More high impact research from the CambridgeIP-Boliven team

• Marketing your technology in the credit crunch

  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.

• IP & Climate Change: Crosslicensing, Patent Pools and Cooperative Standards

  

  It has become increasingly accepted that adoption and diffusion of technologies in developing countries crucially depends on creating a suitable enabling environment. Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) play a key role in determining the channels and terms of such technology transfer.

  This paper takes a fact-based approach by exploring how in practice industries have dealt with IPRs.

• Responsible Licensing for the Developing World

  _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 executives, IP managers and IP lawyers at London_s science museum on the topic of _Responsible Licensing for the Developing World_.

• Harvard Business Review: 'Can Technology Really Save Us from Climate Change?'

  Harvard Business Review cites IP analysis in the Cleantech space done by CambridgeIP and Chatham House as a potential market tool to help direct the future clean-tech landscape more effectively. In addition, the article postulates on the potential influence of IP analysis to methodologically underpin a 'Moore's Law' for clean technology

• Challenges & Opportunities in Licensing Renewable Technologies

  

  The article describes a new initiative dedicated to the licensing of renewables, framed within a discussion of the current issues and challenges of establishing and licensing renewable technologies.

• Business Strategy: Putting IP at the Centre

  CambridgeIP contributed to the Innovation UK report on the topic of IP strategy. An effective IP strategy can become a centerpiece for a company's internationalisation strategy: providing it with leverage and protection across diverse markets, facilitating the generation of additional revenue through licensing activity, as well as currency for negotiating with large corporate partners.

• Patents and Potency: The Stem Cell Patent Landscape

  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.

• Harvard Business Review: 'Can Technology Really Save Us from Climate Change?'

  Harvard Business Review cites IP analysis in the Cleantech space done by CambridgeIP and Chatham House as a potential market tool to help direct the future clean-tech landscape more effectively. In addition, the article postulates on the potential influence of IP analysis to methodologically underpin a 'Moore's Law' for clean technology

• Telehealth technology comes of age?

  

  CambridgeIP patent landscaping research finds that up to 89% of medical device patents involve wireless technology. The research, covering more than 26,000 telehealth related patents, has identified emerging patenting hotspots and changing market dynamics in telehealth technologies. Read CambridgeIP’s press release to find out more. You can also download the report. Here on Boliven.com, you can conduct your own analysis of the underlying patent datasets by visiting our blood glucose monitors Boliven Landscape.

• Patent Citations, Geographic Spread and the role of China as a patent destination

  In CambridgeIP's report on AIM-listed patent-intensive companies they identified a subset of 68 AIM-listed companies that represent the bulk of patenting activity: out of more than 1,600 total companies. This is just one of the many interesting findings that can be found in the discussion of the report here.

• Patents: When to sell & when to buy

  The opportunity exists in these pressing economic times for the canny investor to secure patents at a fraction of past prices. Moreover, there may be an increased opportunity to selectively acquire high value IP assets, rather than needing to acquire the IP bundled with other assets of less value to the investor.

• Protecting and Growing Corporate Assets: A Strategic Case

  CambridgeIP's Ilian Iliev was a guest contributor to BusinessXL's special October edition focused on 'Why IP matters'. In his article Ilian argues that despite the downturn, a comprehensive and strategically integrated IP strategy remains key to long-term value creation.

• Advanced Corporate Uses of Patent-based Intelligence

  CambridgeIP_s Ilian Iliev and Quentin Tannock led a workshop for the Licensing Executives Society for Britain and Ireland (LES-BI). The workshop_s focus was on Advanced Corporate Uses of Patent-based Intelligence_ in the context of an economic slowdown. The 30+ participants included IP managers from major corporations, University Technology Transfer Offices and SMEs; as well as IP service providers.

• Technology Transfer Offices (TTOs) working with Corporate partners

  Quentin Tannock 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 mixture of major Pharma corporations, biotech companies and TTOs.

• The Bulgarian Innovation System in a Time of Global Economic Crisis

  

  CambridgeIP was a contributor to the annual report Innovation.BG 2009, the leading innovation review for Bulgaria's economy, published by ARC Fund. CambridgeIP's analysis helped identify the historical IP outputs of Bulgaria and the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.