Innovation Resolutions
At the end of the year, it's traditional to look ahead into a new year and make some resolutions. For those of you who are interested in innovation, here are some resolutions to take with you into the new year.
The Community of Blogs
Don't think of your blog as a publishing tool or a search engine magnet. Think of your blog as a medium by which you'll participate in a community. And instead of having to follow the revenue driven protocols and road maps developed by a social networking company, your community will be comprised of people anywhere with a common interest who have an effective Internet presence.
Blawg Review #140
Intellectual Property attorney Jonathan Frieden hosts this week's issue of the best of the law blogs in a special presentation based on the twelve days of Christmas, including a post from this blog.
Should Yahoo! be able to patent "smart drag and drop"?
Help the US Patent Office reject bogus patent claims by participating in the Peer to Patent project and pointing patent examiners to examples of prior art.
The State of Innovation
It's not just a buzzword—three recent surveys find innovation is still a high priority with a majority of executives across industries and across the world.
Open Innovation and IP Strategy
Open Innovation requires companies to be more savvy about both their defensive and offensive moves in intellectual property.
A Different "P2P"
Mike Dillon, General Counsel at Sun, says, "An obvious test of whether something is a good idea is to look at who is supporting it. When the answer is a diverse set of competitors, you know it's an idea who's time has come. The Peer to Patent Project ("P2P") is a good example."
Blawg Review #139
Hanna Hasl-Kelchner, Associate General Counsel and national counsel for trademark enforcement at Lorillard Tobacco Company, hosts Blawg Review #139 this week on Legal Literacy.
IBM Global Business Services
Do you have an innovation strategy? Does your culture encourage innovation? Now you can take a quick, easy innovation assessment and learn how your company rates on key elements of innovation. Based on the insights of the Global CEO Study 2006, the tool analyzes your responses to key questions about your organization's innovation approach — and compares the results to those of the 750 CEO Study participants. Check it out.
The Pharmaceutical Innovation Conundrum
Pharmaceutical innovation is on the decline. Large sums poured into medical research by the private and public sectors have not produced the promised payoff. The number of important new drugs and biologics introduced into medical practice has dropped precipitously in recent years and has been on a downward trend for over a decade.
Free Patent Calendar for 2008
PATSCAN’s Bizarre Patent Calendar for 2008 (pdf) is now available.
The Power of Collaborative Innovation
“Power of Collaborative Innovation” will be the theme of the World Economic Forum’s Annual meeting in Davos January 23-27, 2008.
Philips Design Talks: Electric Tattoos
Wild stuff, to be sure...
Create In-House Start Ups
If your organization is finding it slow going cranking up its innovation machine, take a tip from the world of high tech.
Lawsuit Challenging Qualifications of Deputy Patent & Trademark Office Director Rejected
"The presumption must be that decisions involving high-level policymaking personnel are left primarily to the executive. In such a situation, one would expect Congress to speak in precise terms if it intended the courts to monitor the minimal qualifications for agency officers. Here, Congress has given only the broadest of instructions -– that the Deputy Director should have 'a professional background and experience in patent or trademark law.' The statute is silent as to the content of those terms."
Hiding in Plain Site: Making Government Information Findable
Web 2.0 and "search" gurus were on Capitol Hill yesterday talking to Congress about how to make government information easier to find. This comes just as the Center for Democracy and Technology releases its report, "Hiding in Plain Sight: Why Important Governmental Information Cannot be Found through Commercial Search Engines."
Percentage of intellectual property (IP) work that is outsourced overseas by US law departments
Somewhat more than half answered zero (57.8%), which means that the rest, almost half the group, have turned to offshore providers for services related to trademarks, copyright or patents. More precisely, about a fifth said 1-10 percent of their work goes offshore (21.9%); some ship off 11-25 percent of it (10.9%); some offshore 26-50 percent (5.5%), and a handful do so with more than 50 percent of their IP work (3.9%).
Tango With Ideas
IdeaTango is a social networking site that is set up to allow inventors a place to post, request and exchange ideas, inventions, intellectual property and patents — the MySpace of inventions. Companies can search the database of ideas for possible products for their company.
Online Library Gives Readers Access To 1.5 Million Books
The Million Book Project, an international venture led by Carnegie Mellon University in the United States, Zhejiang University in China, the Indian Institute of Science in India and the Library at Alexandria in Egypt, has completed the digitization of more than 1.5 million books, which are now available online.
The Blog Council : Learning to blog the responsible way
Cisco, Microsoft, Dell, and a number of other large corporations have launched a so-called Blog Council. Best I can tell from their press release they're going to create rules and standards for ethics-based corporate blogs so we'll know how to use blogs and engage the blogosphere the right way.
New Blog Council For Corporate Blogging
Andy Sernovitz, CEO of Gas Pedal, CEO of WOMMA, the Word of Mouth Marketing Association and blogger at Damn! I wish I'd thought of that! has set up the Blog Council an industry group of large companies which conduct corporate blogging.
Patent Litigation Trends: Survey Results
Fulbright & Jaworski recently released some results from its survey of 300 GC’s (and AGC’s) at large US & UK companies. Dennis Crouch at Patently-O points out some interesting findings and links to the report.
As China implements its plan to improve scientific innovation,
it will need to solve such political and economic problems as finding the proper balance between indigenous efforts and engagement with the global community.
Sean Silverthorne, Editor of HBS Working Knowledge., interviewed
with Alan D. MacCormack, a Harvard Business School professor, in a blog article entitled "Best Practices of Global Innovators."
One Laptop Per Child
hit with patent lawsuit alleging that the OLPC has infringed a patent on a 'four shift key' keyboard, which helps the computer handle multiple languages.
Peer to Patent Update:
Since the Peer-to-Patent launch on June 15, there have been 177,784 page views from 31,081 unique viewers in 125 different countries and/or territories.
