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19 May 2020

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Innovations to Bolster the Post COVID-19 Era

The new stay-at-home economy provides opportunity for innovators to help people thrive in their new routines. To succeed in a WFH environment, workers will need access to resources and support to overcome the challenges of virtual workspaces and practices.

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05 May 2020

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Applying Supply Chain Principles to IP Prosecution

How can large-scale supply chain operations strategies within organizations be applied to IP workflows within your organization? Our colleague @Drew Travis discusses how to apply supply chain principles to IP persecution.

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22 Apr 2020

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A Clarion Call to Change

5 Pro-Tips for positioning yourself-- and your portfolio—for a possible recession due to the pandemic situation stemming from Covid-19.
The post outlines tips to help Intellectual Property Deparments to react on a possible recession.

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07 Apr 2020

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Who owns the IPR for AI creations?

We are arguably very close to a time in the future in which computers will have the same, if not more intellectual capacity than humans. Then who owns the IPR for AI creations? According to the UK’s IP office, an AI cannot be listed as an inventor of a patent in a patent application as an AI is not a physical person. The intense debate continues...

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24 Mar 2020

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Artificial intelligence (AI) as a creator of Intellectual Property (IP)

We currently find ourselves going through an intense worldwide period of innovation and the development of artificial intelligence is leading us towards an unavoidable fundamental change.
According to data provided by WIPO (The World Intellectual Property Organization), in terms of artificial intelligence and robotics, an increase in the number of patent software rights and even rules governing corporate secrets can be observed.

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10 Mar 2020

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Silicon Hills – the Next Hub for Innovation

In recent years, Austin has adopted the nickname “Silicon Hills.” Similar to its California counterpart, Austin has become an epicenter in the tech space. Austin is home to several leading tech and semiconductor companies such as Dell, NXP, HP, Google, AMD, Apple, Applied Materials, Cirrus Logic, Facebook, and Oracle.

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25 Feb 2020

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Taking the time to direct strategy

IP departments should algo go through an annual operating plan process, assess their strategies and learn about the modernized workflows that technology has aided in creating.

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28 Jan 2020

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How to use unregistered IP to generate growth

Intellectual property is a fantastic driver of economic growth. Protecting IP allows you to put a product on the market in an exclusive fashion, allowing you to demand a price premium for your invention. Intellectual Property rights are not just essential but are also a proven significant driver to generate growth.

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03 Dec 2019

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Eight reasons for choosing an IP portfolio management company to coordinate your filing processes

Engaging an external partner that specializes in intellectual property services can be of great benefit to many companies. There are countless suppliers on the market providing specific services, but having several suppliers only fragments the services that your portfolio requires.

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13 Nov 2019

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FRAND licensing and why is so important for technical standards

FRAND is the acronym for Fair, Reasonable And Non-Discriminatory. It generally comes up in antitrust cases when an owner of intellectual property rights (IPR) refuses to grant a license on FRAND terms. FRAND is a big part of how many of the world’s busiest filers license their patents.

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29 Oct 2019

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What is a Standard Essential Patent (SEP)?

A standard-essential patent (SEP) claims an invention that must be used to comply with a technical standard. All the information you need to understand how SEPs work by SHIP Global IP.

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10 Jul 2018

Requirements for patenting software or apps in Europe

Applications and software have improved the quality of our lives and have become very valuable. What requirements must we meet to patent our application?

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05 Jun 2018

The inventive step: requirement for patentability

Inventive step is one of the requirements (after innovation and industry) to patent a product. Consult all the information available on this requirement

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08 May 2018

Patents as the key to technological information

Patents, all the technical and technological information you need for your research, courtesy of companies like SHIP

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03 Apr 2018

Five weird patents and ingenious solutions

5 weird patents you would never have thought could be registered You too can bring out your inner inventor and patent something

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18 Dec 2017

Patents to Protect your Company

Company protection: in this article we explain why patents have become essential for the economy, Amazon as a case study, and SHIP’s services

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20 Nov 2017

How patents for colors and compositions work

It is now possible to patent colors and compositions and SHIP explains how you can protect what is yours or what you invented

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11 Oct 2017

New EU trademark reforms in force starting on October 1st, 2017

The EU trademark reform is a relevant advancement in administrative practice. Its goal is to make the system more efficient, clearer and more harmonized. Since October 1st, Regulation (EU) 2017/1001 of the European Parliament and the...

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08 Aug 2017

The importance of patents

patents, in this article we describe why patents are the legal guarantee to protect an idea and benefit from it in the mid term

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07 Aug 2017

Unitary patent: Germany may block entering into force of Unitary Patent at the beginning of 2018

In the middle of June, the German newspaper "Frankfurter Allgemeine" reported that the German Constitutional Court requested the President of the Federal Republic of Germany not to proceed with the ratification of the UPCA, which has already been approved by...

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