IP Valuation I repeatedly wax lyrical about not underestimating the value of intellectual property to your business. IP protects your key differentiators, the elements of your business offerings that set them apart from your competitors. To you (and your business), IP...
Essential IP for app developers I hear, all too often, that ‘apps can’ be patented’, but this is not necessarily true. Even if your app is not patentable, that does not necessarily mean that we cant place at least some valuable intellectual property...
I couldn’t let Valentines Day go past without picking up on one of the longest courtships in history. Barbie and Ken have, I’m sure, celebrated many Valentines Days together. And they have a sound IP strategy to thank for that. Barbie and Ken – how a...
Remember this? Rubik’s Cube® I remember when the Rubik’s cube® hit the shelves in shops around the UK. Years before the internet was invented, it nevertheless became an overnight sensation and everyone I knew had one. People started bragging about how quickly...
It’s amazing what you discover when you Google “female innovators”. One particularly notable innovator was none other than Hedy Lamarr, the star of the big screen in the 1920s. Publicity photo c.1940 Ahead of her time In her spare time, she worked on inventions of...
