Energy & Resources
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....  »
How to manage your intellectual capital
The role of intellectual capital in business is undervalued, under-managed and under-exploited, and there is still too little coordination between the different professionals dealing with an organisat....  »
10 ways to manage and evaluate your IP
Check out the ten general principles for the effective management and valuation of 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 ...  »
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....  »
WIPO’s new director general, Dr Francis Gurry, on the “technical mission of WIPO”
WIPO’s new director general, Dr Francis Gurry, has the unenviable task of leading the organisation into a new era of IP policy says Edward Fennell. Here, Gurry outlines his priorities and the challe....  »
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...  »
Six ways to reduce the cost of litigation
Here are six ways to reduce the cost of arbitration – without reducing your chances of winning your case...  »
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...  »
Corporate Social Responsibility: Are you serving society?
Many law firms have been dedicating valuable time and resources to pro bono work since the 1980s, but it’s only recently that corporate social responsibility has risen up the law firm agenda, writes....  »