WIPO recently published the World Intellectual Property Indicators 2018. It is detailed 231-page look at global IP (e.g., patent and trademark) activity:
From the Foreword:
"Against the backdrop of solid economic growth worldwide,
global intellectual property (IP) filing activity set
new records in 2017. Patent filings around the world
reached 3.17 million, representing a 5.8% growth on
2016 figures. Trademark filing activity totaled 12.39 million,
up 26.8% on 2016. Industrial design filing activity
exceeded 1.24 million. China remained the main driver
of global growth in IP filings. From already high levels,
patent filings in China grew by 14.2% and trademark
filing activity in China by 55.2%. These high growth
rates propelled China’s shares of global patent filings
and trademarks filing activity to reach 43.6% and
46.3%, respectively.
Japan (+24.2%) and the United States of America
(+12.6%) also saw strong growth in trademark filing
activity. However, both of those countries recorded
almost no growth in patent filings. The Republic of
Korea saw a decline in filing activity for patents and
trademarks for the second consecutive year. Other
notable trends include large increases in trademark
filing activity in the Islamic Republic of Iran (+87.9%),
the United Kingdom (+24.1%) and Canada (+19.5%).
With regard to industrial design filing activity, the United
Kingdom (+92.1%), Spain (+23.5%) and Switzerland
(+17.9%) saw double-digit growth in 2017."
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Tuesday, November 14, 2017
Forbes - USC Sees The Future With New Course Offering - Intellectual Property
In USC Sees The Future With New Course Offering, Marshall Phelps reports that University of Southern California is offering an intellectual property course for undergraduates through the Marshall Business School.
Here's an excerpt from the article: "... intellectual property is the new watchword for almost any career of the future. The only problem is, most of our higher education institutions haven't gotten the memo yet, and that’s a real bummer for young people.
Here’s why: Intellectual property (IP) now accounts for a whopping 38.2% of total U.S. GDP and 30% of total national employment. Yet despite IP's enormous role in the U.S. economy, almost no American universities offer any undergraduate courses on the basic workings of patents, copyrights, trademarks and trade secrets in U.S. social and economic life."
This “IP education gap” poses a real threat to U.S. leadership of the 21st century knowledge economy. To understand why, just imagine how U.S. leadership of the industrial economy of one hundred years ago would have been hamstrung had there been no Wharton School or Forbes or Harvard Business Review to teach industrial management and the organization of mass production enterprises to 20th century business leaders. Similar stakes exist today.
That’s why it’s such good news that the University of Southern California (USC) has stepped forward with a first-of-its-kind course for general undergraduates on the basics of IP. This new program, launched by the Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies within USC’s Marshall School of Business, will train tomorrow’s leaders in the skills they need to navigate our IP-driven economy. If successful, it will be rolled out to some 40 other colleges and universities nationwide.
Pioneered by USC President C. L. Max Nikias and billionaire medical inventor Dr. Gary Michelson, USC's new undergrad course — named “The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Intellectual Property” — launched this fall semester. Taught by Kirkland & Ellis partner Luke Dauchot, this innovative new course has already attracted a who’s who of IP luminaries as guest speakers.
These include former Patent Office director David Kappos, long-time Google head of patents and current Facebook IP chief Allen Lo, Dolby’s General Counsel Andy Sherman, Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi’s chief of IP strategy Paul Lin, and a dozen of the senior-most IP leaders of Apple, Nike, Teva Pharmaceuticals, Dollar Shave, and other high-flying IP-intensive companies."
Good job President Nikias and Dr. Michelson!
Note the author Marshall Phelps led the very profitable IBM and Microsoft patent licensing programs.
Copyright © 2017 Robert Moll. All rights reserved.
Here's an excerpt from the article: "... intellectual property is the new watchword for almost any career of the future. The only problem is, most of our higher education institutions haven't gotten the memo yet, and that’s a real bummer for young people.
Here’s why: Intellectual property (IP) now accounts for a whopping 38.2% of total U.S. GDP and 30% of total national employment. Yet despite IP's enormous role in the U.S. economy, almost no American universities offer any undergraduate courses on the basic workings of patents, copyrights, trademarks and trade secrets in U.S. social and economic life."
This “IP education gap” poses a real threat to U.S. leadership of the 21st century knowledge economy. To understand why, just imagine how U.S. leadership of the industrial economy of one hundred years ago would have been hamstrung had there been no Wharton School or Forbes or Harvard Business Review to teach industrial management and the organization of mass production enterprises to 20th century business leaders. Similar stakes exist today.
That’s why it’s such good news that the University of Southern California (USC) has stepped forward with a first-of-its-kind course for general undergraduates on the basics of IP. This new program, launched by the Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies within USC’s Marshall School of Business, will train tomorrow’s leaders in the skills they need to navigate our IP-driven economy. If successful, it will be rolled out to some 40 other colleges and universities nationwide.
Pioneered by USC President C. L. Max Nikias and billionaire medical inventor Dr. Gary Michelson, USC's new undergrad course — named “The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Intellectual Property” — launched this fall semester. Taught by Kirkland & Ellis partner Luke Dauchot, this innovative new course has already attracted a who’s who of IP luminaries as guest speakers.
These include former Patent Office director David Kappos, long-time Google head of patents and current Facebook IP chief Allen Lo, Dolby’s General Counsel Andy Sherman, Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi’s chief of IP strategy Paul Lin, and a dozen of the senior-most IP leaders of Apple, Nike, Teva Pharmaceuticals, Dollar Shave, and other high-flying IP-intensive companies."
Good job President Nikias and Dr. Michelson!
Note the author Marshall Phelps led the very profitable IBM and Microsoft patent licensing programs.
Copyright © 2017 Robert Moll. All rights reserved.
Friday, November 3, 2017
Northwest University Kellogg School of Management - Waiting to Protect Intellectual Property Could Doom Your Startup
Northwest Kellogg School of Management's publishes a free online magazine that has a section on entrepreneurship with well written articles on innovation and intellectual property (IP) that is worth checking out. For example, here's an article that may help startups seeking to protect their IP: Waiting to Protect Intellectual Property Could Doom Your Startup. In this article, Mark McCareins, Northwestern's clinical professor of business law argues a startup really needs to spend time and money to protect its IP and interviews four patent attorneys' for tips on protecting IP.
Copyright © 2017 Robert Moll. All rights reserved.
Copyright © 2017 Robert Moll. All rights reserved.
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