CFI Opens The Door To Justifying Restrictions On Parallel Trade
Alec BurnsideLinklaters, Brussels, Belgium On 27 September 2006, the European Court of First Instance (CFI) partially annulled the European Commission Decision condemning GlaxoSmithKline’s policy of charging higher prices for Spanish products destined for export. The judgement marks another step in the pro¬longed debate between antitrust authorities and pharmaceutical companies on the legitimacy of inhibiting parallel […]
Patents As Assets And Liabilities: Patents Can Serve Various Purposes
Francis HagelIntellectual Property Manager, Compagnie Generale de Geophysique, Massy, France The current trend of characterising patents as assets entails a risk: when considering the economic aspects of patents it tends to restrict the scope of analysis to the patent rights owned by the company and their valuation. However for a company which owns and exploits […]
Licensing To Promote Global Health Partnerships
Tari SupraptoPhD, Assistant Director, Office of Technology Transfer, Rockefeller University, New York, N.Y., U.S.A. The Global Forum for Health Research (www.globalforumhealth.org) recently published a two volume report titled Global Forum Update on Research for Health 2005. In summary this report showed that there is a disparity in the research effort to improve healthcare between developed […]
Value And Quality Based Patent Portfolio Management
Dieter F. ReinhardtFormer Head of Corporate Licensing Center, Siemens AG, Munchen, Germany Alexander J. WurzerManaging Director, PATEV GmbH & Co. KG, Munich, and Visiting Professor, CEIPI, Centre of Intellectual Property Studies in Europe, Robert Schuman University, Strasbourg, and Director, Steinbeis-Transfer-Institution for Intellectual Property Management, Steinbeis Univeristy, Berlin Patents have taken over additionally to their original […]
Rembrandts In The Attic, Toys In The Attic, Or Clowns In A Volkswagen?
Daniel I. Jamison IVSenior Director, IP Business Development, Skyworks Solutions, Inc., Woburn, M.A., U.S.A. One current corporate practice is to develop a business model (or business unit) around your company’s intellectual property (IP) portfolio. The literature and press over the last decade has posited some divergent views of the strategic, tactical, and operational methodologies required […]
The Global Patent Value Matrix: Making Global Patent Strategy Decisions
William A. BarrettPresident, Patent Strategies, PLLVC, Triangle Park, N.C., U.S.A. Dr. Christopher H. PriceLeader, Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology, Liquidia Technologies in Research, Triagnle Park, N.C., U.S.A. Because technology innovation is becoming more globalized it is now more important than ever to develop a strategic understanding of the intellectual property (IP) protections available for that innovation. For […]
U.S./Canadian Licensing In 2005 – Survey Results
Richard RazgaitisSenior Advisor, CRA International Inc. and President, Licensing Foundation The data reported here are from the third annual survey of the licensing industry of the United States and Canada taken by the Licensing Foundation in cooperation with LES (USA & Canada). The ambitious reference to the licensing industry is however confined to the perspective […]
Patent Trolls: A Stereotype Causes A Backlash Against Patents And Licensing
John C. PaulAttorney, Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP D. Brian KacedonAttorney, Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP Michael V. O’ShaugnessyAttorney, Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP From the many well publicized success stories there is broad awareness that patent licensing can provide a good source for generating revenue. This holds true […]
Swords Into Plowshares: How Tech Transfer (Unless We Mess It Up) Can Help Change The World
Joseph AllenVice-President and General Manager, IP Management Group, West Virginia High Technology Consortium Foundation, Wheeling, West Virginia, U.S.A. There is a pressing need for our profession to speak up on what we are about. A little reflection shows that what we are really doing is fostering international economic development. And what could be more important […]
Bayh-Dole: Don’t Turn Back The Clock
Senator Birch BayhPartner, Venable LLP, Washington, D.C., U.S.A. After a quarter century of what by most objective standards has been an exceptional success, the Bayh-Dole law is under increasing attack today. Most of the attacks have come from individuals who have little experience with the comprehensive nature of how the law is implemented. They do […]
