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The team player
Horacio Gutierrez has been
Microsoft’s chief intellectual property
officer for three years now. In that
time he has built a 200-strong team
and dealt with issues fundamental to
the company’s future
Europe needs an EPO leader to tackle its many patent problems
Alison Brimelow is standing
down as the president of the
EPO in 2010. Her successor
will have a huge job to do. And
that means the best person for
the job must get it
IA metrics for the other IP market
Risk and reputation management is
a natural extension of intellectual
property management, but it is an
area of business operations in need
of much greater support
IV shifts gear
With a mountain of money in the
bank and a wide-ranging
investment strategy, Intellectual
Ventures continues to drive the IP
market forwards
Putting the IAM function at the heart of corporate strategy
Almost all readers of this magazine
understand the strategic importance
of IP to companies’ competitiveness
and financial performance. The
challenge is to make the C-suite see
it too. Only a change in the way IP
value is communicated will help
Patents, incentives and a few crazy inventions
To encourage truly groundbreaking
innovation, a patent system must
also be able to tolerate other, more
bizarre inventions
Time for Big Pharma to be loud and proud
Big pharmaceutical companies may
have a poor reputation, but a close
look suggests it is not deserved.
The problem is that too many are
silent about the great deal of positive
work they do. GSK has decided to
break down this wall of silence
The elephant in the room
The United States is in the grip of
an expensive, low-quality, patentrelevance,
patent-production crisis
IP lawyerLoose ends
How to deal with the risks of tying
complaints following the European
Commission’s Microsoft cases
CIPO forumPatent reform: season to taste
Reconciling the myriad issues and
constituencies at play in the patent
reform debate requires a careful blend
of time and full understanding of
consequences
IP investorMessage in a bottle
When it comes to press coverage of IP
activities, even good reporters seldom
seem to get it right. That’s why most IP
executives would rather hide from
journalists than speak to them. They
don’t realise that they need the press
more than it needs them
Industry Focus: Consumer Electronics
This issue's featured industry data includes key patent metrics fior companies in the Consumer Electronics Industry
The value of IP in a recession
If history is any guide, companies that
invest in intellectual property in a recession
come out of the experience stronger than
those who choose to wait for the economy
to improve, says Jeremy Rosie, Director,
Thomson Reuters IP Solutions
