Now that HP has changed its direction, whither Dell?
John Everett, Dell spokesperson, stated recently that 80% of the revenue reported by Dell last quarter was “from IP,” which is allowing Dell to strengthen its brand and change its business paradigm to more of a solutions provider. This is not to say Dell will go the way of HP and jettison its hardware business. [...]
The compelling corporate need for a Chief Intellectual Property Officer
Marshal Phelps and John Cronin (of IBM fame) compiled three lessons (in Forbes) for the “C” suite in Google’s $12.5B acquisition of Motorola Mobility, and they outline a clear and compelling need for organizations to appoint and support a CIPO. Bookmark on DeliciousDigg this postRecommend on Facebookshare via RedditShare with StumblersTweet about itSubscribe to the comments [...]
Trade secrets protections continue to flourish
R. Mark Halligan (Nixon Peabody) writes that even before the president signs the America Invents Act (expected today), trade secrets protections were flourishing even as some patent protections were weakening. For example, a business method for hedging risks such as the one at issue in Bilski still can be protectable as a trade secret. And [...]
Rushing to the patent office should await a detailed business plan
Economist Paul Romer teaches that the value of a knowledge asset “is proportional to the size of the market in which you can sell it.” This, of course, is fundamental to valuation analysts whose reports include extensive market and industry analyses. What may not be as understood is Romer’s predicate: “Knowledge does not become an [...]
FASB adds new initiative on impairment of intangibles
After the FASB received feedback on its proposed standards for testing goodwill impairment project, it added a new project on the impairment of intangible assets with indefinite lives, reports Michael Conn in Accounting Today. “The new project’s scope is to simplify the manner in which an entity tests other indefinite-lived intangible assets for impairment,” Conn [...]
Continued innovation calls for continued access to investment capital
In the spirit of patent reform, the need for job growth and fostering innovation, we look at Ken Jarboe’s summary of Improving Access to Capital for High-Growth Companies, a recent report issued by the National Advisory Council on Innovation and Entrepreneurship (NACIE) Bookmark on DeliciousDigg this postRecommend on Facebookshare via RedditShare with StumblersTweet about itSubscribe [...]
FCC licenses have private economic value, including goodwill
Long-established law prohibits the owners of FCC licenses from pledging the licenses themselves as collateral. Aware of these federal regulations, a mobile satellite provider granted its secured note holders an interest in all economic proceeds from the “sale, transfer, or other disposition” of their FCC licenses as well as any related “goodwill or other intangible [...]
HTC’s legal hand was strengthened by the inclusion of nine more patents from Google
In what smacks of an international card game more than a defense of intellectual property, Google has passed nine patents on to HTC to strengthen their Apple infringement hand. USPTO reports four of the transferred patents came from Motorola, three from Openwave and the remaining two from Palm Inc. HTC then sued Apple in federal [...]
On-sale bar to patentability stretched by the courts
Jim Singer in IP Spotlight reminds companies, inventors, and professionals performing due diligence that offers for sale of even hypothetical concepts can bar eventual patentability. In August Technology Corp. v. Camtek, Ltd. (Fed. Cir. Aug. 22, 2011), the Court found that August Technology’s offer for sale of an integrated circuit inspection system triggered an on-sale bar to [...]
Companies need to start tracking investments in home-grown intangibles
Readers have long heard the lament about the inability to measure, track and manage internally developed intangibles in a company’s financial statements. Intangible value drivers are key to a company’s success, but, borrowing from Drucker, how can they be managed if they can’t be measured? Bookmark on DeliciousDigg this postRecommend on Facebookshare via RedditShare with [...]
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