Best Practices in Intellectual Poperty Management

Intellectual Property (IP) is a Powerful Tool for Economic Growth.

Intellectual Property (IP) is a powerful tool for economic growth. Note that an IP item is not the product itself, but the special idea behind it. Intellectual property is, then, the way an idea or concept is expressed, and the distinctive way it is named and described. The word “property” in the term intellectual property is used to describe both physical and intrinsic things of value. IP ownership is important because experience has shown that potential economic gain provides a powerful incentive to innovate. Inventors, labor unions, government, and other organizations, are very concerned about the loss of U.S. technological competitiveness, patent rights and good jobs, however, we must acknowledge at the outset that, for most employees, intellectual property is either an unknown, misunderstood, or mysterious term.

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Ask any company if they realize the importance of managing their Intellectual Property in today’s highly competitive global economy and they will strongly answer in the affirmative. In too many cases, however, if you were to ask most employees, including some in the senior staff, generically what are today’s key intellectual property components, they often tell you that Intellectual Property is something that their legal staff worries about and includes such things as company patents, copyrights, and trademarks. This view is no longer the Best Practice in today’s global economy. We live in a multi-enterprise, multi-collaboration business environment dealing with cross boarder issues and IT scope that only comes to the attention of the board when they are unexpectedly stung with a lawsuit. PWR’s professionals have the expertise and IT best practices and solutions in intellectual property management. Call us at 978-663-9212 and talk to us about your interests, needs, and issues in this extremely important business systems area. Be sure to ask for our white paper providing insight and best practices in this important IT management area.