Video Replay: Seminar #2 – Managing your Intellectual Property
Corresponding PowerPoint presentations:
April 13th – Managing your Intellectual Property by Doran Ingalls and Roger Kuypers
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April 19th, 2010 at 11:28 pm
Roger Kuypers presentation on trade marks and copy right covered a broad scope of issues. They ranged from the most elementary and basic IP needs as well as an overview that any start-up will need to posture itself for securing the optimum and most comprehensive IP legal rights. Roger scaled all the way through small, medium to large corporate, even non-profit entities such as universities. There was so much information that you really need to scroll back and forth on the NVBC webpage to best understand the key issues pertaining to your own sector to get the most out of the session.
What was most valuable for me was the second session where Roger elaborated on management models for selling/controlling/growing and most important right-sizing you IP portfolio to match your business needs, especially on buy outs (i.e. M & A exits). The licensing segment alone was simply excellent as it cleared up some very important strategic and business modeling templates that allows a new company some very clear road maps in how to assemble the most affordable IP portfolio, even when using a Canadian power house like Faskin/Martineu, (Even if you are paying some extra shekels to the big legal guns like F/M for the granite floors in the mens room over the life of your soon to be valuable trademark or patent fees).
Hey, If they do the right job in setting you up without having to do some post IP filing surgery on a botch job, which as history shows, is all too common from poor and unimaginatively conceived agreements written by some family law lawyer who specializes in ag contracts and divorce quickies. Well you get what you pay for, and just as often get a lot less. I say pay em enough to upgrade to gold fawcets and marble bathroom tiles when you cash out your first big exit check by having unloaded your own billion dollar silicon baby.
Good, collateralized, well planned IP is really that important.
Likewise with Doran Ingalls presentation on patents, which was conveyed as a very serviceable outline of the global planning issues in determining the best patent strategy, especially if you plan any jurisdiction outside Canada. Again, some really good content, although I personally enjoyed Doran’s presentation last year a little more, due to the graphic horror stories of well-off inventors/sellers having coronaries in his office thinking they had solid trade secrets and hush-hush patents that Doran coolly Googled while all were in a “full meeting a-la fragante.” To translate, the client was caught with his pants down … and he didn’t know it … and should have. He now has a very messy complicated file to clean up with the risk of loosing any 3rd country licensing value due primarily to very bad structuring and IP execution. Said inventor, soon realized his own plans for world domination were now fully in the public domain, and is now referred to as … sad inventor.
Saye le guerre … that’s war. I think Doran was a scout in his pre-lawyer life because his mantra is .. “be prepared”… well as far as patents are concerned, anyway.
This presentation is critical to securing your intellectual equity and you will need a very share lawyer to save you money, not spend it stupidly.