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How much does a patent cost?

That is something I am often asked when telling people that I used to work as a patent examiner at the Swedish Patent office. In my current role today, I meet many different companies and when talking to the decision-makers I often hear that patents are expensive.

How to patent the idea?

That is something I am often asked when telling people that I used to work as a patent examiner at the Swedish Patent Office, and how it felt like working in the forefront of technology since every day I was dealing with the latest and most challenging technical innovations where inventors wanted to get a patent.

After Hannover Messe 2019

Make digital transformation tangible – that was HANNOVER MESSE 2019 promise, and once again #hm2019 proved that it is the world’s most important fair. Over 2500 of the 6500 exhibitors have at least one patent in their portfolio, corresponding to an increase of more than 10% over last year’s fair #hm2018. This means that almost 40% of the exhibitors are protecting their solutions with #patents proving that #patents are becoming more and more important if a company wants to be the leader in #digitization and #industry40.

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After Hannover Messe 2019 report

Make digital transformation tangible – that was HANNOVER MESSE 2019 promise, and once again #hm2019 proved that it is the world’s most important fair. Over 2500 of the 6500 exhibitors have at least one patent in their portfolio, corresponding to an increase of more than 10% over last year’s fair #hm2018. This means that almost 40% of the exhibitors are protecting their solutions with #patents proving that #patents are becoming more and more important if a company wants to be the leader in #digitization and #industry40.

DO I NEED TO ANALYZE OVER 200 PATENTS PER WEEK?

I was recently invited by a customer to discuss how or if they could reduce the number of captured patent documents per week from 200 to 5 (i.e. 40 times reduction) without risking missing out on relevant patents.

IamIP’s coverage of Scandinavian full-text patents extended back to 1960s

The Nordic nations have dominated the list of top 15 innovative countries for many years and they are known for their strong entrepreneurial spirit fostering innovation at its best. Companies such as #IKEA, #Vestas, #SKF, #Scania, #Skype, #Volvo, #Nokia, #Spotify and many more are outstanding examples of what the Nordics can create. IAMIP with its headquarters in Sweden has been founded thanks to our inherited love for technology and innovation.

How to build a successful development process with seamless IP questions?

Depending on the technology you are involved in and the project development process you follow internally, it is likely that you are using some phase gate model throughout the project from the idea phase to the commercialization phase. Usually, such development processes last anytime between 6 months to a few years before the product or service is launched.

Do you know what patent source you are using?

Usually, patents are a very good instrument to secure your freedom to operate and/or to block others from offering the same solution or product in a specific country. This country exclusivity right for your patent which will be revealed in the public domain 18 months after the first filing date, will only be in force once it is granted. In other words. All patent applications that are filed today by you will be available to the public domain regardless where on the globe it has been filed.

Big premiere! New Release - Version 2 of the IamIP platform

The IamIP platform has been developed with simplicity and speed in mind. The situation and frustration in many IP departments in companies today are their lack of overview, time-consuming processes when reviewing hundreds of patents, ineffective communication through endless amounts of emails when in need of feedback about a specific patent.

Free IamIP tickets to the Hannover Messe - the world's biggest industrial fair and “hotspot” of industrial Technology

IamIP among Microsoft, Tesla and Intel will join the Hannover Messe again to present our innovative patent platform, trusted by the world’s most innovative companies. This year we are proud to present our next generation cloud-based SaaS collaborative platform for IP management. Our technical patent experts and sales managers will be happy to showcase the various new and innovative features that are aimed to improve your productivity and increase your innovation capacity.

The importance and challenges of Competition Patent Monitoring

Patents are growing and last year 3,127,900 were filed, and growth means competition. To put this into perspective, a technology company needs to consider and evaluate over 60.000 new patents per week. To keep up with the various changes and developments to the business landscape, it is vital that all businesses have a competitive monitoring strategy to get to know their competitor’s business and product development.

Why I created the next-gen Patent Management platform

What’s the point of continuing to fill in the leaky bucket if all the water keeps flowing away? This is the very idea behind patent management platform, and while the topic is growing, many companies are still lagging behind. But first, why did I come into patent management?

The IamIP 2017 Year in Review

IamIP’s CEO Dimitris Giannoccaro reflects on the most important developments in 2017 and shares some thoughts about the intellectual property world in 2018

How R&D intensive companies can use patent information to increase productivity and mitigate risks

Is it possible and affordable to monitor patent applications globally as a small high-tech company where avoiding infringement means life or death?

What is new in the patent world?

The CEO of IamIP, Dimitris Giannoccaro will tell us how did he share his vision during the IP World Summit and about the plans for the upcoming EPO Conference.

Build a Successful Patent Strategy at Hannover - the Art of War

The numerous awards received by IAMIP since its establishment in February 2013 is a great recognition of the innovative work with a revolutionizing platform for intellectual property management, that enables technological companies global success.

Welcome to Our Digital Factory Day

The numerous awards received by IAMIP since its establishment in February 2013 is a great recognition of the innovative work with a revolutionizing platform for intellectual property management, that enables technological companies global success.

Welcome to Our R&D Day at Hannover Messe

The numerous awards received by IAMIP since its establishment in February 2013 is a great recognition of the innovative work with a revolutionizing platform for intellectual property management, that enables technological companies global success.

Grow sales by using patent information in your business decisions

Grow sales by using patent information in your business decisions - a study from Harvard Business Institute shows. More than 70 % of European companies are not using patent information in business decision-making today.

Welcome to Our R&D Day at Hannover Messe

We would like to invite you to our Research & Development (R&D) Day on April 27th to learn and talk about the “Patent strategy in a R&D perspective”.

Meet SKF's Group Manager IA&IP talking about managing patents

On our first day at Hannover SKF's Group Manager IA&IP will come and talk about "Managing patents & exploiting their value in new innovative ways"

Build a Successful Patent Strategy at Hannover - the Art of War

Sun Tzu, the Chinese military strategist, philosopher and warrior died centuries before companies started to protect their innovation with intellectual property. But the ideas outlined in his classic manual “The Art of War” are surprisingly applicable when creating a patent strategy. As Sun Tzu stated, "if you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles".

Interview with our Digital Factory key note speaker

Mr. Giannoccaro will be the Key Note Speaker on our Digital Factory Day on April 25th, and will talk about: “Exclusivity of innovations – the challenges of IoT (Internet of things)”. Here follows five questions with him about his upcoming presentation.

Welcome to Our Digital Factory Day

We would like to invite you to our Digital Factory Day on April 25th to learn and talk about the “Exclusivity of innovations – the challenges of IoT (Internet of things)”.

The innovation pace of Swedish sub-suppliers decline at an alarming rate

Governments funding crowded areas of innovation - Where does your tax money go?

Reduced innovation contributes to Ericsson’s sales decline

Business aspects of patent analytics

Today at Patinfo in Germany we have "analytics" on the agenda.

Close encounters with 200 tech companies

On June 2 I will get the chance to enter the stage in front of 200 sharp tech companies at Computex in Taiwan.

Computex is live!

Follow the adventures with Dimitris and Viktor posting regular updates from Computex in Taiwan.

The Silicon Valley effect. A social media experiment

It has probably not escaped any of our friends and followers that we have spent 30 days in Silicon Valley. We learned a lot during this period.

Half time insights from TINC in Silicon Valley

Donnie Lygonis and Dimitris Giannoccaro about the first 2 of 4 weeks into the TINC accelerator programme.

The entrepreneur hero is a myth!

This time I would like to share with you, some good advice from Julie Hanna on how to succeed with the leadership and management of a startup.

A short but important message from Silicon Valley

Why we started IAMIP and why this is important for you.

Patent big data help forecast technological change

Reading an article about "New method uses patent data to estimate a technology’s future rate of improvement", made me show a big happy smile.

Startup qualification – Are you ready to scale up your business?

This time we spent the day with the sales guru Scott Sambucci from Salesqualia.

How to spread your message to a wider audience

We had a very interesting meeting on this subject with our mentor Rashmi Menon. Rashmi is a very experienced “product and strategy consultant”, specializing in bringing small company agility to big companies and big company scalability to startups.

Dare to embrace and celebrate failure

We have just completed one more valuable day at the TINC “superschool” for startups.

How to build habit forming products

Another day of our journey and yet another inspirational and very interesting talk by Nir Eyal, the author of a book entitled “Hooked”.

At last, the TINC start in Silicon Valley

We have prepared a bunch of good startup advice already in this early stage of our TINC program.

Silicon Valley business codes

We have now landed in the US and once we arrived and rang the door at Nordic Innovation House in Palo Alto, the office during our stay, we were embraced by the team and felt that we had known the people for years.

How to shorten sales cycles the Silicon Valley way

One significant difference that makes Silicon Valley more successful than almost any other innovative region in the world, with similar resources and opportunities, is the attitude towards risks and failures.

Does your company maintain patents that lost their purpose?

The relevancy and importance of a company’s products and solutions can change over time, often due to changing trends or development of new improved or cheaper products etc. Consequently, a once important patent may no longer provide value to their business.

Patent based decision making

The way to boost global competitiveness?

How to manage accelerating patent costs

There are many experts out there offering all sorts of strategic services. And there are a number of services and software on the market. But no one dare to answer the questions: Why is it so expensive? And what is that cost?

How to get the most out of patent “big data”

In my last two posts from December 2 and December 8 in 2015, I have addressed two major challenges that we have faced when it comes to managing and analysing patent big data, and that no one so far has managed to come to terms with. In this last post I address the third major challenge.

How to get the most out of patent “big data”

In my last two posts from December 2 and December 8 in 2015, I have addressed two major challenges that we have faced when it comes to managing and analysing patent big data, and that no one so far has managed to come to terms with. In this last post I address the third major challenge.

How to avoid a yearly 20 billion € cost of duplicate research

In my last blog post from December 2, I addressed one of the major challenges we have faced when it comes to managing and analysing patent big data, and that no one so far has managed to come to terms with – why 70 % of European companies don´t know that they can use patent information to make better business*. In today´s post, I want to address another major challenge that we´re about to solve.

The patent “big data challenges”

How to support an entire society. As long as I can remember, national, regional and local patent conferences, seminars, training concepts and various services has had a strong focus on issues like; what is a patent, what right does a patent provide, what kind of invention can be protected, do I need a patent attorney to prepare and file a patent application, is a patent valid in every country, what happens if I forget to pay the yearly patent fee, etc. Obviously relevant and constantly current issues, but also a very narrow focus that has contributed to the widespread knowledge gap that exists today, especially among smaller companies.

Change is inevitable, survival is optional

One of my favorite quotes is by the Greek philosopher Heraclitus (who lived around 500 BC) and it goes something like this: "The only thing constant in life is change". I still agree with Heraclitus philosophical thoughts but if I were to apply it to the 21:st century business world, I would have altered the quote to: "The only thing constant in Business is change".

Do I need to invent the light bulb to become an inventor?

The history of technology is, in many ways, a story of great inventors and their brilliant inventions. Think of Thomas Edison and the light bulb, with protection type patent that was filed 1879. Inventing isn't just about coming up with a great idea; that's the easy part! There's also the matter of turning an idea into a product and stopping other people from copying and profiting from your ideas. One way to protect your idea is to patent it but unfortunately many R&D engineers today do not see themselves as inventors unless they invent the light bulb. Therefore, many features related to products are not protected.

Set your mind on groundbreaking innovations

Just the other day Falah Hosini, my colleague and (many times over) inventor, shared his view on what he believes are the most common reasons behind successful innovations. In his blog post, Bring innovation back from the future, he stressed the importance of having the right mindset when aiming for groundbreaking innovations. I will expand on this and share with you some advice on HOW to get yourself into a creative mode.

I bet you have time for a lunch webinar on November 3

This is a reminder to register for our free lunch webinar the 3:rd of November. 15 minutes packed with expert advice and inspiration that will help you to become a groundbreaking innovator.

Bring Innovation Back from the future

On one of my recent travels I came across a short article in an airline magazine, briefly listing the many innovations predicted in the mid 80’s film series “Back to the Future”. Many of these innovative predictions have been or are about to be realized. They are very much part of our present day life, such as the hover-board, flying cars, smart watches, 3D movie technology, fingerprint ID, giant flat screen TV, and more. Other predictions of the movie were complete misses such as a fax machine built in the wall.

We are looking for Thought Leaders to The IP Magic Group

I guess you are a person who move and inspire people with your ideas. And you probably spend more time outside than inside the box. You like to tell and show friends, fans and colleagues why and how your ideas can make a positive change in a company, or why not in an industry or across an entire system.

Are you a successful patent strategist? Check it out!

For those of you who like summaries, I have picked out some of the best advice from our 3 latest posts and todays webinar in The IP Magic Group, created by our own thought leaders Falah Hosini, Dimitris Giannoccaro and Christina Nordström. If you were not able to take part in the webinar, there is a link to the recorded version at the end of this post. Enjoy!

Can my R&D staff be more innovative?

In most of my meetings with clients I hear phrases like “can you expect your personnel to invent” or “nothing is patentable according to my staff”. This reminds me of the movie Modern Times with Charlie Chaplin, whose job it is to tighten bolts on an endless series of machine parts − he is a small cog in the factory exploiting their workers. The key to successful nut-tightening is to perform his movements and tasks with clock-like tempo and precision. Still today, the environment is like that for R&D engineers in many “modern” companies. And you expect them to be innovative?

The paintball strategy – avoid becoming a lying duck

I often think of how we humans tend to complicate things. A few days ago a colleague of mine asked me if I could share my experience from having worked more than 25 years with strategic R&D matters, involving the if, why, when and how when it comes to patenting. Of course I replied enthusiastically! Then he said – but I need you to keep it short and understandable so that everyone else can benefit from your advice…

Don´t forget to sign up for our lunch webinar

This is a reminder to register for our free lunch webinar the 6:th of October. 15 minutes packed with expert tips and advice that will make you an even smarter patent strategist.

Become a mythbuster!

The role of IP Strategists or Patent Strategists is without a doubt unclear to many companies. The fact that an IP Strategist offer advice on why and how companies should spend money on IP (Intellectual Property) because they need to, not because they can, is often unknown – unfortunately.

Expert checklist to avoid accelerating patent costs

We have published 3 posts in "The IP Magic Group" and also held a webinar this week about how to manage accelerating patent costs. In this post I have picked out some of the best advice from the 3 posts and the webinar and compiled a checklist for you. Enjoy!

The 5 company sins leading to accelerating patent costs

The relevancy and importance of a company’s products and solutions can change over time, often due to changing trends or development of new improved or cheaper products etc. Consequently, a once so important and much sought after patent may no longer provide value to their business.

How to manage accelerating patent costs

No adviser, and I really mean no one, seems seriously interested in finding a way to cut, or at least more effectively manage the accelerating costs of creating and managing patents. There are many experts out there offering all sorts of strategic services. And there are a number of services and software on the market. But no one dare to answer the questions: Why is it so expensive? And what is that cost?