February 23rd, 2010 by sarah
This blog article provides an overview of the January 2010 Chevening Lecture by CambridgeIP’s Quentin Tannock. The lecture was hosted by the University of Cambridge Programme for Sustainability Leadership and is titled ‘The Economics of Climate Change: IP Ownership, Taking the Lead’. The lecture covers ethical and policy issues, the facts on the ground in terms of IP ownership, the impact of international conventions and national policies on IP activity and the range of options for technology transfer in Low Carbon Technology spaces.
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Tags: Busines Strategy, CambridgeIP, Chatham House, CleanTech, Climate Change, Copenhagen, Econmics, Intellectual Property, IP ownership, Patent Pool, TRIPS, UNFCCC, Wind Energy, WIPO
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February 9th, 2010 by sarah
Julian Hitchcock of Field Fisher Waterhouse LLP contributed this guest blog entry:
The grant of a patent for induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) in the United Kingdom in January and the notice issued by the US Patent and Trademark Office in February allowing claims under a US patent application entitled “Methods for Reprogramming Somatic Cells” signal a significant new feature of the stem cell patent landscape. But don’t imagine that stem cell patents are about to become straightforward.
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Tags: Embryo, induced pluripotent stem cells, IP Landscape, IP Strategy, iPierian, IPS, iPSC, iTSCs, patent, Stem Cells
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January 14th, 2010 by sarah
CambridgeIP’s Arthur Lallement presented at the Drug Delivery for Lungs conference at Edinburgh on December 9, 2009. Over four hundred senior scientists from the inhaler and respiratory disease industry attended the conference and shared some of the latest research in the inhaler space. You can see the full programme here and see the full presentation here. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: conference, inhaler, IP Strategy, lung disease, medical devices, patent landscape, patents, pMDI
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October 5th, 2009 by quentin
Unripe Fruit: How can we protect and market early stage technology? The second panel I sat on at the Tech Transfer Summit of EuroBio 2009 considered this question in a lively session with much audience participation.
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Tags: innovation disclosure, patent licensing, Patent Marketing, patent strategy, survey, technology transfer, triage, TTO, University patents
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September 30th, 2009 by quentin
Last week I participated on a panel in the Tech Transfer Summit at EuroBio 2009 that considered the topic of TTOs working with Corporate partners. The audience was a healthy mixture of major Pharma corporations, biotech companies and TTOs. And the panel session turned lively, with much audience participation.
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Tags: business intelligence, buying patents, innovation disclosure, licensing, market research, patent licensing, Patent Marketing, patent portfolio, Pharma, Procter & Gamble, technology transfer, triage, TTO, University patents
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September 10th, 2009 by ilian
“As a community of practitioners we can and should do more to provide innovative technology licensing solutions to our clients – in both the developed and developing world… As the market for low-carbon energy will increase exponentially, licensing solutions that may have been untenable in the past can become attractive” This was the opening statement by CambridgeIP’s Ilian Iliev presenting to a group of licensing
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Tags: CleanTech, IP Strategy, licensing, patent landscape, patent licensing, Renewable Energy, renewables, technology policy
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July 19th, 2009 by quentin
CambridgeIP was one of several firms from the East of England invited to a reception at 10 Downing Street by Prime Minister Gordon Brown. Firms were chosen in recognition of business success in overseas markets. I represented CambridgeIP at the reception, where I was struck by the diversity of products and services offered by attending businesses, and by the frank question and answer session that was conducted by the Minister for Trade and Investment Lord Davies and the Business Secretary Lord Mandelson.
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Tags: credit crisis, economy, export, recession, UKTI
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June 28th, 2009 by quentin
Earlier this week Quentin Tannock and Miranda Weston-Smith presented a tutorial on ‘marketing your technology in the credit crunch’ for representatives drawn from a select set of Technology Transfer Officers at four leading UK Universities. A recent CambridgeIP/PRAXIS survey illustrates the challenge faced by TTOs as they seek to efficiently market their technologies. Quentin and Miranda presented survey findings together with illustrative case studies demonstrating how fact-based IP analysis can accelerate your technology market research and technology licensing.
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Tags: patent licencing, patent licensing, Patent Marketing, patent strategy, PCT, survey, TTO, tutorial, University patents
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June 5th, 2009 by quentin
‘Green’ innovations can now be fast-tracked through the UK patent system. The ability to choose between accelerated or normal patent search and examination procedures will be welcomed by participants in the CleanTech sector in the UK.
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Tags: China, CleanTech, environment, Fast-track, Green, IP Strategy, patent application, patent examination, patent search, patent strategy, patent system, time to market, USA
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March 14th, 2009 by quentin
In partnership with Praxis, the Technology Transfer Training organisation, we recently surveyed technology transfer executives from 25 leading United Kingdom Universities and research institutes on the topic of ‘marketing patents’. The results make fascinating reading.
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Tags: patent licencing, patent licensing, Patent Marketing, patent sale, patent strategy, survey, technology transfer, University patents
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