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10 ways to manage and evaluate your IP
Check out the ten general principles for the effective management and valuation of IP...  »
Keep your IP ownership rights up to date
A number of high-profile cases have emphasised the importance of keeping IP ownership rights current and up to date. Here’s how to implement a robust recordal strategy and avoid jeopardising your IP....  »
Building a tax strategy for IP owners
Company shareholders are not the only ones to have sat up and taken notice of the value of intangible assets, says PricewaterhouseCoopers' Axel Smits ...  »
The IP guide to… Auction sites
The battle against the sale of counterfeit goods through online trading platforms is an expensive and time-consuming exercise for brand owners. And recent conflicting rulings for and against the eBay ....  »
The Patents Act 1977: Understanding ‘outstanding benefit’
When does an employee’s contribution to a patented invention become worthy of additional compensation?...  »
Biopiracy: ‘We must protect the IP of indigenous communities’
The IP of indigenous communities has been subject to infringement by developed countries for time immemorial. Now is the time to crack down on biopiracy and the unlawful use of ‘traditional knowledg....  »
State of the UK legal industry: the in-house view
Legal Strategy Review has conducted research among UK-based corporate legal departments to find the real issues facing the legal sector this year. Hit hard by the recession, under pressure to cap fees....  »
Brave New World? Rodney De Boos examines Australia’s legal industry
As law firms in the UK begin to prepare for the industry changes that will result from the Legal Services Act in 2010, writes Emma Jones, many are looking to the legal landscape in Australia for answe....  »
12 Ways to improve the tender process
Many legal teams decide to select a panel of firms or otherwise procure legal services via requests for proposals. Rees Morrison sets out 12 ways to improve the tender process...  »
The INTA Annual Meeting
This year’s get-together of trademark professionals at the Annual Meeting of the International Trademark Association (INTA) looks set to be the biggest yet...  »