October, 2018
John Cronin, Managing Director and Chairman is the author of "
AI Enters the IAM and IP Space as an App Store? You’re Kidding!". Intro: Artificial Intelligence (AI) goes back to the 1950’s, as defined by Minsky & McCarthy, to be “any task performed by a program or a machine that, if a human carried out the same activity, we would say the human had to apply intelligence to accomplish the task”. This being the case, a lot has happened in almost 70 years since that statement. The history of AI can be easily researched; however, a reasonable definition can also be extracted from examples of how AI is being used and what AI is being used for.
July, 2018
Adam Bulakowski, Principal Partner, is the author of "
Winning in the knowledge economy". In this whitepaper, Adam discusses how companies (and countries) with unique, intangible assets and associated capabilities capture more of the value that they create from innovation activities (and remain competitive).
February, 2018
John Cronin, Managing Director and Chairman, and Jacob Rosen, Chief Executive Officer and Matt Osman, Chief Technology Officer of
Legit
are co-authors of "
Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Invention Disclosures". Intro: Artificial Intelligence (AI), when implemented correctly, uses humans’ biggest weakness to its advantage: the management and analysis of huge quantities of data. Confronted with several million documents all containing different information, a legal practitioner's first goal will be to reduce that to a reasonable level. That is often what previous workflow technology has been previously used for, particularly in the legal realm. Document management systems filter by date, author and keywords, RSS feeds show only news stories pertaining to an attorney’s current cases and even the “find” function on PDFs documents help you ignore most of the target document. The performance of these tools does not improve when the amount of data it is tasked with handling increases, in fact in most cases it declines.
October, 2017
John Cronin, Managing Director and Chairman, is the author of "
Identify your Innovation Cosmic Event Before it's too Late!". In this whitepaper, John discusses that varying “Events” drive different Innovation needs which in turn create different Innovation processes. There are hundreds of "Events" that drive Innovation needs and each need requires different Innovation process solutions.
February, 2017
Adam Bulakowski, Principal Partner, is the author of "
The VC’s playbook: Diligence essentials for technology-based IP". In this whitepaper, Adam discusses how VC investments can improve monetization options and mitigate risk when diligence considers IP assets from a holistic business perspective, beyond the traditional legal opinions.
October, 2016
Jeff Padgett, Senior Associate, is the author of "
IP Trends in the Energy Value Chain". In this whitepaper, Jeff provides an overview of the Energy value chain and the role of IP. The dramatic growth of the energy industry over the past 15 years is reflected in both global revenues and patent filings. New technologies have driven this growth and served to reorganize the energy industry. Identifying the opportunities and creating new innovations will be the key to addressing the evolving market.
September, 2016
John Cronin, Managing Director and Chairman, is the author of "
Why Big Data is Key to Wearables for Sport". In this publication, Mr. Cronin explores the Sports Wearables space from a variety of perspectives, all viewed through the lens of Intellectual Property. Each perspective provides a variety of insights on the space and provides a glimpse of the future of the technology of Sports Wearables and the IP that protects it.
August, 2016
Adam Bulakowski, Principal Partner, is the author of "
Valuation of Public Equities, Including Alphabet, Amazon, Apple: Capital Market Pricing of Opaque Intangible Assets". In this whitepaper, Adam connects market value to innovation-related growth potential, a practice that requires diligence beyond traditional analysis, particularly on knowledge intensive businesses.
June, 2016
John Cronin, Managing Director and Chairman, is the author of "
Creating Opportunities and Winning Back Your Losses From a Patent Litigation" (password protected). In this publication, Mr. Cronin discusses the many options available to a defendant after losing a patent case, including how ipCG's latest service offering can help.
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May, 2016
"
How To Innovate Without All That Costly R&D". Every business needs to innovate in order to thrive. But as corporate research and development grows ever more expensive, it's also becoming ever less effective. PriceWaterhouseCoopers reports that half of all companies say they are only "marginally effective" (i.e., bad) at converting R&D spending into actual products. Which explains why R&D is so often the target of activist investors.
Continue this Forbes Leadership Article by John Cronin, Managing Director and Chairman.
March, 2016
John Cronin, Managing Director and Chairman, is the author of "
Where's the Real Opportunity in Big Data?". In this whitepaper, based on a presentation Mr. Cronin gave at the Big Data Innovation Summit held January 28 & 29, 2016 in Las Vegas, Nevada, he outlines three big challenges in innovating and then owning the new Big Data products and services companies can develop for the marketplace.
January, 2016
Adam Bulakowski, Principal Partner, is the author of "
The Future of Banking Profits: Innovation Decisions for Retail and Commercial Banks". In this whitepaper, Adam outlines the changing customer and competitor landscapes facing today's banking industry and argues that developing a thoughtful innovation strategy, considering changes with both customer needs and competition, is necessary to maintain profitability.
October, 2015
"
How Driverless Cars Will Radically Change Every Aspect of Our Lives". Good driver discounts? Accident premium hikes? These are about to go extinct, along with a good portion of auto insurance profits. Because in just three years' time, driverless cars are going to start hitting the roads and reshaping a host of industries - not to mention all of our lives.
But before we look at how, exactly, our lives will change, let's explore a curious feature of this radical innovation: it's coming primarily from outside the auto industry itself.
Continue this Forbes Leadership Article by Marshall Phelps, Jr., former Deputy General Counsel of IP and Corporate Vice President of Microsoft Corporation.
September, 2015
"
Do Patents Really Promote Innovation? A Response To The Economist". Last month, the venerable
Economist newspaper published
an editorial decrying the state of the patent system. They rightly condemned the "parasitic ecology of trolls" that has bruised the patent system in recent years. But then the
Economist went much further, claiming that while "today's patent regime operates in the name of progress, instead it sets innovation back."
Continue this Forbes Leadership Article by Marshall Phelps, Jr., former Deputy General Counsel of IP and Corporate Vice President of Microsoft Corporation.
August, 2015
"
Can Big Tech Regain Its Innovation Mojo?". American technology companies once led the way in developing breakthrough products and services. But today many big tech firms seem to have lost their innovation mojo.
Contuine this Forbes Leadership Article by Marshall Phelps, Jr., former Deputy General Counsel of IP and Corporate Vice President of Microsoft Corporation.
May, 2015
John Cronin, Managing Director and Chairman, and Peter Vanderheyden, President, Article One Partners, are the authors of "
Crowd Searching Prior Art: Quality, Cost Savings and Improved Product Design Start with Crowd Search Invention Disclosure Prior Art Analysis". In this whitepaper, the authors address the fact that prior art is an issue that must be dealt with today more than in the past because of the ability to analyze global information databases. While it was easy to ignore data when it was difficult to access, the amount of accessible data has exploded. Avoiding it increases risk and cost while simultaneously reducing quality. Enter crowd searching.
September, 2014
In his Sept. 2014
Intellectual Property magazine article "
Decoding patent valuation 
,"
Adam J. Bulakowski, Director, provides a business perspective on valuing a patent portfolio - understanding the context, analyzing complex data, applying multiple approaches, and broadening the view of IP strategy beyond assertion-based ROI.
May, 2013
Bruce Story, Senior Advisor, discusses the impact of the AIA on the value of trade secrets in "
America Invents Act
shines the spotlight
on trade secrets", written for
IAM Magazine's May/June 2013 issue.
September, 2012
John Cronin, Managing Director and Chairman, Nathan Doudera, Analyst, and John Callan of Ursa Major Associates are the authors of "
Can Intellectual Property Save the USPS?" a white paper exploring how IP could be used to revivify the USPS, and the implications that bares for other players along the postal value chain. The paper was published by Post & Parcel on September 11, 2012.
July, 2012
John Cronin, Managing Director and Chairman, and Nathan Doudera, Analyst, are the authors of "
Is the Rental Car Industry Heading Toward Disruption Because of Intellectual Property?", an article outlining how recent increases in patents related to rental cars and mobile technology in particular, both within and outside of the industry, are cause for rental companies to embrace and prepare for IP's role in staying competitive. The article was written for
Auto Rental News.
September, 2011
John Cronin, Managing Director and Chairman, and Marshall Phelps, ipCapital Group Board Member, are the authors of "
Mining Patent Gold: What Every CEO Should Know", an article detailing recent large IP transactions and trends in the industry. The article, published in Forbes Magazine on September 9, 2011 can be found at the
Forbes site.
September, 2011
Learn how to how to encourage joint creation in open innovation without losing IP rights in "
Onwards and upwards", by ipCG Senior Manager, Kate Shore, published by Intellectual Property Magazine, September, 2011.
April, 2011
Rachael Schwartz, Senior Manager, details how communication of the value of IP accelerates business potential in her article, "
Bridging the Information Gap", published by Intellectual Property Magazine, April, 2011.
March, 2011
Nancy Edwards Cronin, Principal Partner, weighs in with her expertise on the role of IP in various industry sectors and board rooms in "
Taking it to the Top" an article by Rebecca Evans for the March, 2011 Issue of Intellectual Property Magazine.
February, 2011
Rachael Schwartz, Senior Manager, outlines the best approach to IP valuation in an acquisition in her article, "
Considering intellectual property in acquisition pricing", published by Intellectual Property Magazine, February, 2011.
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September, 2010
Rachael Schwartz, Senior Manager, talks about the intricacies of Trademark
Licensing in the article, "
The
Art of Trademark Licensing", published by LES Insights, an e-zine of
the Licensing Executive Society, September, 2010.
July, 2010
John Ciannamea, Senior Advisor, and John Cronin, Managing Director and Chairman
are the authors of "
Maximizing
Value from Distressed Portfolio Companies ,"
an article describing the potentially lucrative benefits of intellectual property
licensing and sales as an alternative to bankruptcy and other choices for failing
companies published in the July, 2010 issue of
Venture
Capital Journal.
March, 2010
Bruce Story, Senior Advisor, emphasizes that the success of an IP strategy hinges
on the employment of intellectual capital management processes in his letter "
Executing
IP Strategy with ICM Process Implementation ."
February, 2010
John Cronin, Managing Director & Chairman is cited for his expertise in the
February, 2010 Innovationedge blog posting "
Don't
Overlook the Power of Defensive Publications" by Jeff Lindsay.
January, 2010
Kate Shore, Senior Manager and Dr. Peter Allen of nu Angle discuss gaining a
competitive advantage by combining technology roadmapping with intellectual property
in the Quarter 1, 2010 issue of
nu
Angle's newsletter (please see bottom of page 2).
John Cronin, Managing Director & Chairman, outlines the objections he hears
to developing or modifying a company's IP strategy and highlights the typical
results of discussing these objections with clients in "The
Case for Developing an "Executable" IP Strategy in 2010 ."
John Cronin, Managing Director & Chairman of ipCG, Jed Cahill, Consulting Manager
at ipCG, and Brian Cookson, President & Managing Director at RDP Associates,
explain how companies conducting R&D can capitalize on valuable synergies between
systematic IP extraction and R&D tax credit documentation processes in "Uncovering
Value in R&D Tax Credit Processes Through Strategic IP Management,"
written for MX: Medical Executive, November 2009.
John Cronin, Managing Director & Chairman of ipCG, and Brad Goldense President
and CEO of Goldense Group, Inc. are the authors of "Integral
IAM and new product processes are the future", published in the November/December
2009 issue of IAM Magazine. The article stresses the importance of becoming an
early adopter to the growing trend of merging intellectual property and business
goals.
John Cronin, Managing Director and CEO, and Sarju Bharucha, Associate, outline
their guidelines to "Friendly licensing" - an approach that offers companies an
opportunity to strengthen their IP portfolios while maintaining a favorable industry-wide
reputation, in their article "Friendly
Licensing in the Aftermath of MedImmune."
Jed Cahill, Consulting Manager, and Sandy Lewis, Director of Human Resources,
outline best practices for managing intellectual assets before, during, and
after workforce downsizing in "Minimizing
loss of vital intellectual assets when downsizing", written for
IAM Magazine's May/June 2009 issue.
John Cronin, Managing Director & Chairman of ipCG, and Paul DiGiammarino,
CEO of Anaqua, highlight the role-players and the best practice strategies for
managing intellectual property in an era of economic uncertainty in "Understanding
and unifying diverse IP strategy perspectives" ,
written for IAM Magazine's January/February 2009 issue.
John Cronin, Managing Director & Chairman, and Kate Shore, Consulting Manager,
discuss the framework for maximizing ROI by "Managing
IP in open innovation partnerships" reissued in the IAM Magazine special
report "IP
in the life sciences industries 2009". Copies of the report are available
upon request.
John Cronin, Managing Director & Chairman, and Bruce Story, Senior Advisor,
discuss an important method for reducing the costs of IP portfolio management
during an economic crisis in their letter, "Reducing Costs in Managing Patents" .
John Cronin, Managing Director & Chairman, and Bruce Story, Senior Advisor,
outline methods of IP management that can position a company for gains when
market conditions change in "Managing
IP in a Difficult Economic Environment" ,
written for IAM Magazine's March/April 2009 issue.
Read about the history and background of ipCG and its founder, John Cronin,
in "Patent
Medicine Man," from the March 2009 issue of Business People-Vermont.
Jed Cahill, Consulting Manager, and Chris Rose, Senior Manager, discuss strategies
for growing revenue and reducing IP costs in "Base
your IP decisions on strategy" in the January/February 2009 issue of
Telecom Asia.
ipCapital Group receives prominent mention as a licensing agent in IAM's article
"Meet
the Middlemen"
by Raymond Millien and Ron Laurie.
Nancy Edwards Cronin, Principal, is highlighted in Sara-Jayne Adams' IAM magazine
article "Breaking
through the glass ceiling"
in the October/November 2008 issue.
John Cronin, Managing Director & Chairman, and Rachael Schwartz, Senior Manager,
are the authors of "Get
Smart about Intellectual Property: A three-stage plan for boards to get a handle
on intangible assets," written for Directorship Magazine's October-November
issue.
Nancy Edwards Cronin, Principal, discusses the implications of a recent infringement
suit in "TiVo
gets $104M from EchoStar over patent infringement" by Tony C.
Yang for the San Jose Business Journal.
John Cronin, Managing Director & Chairman, and Douglas Roth, Senior Manager,
are the authors of "Increasing
the Value of Portfolio Companies Using Disciplined, Cost-Effective Approaches
to Intellectual Property Management," written for the National
Venture Capital Association's newsletter.
Nancy Edwards Cronin, Principal, discusses a recent Google patent application
and its implications for Google's efforts to green up its data centers in her
latest blog entry, "Google
Sets Your Data Adrift?" for the Huffington Post's green section.
Nancy Edwards Cronin, Principal, highlights the role of technology and IP
in Olympic swimming in her latest blog entry, "In
the Water Cube, It's Clean AND Green" for the Huffington Post's
green section.
In the July 2008 issue of Chief Executive Magazine, John Cronin, Managing
Director & Chairman, lends his intellectual property expertise to Erik Sherman's
article "Surviving
the Patent Shakeup."
Nancy Edwards Cronin, Principal, discusses "The
Role of Intellectual Property in Innovation" in Tatsuya Nakagawa's
Product Life Marketing Blog.
Nancy Edwards Cronin, Principal, weighs in on the role of intellectual property
in clean tech entrepreneurship in "Watch
Your Back - Protecting Your Green Invention" by MC Milker for
Ecopreneurist.
John Cronin, Managing Director & Chairman, and Kate Shore, Consulting Manager,
discuss the framework for maximizing ROI by "Managing
IP in open innovation partnerships" in the June-July 2008 issue
of Intellectual Asset Management Magazine.
John Cronin, Managing Director & Chairman, contributes his insights on IP in
the banking industry in Glen Fest's Bank Technology News article "Intellectual
Property on Trial."
John Cronin, Managing Director & Chairman and Rachael Schwartz, Senior Manager,
discuss ways the banking industry could better approach infringement issues
in "A
Little Homework Could Have Saved Banks a Lot of Patents Grief."
John Cronin, Managing Director & Chairman and Rachael Schwartz, Senior Manager, provide expertise to the May 2008 CFO magazine article Patents under Pressure
Nancy Edwards Cronin, Principal Partner, proposes improvements to the Eco-Patent
Commons to aid in its goal of sharing useful environmental technologies in "Strategic
Thinking: Growing the Eco-Patent Commons to Truly Promote Green Innovation".
The article was published in April 2008 at Greenbiz.com.
John Cronin, Managing Director & Chairman and Nancy Edwards Cronin, Principal
Partner, discuss the positive impact collaboration has on the ways companies
invent in the recent How Online interview "Transparency
and Collaboration in Intellectual Property".
John Cronin contributes to the article "The
Changing Face of Intellectual Property" in the March 2008 issue
of Financial Executive Magazine.
Doug Roth, Senior Manager, discusses the role of patent lawsuits in the consolidation-ripe
CDN market in the February 2008 article "Are
CDN Patent Lawsuits Actually a Mating Call?" by xchange Magazine's
Kelly M. Teal.
John Cronin provides expertise on the relationship between businesses and academic
institutions in determining an intellectual property royalty structure that
is a boon to both sectors in the EE Times article "Industry
could pay in advance for university IP, prez says."
Effective due diligence requires linking a company's intellectual property
to its business as outlined in "IP
due diligence: Make it strategic" by Douglas J. Roth and Michael
R. Bielski in their article in Corporate Dealmaker magazine.
Globalization has created both significant opportunities and risks for innovative
organizations. Michael Bielski, Justin Kunz and John Cronin discuss how IP strategy
can help innovative organizations sustain competitive advantage in "Lowering
Intellectual Property (IP) Risk When Outsourcing Manufacturing."
John Cronin, Managing Director & Chairman introduces ipCapital Group and discusses the importance of a strong intellectual property strategy in ipCG's premier podcast. Listen to the Podcast
Combination products frequently rely on innovations from a number of different
sources. Thus, it is crucial for all participants to understand the IP issues
related to product development and commercialization. Michael Bielski, Senior
Associate, and Christine Ford explain in "Combination
Products and Intellectual Property."
This article was published in the April 2007 edition of Medical Product Outsourcing.
Companies and their shareholders stand to benefit from the development and
promotion of their IP portfolios as described in "How
to Communicate the Real Value of Your Intellectual Assets to Wall Street."
Chris Rose, John Cronin, and Rachael Schwartz share their insights in the March-April
2007 edition of Research-Technology Management.
Determining how patents stack up within an industry is a challenge, especially
in dynamic sectors such as renewable energy and environmental technology. Nancy
Edwards Cronin considers the value of patent scoring in "Patenting
Model Lets Companies Assess IP Strength."
Additional information is available on energy
and environmental technologies and patent
scoring.
Is innovation part of your growth strategy? At a time when U.S. investments
in R&D exceed $200 billion, it seems that many businesses are looking to innovation
as the foundation of a sustainable competitive advantage. Our Winter 2007 edition
of Growth
Strategies explores
the connection between innovation, corporate resilience, and IP strategy.
If you're merging or acquiring, you can creatively map patent data on a strategically developed framework that will show strengths or weaknesses of IP portfolio combinations. Douglas Roth, Senior Manager, illustrates this process in "Treasure Map." This article was published in the July/August 2006 issue of Corporate Dealmaker magazine.
In the near future, many insurance companies may be taken completely by surprise
when one innovative leader captures large expanses of IP space in the insurance
industry. John Cronin, Managing Director & Chairman, and Rachael Schwartz, Senior
Manager, describe this trend and offer possible solutions in "Insurance
Industry: Poised to Generate Significant Value from Patenting."
How do you ensure that all partners enjoy IP benefits in a joint venture? Nancy
Edwards Cronin, Principal, and John Cronin, Managing Director & Chairman, are
the authors of "It's All in Your Point of View." This article appeared
in the March/April 2006 issue of Corporate Dealmaker magazine.
John Cronin, Managing Director & Chairman, and Douglas Roth, Senior Manager,
are the authors of "Strategic Licensing: Securing Value From Innovation."
This article first appeared in issue 13 of Intellectual Asset Management magazine,
published by Globe White Page, London, UK.
Nancy Edwards Cronin, Principal, is the author of "Impact of Sarbanes-Oxley
on IAM Personnel and Executives." This article first appeared in issue
7 of Intellectual Asset Management magazine, published by Globe White Page,
London, UK.
John Cronin, Managing Director & Chairman, and Rachael Schwartz, Senior
Manager, co-authored "Developing the Nanotech Patent Portfolio," within
the article, "Patent Challenges for Nanotech Investors." This
article first appeared in issue 2 of Intellectual Asset Management magazine,
published by Globe White Page, London, UK.
