles, IP Culture, IP Strategy, M&A Due Diligence
The best M&A Due Diligence includes a thorough assessment of the organisation’s intellectual property management, strategy and culture. Value at Risk Intellectual property risks can be costly. They include: Not owning the Brand rights to go to market; Hidden Litigation threats; Diminished Competitive Advantage; Weakened Software; Inability to sell the product in the current form. […]
Read More22 May 2024 · IP Education, IP Strategy, IP Value
Standards of Education ‘The average 11 year old in China knows more about IP than PhD students in the UK’, Ian Harvey, Professor Imperial College London. IP Value With the majority of the value in any business today being protected by IP should we be concerned that IP education is so poor? UK IP Education […]
Read More13 May 2024 · IP Strategy, Trade secrets
Sadly with Intellectual Property, many companies only get active when they have been hit with an issue, this is an expensive strategy.
Read More19 April 2024 · IP Strategy, Trade secrets
All is fair in love and war! The Wall Street Journal reporter Dana Mattioli. Is publishing a new book: ‘The Everything War: Amazon’s Ruthless Quest to Own the World and Remake Corporate Power’. The book reveals that Amazon hired employees from a rival (Trader Joe’s) to learn sales and profit information about product lines. The […]
Read More3 April 2024 · Articles, IP Strategy, Trademark
Brand protection strategy helps fast growth businesses defend the value in their brand using trademarks. Developing the right strategy early on is good advice.
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