IPPro The Annual 2018/19
The beating heart of the world is reaching new heights in innovation, with technology coming to the forefront in 2018 as an enabler of efficiency and automation. In the intellectual property industry, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and blockchain are beginning to shape the burgeoning technology services landscape, and exciting opportunities for both inventors and law firms alike are beginning to present themselves. However recent regulation, such as the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation has drawn a line in the sand for enforcers, resulting in far-reaching consequences across continents, and leaving brands open to attacks from those wanting to hide behind anonymity on the internet. All this, and more, is discussed inside IPPro: The Annual, which features comment and analysis from the world’s leading IP associations. We hope you like its new coat of paint and, as ever, if you have any feedback or suggestions, don’t hesitate to get in touch.
The beating heart of the world is reaching new heights in innovation, with technology coming to the forefront in 2018 as an enabler of efficiency and automation.
In the intellectual property industry, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and blockchain are beginning to shape the burgeoning technology services landscape, and exciting opportunities for both inventors and law firms alike are beginning to present themselves.
However recent regulation, such as the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation has drawn a line in the sand for enforcers, resulting in far-reaching consequences across continents, and leaving brands open to attacks from those wanting to hide behind anonymity on the internet.
All this, and more, is discussed inside IPPro: The Annual, which features comment and analysis from the world’s leading IP associations. We hope you like its new coat of paint and, as ever, if you have any feedback or suggestions, don’t hesitate to get in touch.
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Feature · LES<br />
<strong>The</strong>re have been five committees hard at work in LES<br />
Standards for the past couple of years:<br />
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Intangible assets in the boardroom<br />
IP licensing<br />
IP valuation<br />
IP protection in the supply chain<br />
IP brokerage<br />
<strong>The</strong> first four are planning to go through formal commenting<br />
and balloting on their draft standards by the end of <strong>2018</strong>.<br />
Also, four more standards committees are just now forming:<br />
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IP management for startups<br />
Big data licensing<br />
In some respects, as a professional field, intellectual capital<br />
management is where human capital management was<br />
70 years ago when the American Society for Personnel<br />
Administration was first formed in <strong>19</strong>48, the precursor<br />
to today’s Society for Human Resource Management, a<br />
professional organisation of 300,000 members in 165<br />
countries.So in <strong>2018</strong>, LES is at a new beginning, announcing<br />
its support for a new profession that encompasses licensing<br />
but that points considerably beyond licensing to the<br />
comprehensive and coherent governance of a corporation’s<br />
most valuable asset class—aside from its human capital—its<br />
intellectual capital.<br />
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ISO/TC 279 innovation management<br />
FRAND licensing<br />
<strong>The</strong>re is much to do, and we welcome all disciplines and<br />
perspectives in helping to define, develop and grow this<br />
exciting new field.<br />
Bill Elkington, president and chair, LES<br />
At Rockwell Collins, Bill Elkington provides leadership in all<br />
the dimensions of intellectual capital management, and has<br />
done so for the past 15 years.<br />
On the LES USA and Canada Board, Elkington functions<br />
as chair and president. He has led the LES Standards<br />
initiative, whose purpose is to develop business process<br />
and management framework standards for the field of<br />
intellectual capital management. He chaired and cochaired<br />
the LES IP100—an invitation-only conference—<br />
for a number of years.<br />
He also is a member of the Aerospace Industries<br />
Association, IP Committee, where he works on<br />
education and policy issues with colleagues from<br />
other aerospace and defense companies, specifically<br />
regarding software and data rights in Department of<br />
Defense contracting.<br />
He is a member of the government/industry Section 813<br />
Panel, a panel authorised by Congress (in the National<br />
Defense Authorisation Act of 2016) to study the software<br />
and data rights laws and regulations in Department of<br />
Defense contracting and make recommendations for<br />
changes to them.<br />
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