From November 2004, the IP Matters column will no longer be updated. But our KnowledgeLink newsletter will bring you monthly incisive articles on hot topics in information management across business, industry and academia.

Full List of IP Matters Feature Articles

 

Accountancy and Economics

• Cutting the cost of developing IP in the UK
• How BT re-engineered its patent portfolio
• Accounting for intellectual property
• The Value of Intellectual Property, Intangible Assets and Goodwill
• The Creative Economy
• Using patent filing activity to map country performance
• Gordon Petrash on Intellectual Asset Management Practice

Business trends and issues

• Protect and Survive: Managing Intellectual Property in the Far East - The Case of Japan
• Why the parents' friend is a champion of IP rights
• Patenting activities of the Nasdaq 100
• Patenting process: for the SME, does size really matter?
• Patents - irrelevant to the SME?
• Utilising patent data to find new markets
• Rankings of the most innovative companies by patent filings
• Patent information usage in British Small and Medium Sized Enterprises

Copyright and Trade Secrets

• The secrets of trade secrets
• Copyright in the age of the Internet

European Issues

• 2001 European Patent Office update
• BRANDS IN EUROPE - Will 'parallel imports' be permitted?
• Is European innovation really lagging its competitors?
• The Community Patent - necessity or white elephant?
• Cross-Border Litigation over European Patents
• Parallel Imports in Europe
• Discussion of European patent system

IP Legislation and Rulings

• Federal Circuit to Decide Scope of Drug Patents During Term Extension Period
• Supreme Court confirms change in US patent landscape
• The Patent Law Treaty

IP Management

• Why the parents' friend is a champion of IP rights
• The UK Intellectual Property Managers' Forum
• WTO - Compulsory Licensing in the Developing World
• Technology Licensing in Academia: Europe and the US, Never the Twain Shall Meet?
• The growing importance of licensing

IP Problems/Solutions

• 'The answer to the machine is in the machine'
• It's Time For "IP-Free" Zones

IP in Developing Countries

• WTO - Compulsory Licensing in the Developing World
• Protecting intellectual property in developing countries

Information searching

• Library World Records
• Getting just what you need: Strategies for search, taxonomy and classification
• The patent library: an obituary
• Information Partnerships for Competitive Advantage
• Patent metadata: now you see them, now you don't
• Overcoming the problems with patents - how far have we come?
• Using the Internet for non-patent prior art searches
• Free versus Fee-based Information Services
• Interview with Charles Oppenheim, Professor of Information Science

Internet / Domain names

• Preparing now for .EU
• Domain name management strategy
• IP Portals - windows on the world of intellectual property
• Internet sparks patenting controversy
• Domain names and trademarks: uncomfortable bedfellows?

Nanotechnology

• Nano-robots not yet on patenting horizon
• Storage Media Dominates Nanotech Device Patenting
• Lab-on-a-chip: smaller, cleaner, cheaper, faster
• Nanotech patents - the next big thing

Patent Offices

• Origins and activities of the Eurasian Patent Organization
• USPTO Proposes Revised Strategic Plan

Patenting Reviews and trends

• Patent Focus Report 2004 - Part 2
• Patent Focus Report 2004 - Part 1
• 2003 Patent Focus Report: issues for the trilateral offices
• Thomson Derwent Patent Focus 2001-2

Patenting life

• The future for patents on life
• Structural Genomics - Patent Law Untested
• Single nucleotide polymorphisms point to genetic disease diagnosis/cure
• Patent applications of genetic sequences on the up

Pharmaceutical Industry issues

• Patenting in the biopharmaceutical industry - comparing the US with Europe
• Pharma companies on the back foot
• Patents and agriculture - foot and mouth

Software and business methods

• Legislative changes in Japan and their effect on Software Patents
• Business methods: are they protectable or unpatentable?
• New EU rules for patenting software inventions
• Software, business methods - patentable in Europe?

Technology

• CAD system IP Rights - entering a new dimension
• Wireless Communication - Is the Future Bright?
• The rise and fall of PC monitor components