Intellectual property protection is key to maximising profits from innovation...
Protecting Your Business With IP
Hamish Corner, a Partner in the Intellectual Property Group at London law firm Charles Russell LLP, explains why your intellectual property is more important than ever when doing business in Europe.
Intellectual property is often misunderstood. Many businesses think they don’t really have any. Many more consider it an expensive extra, which is only really relevant to the technology sector. But both of these propositions are fundamentally wrong. Here’s why ...read more
Corporate Spies & IP Investigators: Global View
Recent legal cases have highlighted the need for companies and law firms to exercise care when retaining external investigators.
Graham Robinson, Managing Director of Farncombe International, the largest intellectual property investigations company in Europe, examines some of the legal issues that face investigators and their clients ...read more
Create, Protect and Commercialise IP in the Global Marketplace
Jackie Maguire, CEO Coller IP Management, says that despite the market downturn, new opportunities to trade internationally are still being created at a rapid pace. This offers new dimensions for companies operating on a world stage. However, companies need to ensure that, in taking advantage of these new opportunities, they do not leave themselves open to exploitation ...read more
Using IP As Loan Collateral
Intellectual Property (IP) - patents, trade marks, copyright and designs - is often overlooked as security for business financing. Up to 80% of a company’s value can lie in its IP, writes Ben Goodger ...read more
Effective Use of IP Investigators for Brand Strategy
Many brand owners do not appreciate the assistance that investigators can provide to exploit their intellectual property, writes Graham Robinson ...read more
'Least Privileged IP Access' - Apply The Principle
"With nearly every facet of large enterprises' operations now dependent on or supported by automated systems, risks related to unauthorised or inappropriate access to these resources can appear anywhere within an organisation at any time and spread rapidly through the business," writes Brian Cleary, Vice President of Products and Marketing at Aveksa....read more
Weakened Security, Cost-Cutting IP Vulnerability
"With drastic work-style changes, shortcuts may be the obvious way of coping with greater workloads and often security can be weakened and a company’s IP could be exposed or made vulnerable as a result,"writes Mike Warriner, of technology and corporate law firm, White & Black...read more
Special Feature: The EU27 - Employment Law Issues for UK Businesses
Anna Beggan, a Partner and Head of the Employment Team at Tughans, one fo the UK's largest regional commercial law firms, discusses employment issues for businesses trading across Europe ...read more
