Negotiating Patent Purchase Agreements

Randomly saw this in my twitter feed. Actually useful overview:

Invention extraction made simple

Hello everyone. 

Just posted the below to twitter regarding how to grow a companies IP, thought it was useful and wanted to republish here: 

Stay simple - focus on the 5 core stages in invention extraction: brainstorm, synthesize, prioritize, expand, protect.

Brainstorm w/ individuals or groups, look for both whitespace ideas and current development projects. Critical point - ID the right problems

Synthesize ideas by generalizing and grouping to focused themes. Remove the unnecessary. Ask if X is a specific example of Y. Find the Y's.

To prioritize ideas 1) set the criteria 2) choose a ranking schema 3) assemble a diverse ranking team 4) rank in private 5) discuss together

To expand inventions - take every descriptor in the synthesized idea, and treat it as an axis about which an invention can be developed.

To protect ideas, understand the strategic landscape from a business, tech, and legal perspective, then apply the best IP tool (patent, etc)

Hope this is useful. 

Best,

Erin-Michael

White House Easter Egg Roll

Good reporting

(Reporter Sara-Jayne Adams of the UK's Intellectual Asset Management and Erin-Michael Gill)

Sara-Jane Adams has pulled together a number of IP professionals for this months cover story (registration required) on fighting back against the IP backlash, especially with respect to international perceptions of IP. Interesting topic and bit of a surprising read.

Also, I recently started Twittering (http://twitter.com/gillip_com). While it is not exactly an outlet for the kind of in depth IP journalism one might find in IAM, it is a good place to park small interesting insights from time to time. Here's my latest tweet:

gillip_comNote the portfolio license option - MSFT offered all YHOO's IP at a discount b/c of search deal. Good value for both -http://bit.ly/13yQ4m

The longer point is that the IP provisions in the Yahoo search deal could seed a broader collaboration with Microsoft. Allowing MSFT to incorporate YHOO technology - even at a discount - would at least be new revenue into YHOO, and could be a valuable test drive of sorts leading to something far more significant down the road.

Anyway, if you would like to follow my feed, feel free.

Cheers,

e^(ip)