Stark procedural differences have grown between US and European in-house legal departments. Rees Morrison of General Counsel Metrics looks at recent benchmark findings on the subject and explains the underlying trendsEuropean and US in-house legal departments differ significantly from each other on ...
IP agent networks stretch around the globe and through every industry sector. Donal O’Connell and Sabine Baum outline best practice for managing those networks and turning them into crucial business assets One of the most essential elements in supporting a global intellectual property (IP) po ...
Collaborative innovation is an attractive method for reaching new discoveries. However, writes patent expert Donal O’Connell, the pitfalls of joint rights ownership can undo even the best intentionsJoint innovation stems from an honourable part of the human intellect – but for those who take par ...
Legal services outsourcing plays an important supporting role for companies seeking to standardise routine legal processes and tasks. But providers and their employees are also becoming more sophisticated in the services that they provide, as Emma Jones reports from CPA Global’s operations in Delh ...