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ipCG is beginning to see a “cross pollination” happen in the brewing industry. Specifically with Robot Process Automation (RPA) which is a form of Artificial Intelligence.
POSTED BY John Cronin AT 12:20 P.M. Nov 20, 2018 It’s been two decades since Intellectual Property (IP) and its development became a defining element in investment strategies for parties on both sides of the negotiation table. In the late 1990’s, investors wanted their dot-com startup companies to have patents, as it would help the company appear …
Michael Baker and Kennyn Statler, Consulting Manager, and are co-authors of “CRISPR Decision Highlights the Importance of Strategic Claims Drafting“. The battle over CRISPR (Clustered regularly-interspaced short palindromic repeats) patents highlights the importance of having a sound patent strategy before filing the first disclosure. The University of California v. Broad Institute, Inc. is an excellent example of …
BY: Kennyn Statler and Michael Baker CRISPR Decision Highlights the Importance of Strategic Claims Drafting The battle over CRISPR (Clustered regularly-interspaced short palindromic repeats) patents highlights the importance of having a sound patent strategy before filing the first disclosure. The University of California v. Broad Institute, Inc. is an excellent example of the difference a well-executed strategy …
POSTED BY John Cronin AT 9:22 A.M. Oct 24, 2018 When deciding where to file patents, that is, what other countries should a patent be filed in other than the inventor’s home country, there are important considerations that need to be evaluate and weighed against each other. This creates a “foreign filings decision matrix” approach. Here are some …
POSTED BY John Cronin AT 6:28 P.M. Oct 17, 2018 Here is an excerpt from ipCG’s latest whitepaper: What is AI, and what does it have to do with IAM or IP? 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 …
POSTED BY John Cronin AT 12:46 P.M. Oct 17, 2018 The day has come where large innovation labs built by companies may not be needed. Why spend hundreds of millions to billions of dollars on a physical structure, staffed with creative people and equipped with the best tools, when this all can be virtualized? In this context, …
POSTED BY John Cronin AT 11:37 A.M. Oct 9, 2018 When considering starting the AI journey, unlike in the past, it is not enough to have expert people working on the project, installing processes with standard, simplified procedures in a Microsoft Office program or with extremely well-known tools like patent office databases, etc. Now, in order to …
POSTED BY John Cronin AT 11:58 A.M. Oct 5, 2018 For many years, those working at licensing and patent sales for hundreds of buyers and sellers have always realized that “telling the story” was essential. An industry standard, if not the industry standard, was a 2-pager flyer with sections on Business, Market, Technology, Valuation, and Claims Charting, etc. to …
POSTED BY Chris Huffines AT 4:23 P.M. Sep 18, 2018 In the last blog post, the basic types of intellectual property (IP) were discussed. But there are other types of more specialized IP that don’t fall into the basic categories. Today, those types, which are “neither fish nor fowl” will be discussed. Mask WorksA mask work (or integrated …
POSTED BY John Cronin AT 1:32 P.M. Sep 14, 2018 There is no question that large artificial intelligence (AI) solutions to solve the numerous efficiency and quality needs in the intellectual property (IP)/intellectual asset management (IAM) space will fail. This has been seen with companies that have tried to bring in a generalized AI engine to solve …
POSTED BY Chris Huffines AT 8:18 P.M. Sep 4, 2018 This post is the first in a series talking about the basics of intellectual property. Intellectual property, specifically, consists of those rights associated with knowledge and creation, not land and buildings (real property) or physical things (personal property/chattel). In this first post, the various types of intellectual …