By: The Michelson Institute for Intellectual Property Executive Editor: Chief Judge Paul Michel, US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (retired) and Board Member, Intellectual Property Owners Education Foundation The primary goal of a patent is to...
By: The Michelson Institute for Intellectual Property Executive Editor: Manny Schecter, Chief Patent Counsel, IBM. Corp. and President, Intellectual Property Owners Education Foundation Why would one choose protecting intellectual property (IP) that one...
This is Part 1 of our ‘Basics of IP’ blog series on what can be patented. The following has been adapted from “Can I Patent That?”, a Michelson IP animated short. Say you’ve got a genius idea… and you’d like to patent it. The first thing...
If you’re working with others on projects where intellectual property (IP) may be developed in the process, you’ll likely want to take into account issues of joint authorship and the work for hire agreement. These are complex, multifaceted topics. In this blog post,...
In our previous article, Top 5 Things Every Entrepreneur Should Know About Copyrights, we shared that “Copyright protection extends beyond creative works into business documents, presentations, marketing materials, and even computer code. This means many items created...
Developed by our friends at the Zürich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW) School of Management and Law in Switzerland and led by Dr. Ben Graziano, the Intellectual Property (IP) Canvas is a strategic management tool devised to help startups efficiently gain insight...
