Documenti di Didattica
Documenti di Professioni
Documenti di Cultura
in R&D DEPARTMENTS
AND MANAGING TREBLE DAMAGES RISK
Bob stembridge
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1.
Fast Innovation: Achieving Superior Differentiation, Speed to Market, and Increased Profitability, Michael L. George.
2.
Business Modalities, http://bizmodal.wordpress.com/2009/10/24/5-biggest-mistakes-companies-make-in-harnessing-innovation/
October 24, 2009.
3.
http://www.examiner.com/technology-in-detroit/why-88-of-ideas-fail-to-make-it-to-market, April 29, 2010.
4.
Biotechnology Industry Organization, “What is the purpose of a patent?”, http://www.bio.org/ip/primer/patentpurpose.asp.
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The description of the invention is made component of the innovation process is the ability
publicly available so that others can benefit for those involved in it to be able to collaborate
from that knowledge; this latter point gives with one another, real time, regardless of where
rise to published patent documents. It is they are located and whether they are internal to
these documents that form the richest and the organization or part of an Open Innovation
most valuable source of technical information initiative.
available.
Up to 80% of technology
described in patents is not
disclosed anywhere else.5
Engineers and R&D professionals must be able
The ready availability of a vast body of technical
to access relevant information within their areas
information contained in patents across all
of interest, including patents, scientific articles,
technologies in turn drives the innovation process
business data, and news information, and share
through stimulation of ideas and development
it with fellow research professionals. This sharing
of methods for improvement over what has been
and collaborating will speed the innovation
described before, incentivized by the reward of
process and help organizations develop new
exclusive rights over the new invention.
solutions to existing problems, bringing them to
Collaboration and sharing of market more quickly and helping meet customer
information demands sooner.
5.
8th USPTO Technology Assessment and Forecast Report. Section II: “The uniqueness of patents as a technological resource”, USPTO 1977.
6.
Managing the Risk of Collaboration Tools,” Kurt Johnson, July 30, 2007.
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The implementation of this is best achieved and interpret key commercial and technical
through an integrated information search and information as well as easily understand the
delivery system that provides the relevant latest technology protected by their own
information to users across the organization, organization.
and let’s them manage their innovation process
regardless of which department or time zone
they are in.
7.
Business Week article, “The World’s Most Innovative Companies”, April 24, 2006.
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8.
“8 Ways to Make Sure that Collaboration Adds Business Value,” Noel Rath, March 23, 2010.
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9.
“Patinformatics For Strategic Technology Management”, Dr P Ganguli, SIS Conference Pune, India Dec 2009.
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