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Comment on Main Street Catalysts: Patents, Immersion, and Passion by How Does Innovation Fit in a Nation with 20% Unemployment? | IP P®OSPE©TIVE

How Does Innovation Fit in a Nation with 20% Unemployment? | IP P®OSPE©TIVE — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 20:59:09 +0000

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Comment on The Value of IP as a Commodity by Sergey

Sergey — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 05:38:41 +0000

I think this decision give new opportunity for development of IP in the world.

Comment on IP Education in Developing African Countries by Breean Miller

Breean Miller — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 21:02:13 +0000

Great insight Trevor! Looking forward to reading more of your posts.

Comment on The Value of IP as a Commodity by Ian

Ian — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 16:00:08 +0000

Thanks Michael. The accounting piece to this puzzle will be maintained by an established registry business. The monitoring and auditing will be a collaborative effort between IPXI and a third-party auditing partner. I agree that these tasks are not insubstantial.

The ULR model will take time to become the efficient platform we think it can be. It will certainly require some adjusing of the model as it is rolled out.

Comment on The Value of IP as a Commodity by Michael F. Martin

Michael F. Martin — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 17:31:49 +0000

Nice article. I agree almost completely with your diagnosis of the problems (summarized in the action plan on page 37). I am a little more skeptical about how ULR will succeed in solving them — at least given the status quo.

The part of the plan that I am most skeptical about is the administrative costs of setting up and maintaining a clearinghouse for ULR. The accounting and auditing necessary to ensure compliance with the ULR contracts is not insubstantial. Keeping score isn’t as simple as checking publicly traded security prices — and even those scores can get too complicated to be tracked as we learned from the derivatives markets in 2008.

Lowering transactions costs is definitely the right goal. Just not sure that ULR is going to get us there.

Comment on Invent for Humanity – A Transparent Marketplace for Humanitarian Tech Transfer & IP Licensing by Sergey

Sergey — Wed, 18 May 2011 22:56:26 +0000

Quite right. Need new method for realization IP in the world.

Comment on Proof of a Burgeoning Market: Patenting IP Valuation Methods by Romale

Romale — Mon, 16 May 2011 19:29:14 +0000

My thoughts as well. But it’s coming.

Comment on Invent for Humanity – A Transparent Marketplace for Humanitarian Tech Transfer & IP Licensing by Bree Miller

Bree Miller — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 00:30:24 +0000

Thanks for posting, Ian!

Comment on New NPE on the Block: From Corporate Defender to Business-Savvy Aggressor by Jackie Hutter

Jackie Hutter — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 11:30:36 +0000

Great post, Ian. Nice to see you back. I made the following changes to the quote from Professor Duffy amended as in the brackets to highlight the BS nature of this “expert” opinion:

“On the negative side, they are given [the deed] for [land] they don’t [live on] and can sue other companies for [trespassing].”

Oh, well, guess he doesn’t hang out with the Property Law professor at GW.

Comment on A New Legal Landscape for IP: Ex-Ante Will Join Ex-Post Services by Ellen Stiefler

Ellen Stiefler — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 07:58:52 +0000

Hi Ian and Jackie,
I’m late to join your blog discussion party, but that’s because I only just discovered the mention (thank you Ian). Also, I’ve been busy having just the fun that Jackie was referring to.
My contribution to the ex-ante IP work is in the transmedia world. I do start by identifying my clients’ IP, which most often is a story or idea or talent. I blend IP and transmedia/entertainment/and business law with being a literary agent, licensed talent agent, manager. Sometimes I simply use the title “Transmedia Producer” because when you roll all those things into what I do, that is what it often comes down to.
As an example, I took the story of one of my clients, Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor, and brought it out in a bestselling book, My Stroke of Insight, in over 30 countries, also did a lot of promotion of my client’s story - as a TED Talk, on Oprah Winfrey’s shows, in print (NY Times), Radio (NPR), in fine art (music and ballet) and on and on. I’m even Executive Producing the major full length feature film, which Ron Howard is directing.
At the beginning, middle and end of Jill’s transmedia project, as with any other that I take on, is always the intellectual property protection, management and promotion.
Come visit me at TransmediaAgency dot com.