WIPO SMEs Newsletter February 2014
By the SMEs Section of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
WIPO SMEs Newsletter is a monthly e-publication providing readers with useful intellectual property (IP) information contained in articles, case studies, forthcoming IP/SMEs relevant events, and published presentations featured on our web site. We hope you will find it useful and informative. We encourage you to share the newsletter or items of interest with friends and colleagues. For past issues and information on the activities of the SMEs Section, please visit https://www.wipo.int/sme.
News
South-South Cooperation
WIPO places an important emphasis on providing development-oriented technical assistance in the field of intellectual property (IP) to developing countries and least developed countries (LDCs) in the Africa, Arab, Asia and the Pacific, and Latin America and the Caribbean regions. In line with its mandate, WIPO encourages and supports South-South cooperation through a wide variety of activities.
Read more on why is South-South development cooperation important? What kind of activities take place under the umbrella of South-South cooperation and what is WIPOs role in South-South cooperation?
Resources on IP Asset Management IP PANORAMA Multimedia Toolkit
The IP PANORAMA multimedia toolkit is now available in English, French, Spanish, Russian, Arabic, Hungarian, Vietnamese and Thai versions on or through the pages at https://www.wipo.int/sme/en/multimedia/ and http://www.ippanorama.com/.
CD-ROMs of the English, French, Spanish, Russian and Arabic versions are also available on request. Anyone interested in receiving a free copy of the CD-ROM may email publications.mail@wipo.int providing the full postal address, including telephone number, and indicating the purpose for which the CD-ROM would be used. Please note that requests without complete postal address will not be processed.
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Commercializing Public Research - New Trends and Strategies
Public research is the source of many of todays technologies from the GPS and MRI to MP3 technology. Public research institutions (PRIs) and universities are also an engine of entrepreneurial ventures from biotech start-ups to Internet giants like Google. Today, globalization, open innovation and new forms of venture financing such as crowd funding are changing the way institutions promote the transfer and commercialization of public researcher results.
This report describes recent trends in government and university level policies to enhance the transfer and exploitation of public research and benchmarks the patenting and licensing activities of PRIs and universities in a number of OECD countries and regions, including the EU, Australia, Canada, and the US.
Finally, it also showcases, based on case studies of leading institutions in Finland (Aalto Center for Entrepreneurship), Germany (Fraunhofer Institute), the Czech Republic (Technology Transfer Office of the Czech Technical University), Japan (open innovation in firms), United States (National Institutes of Health) a number of good practices for increasing the number of university invention disclosures, accelerate licensing contracts and promote more open innovation practices between universities and firms.
National Intellectual Property Systems, Innovation and Economic Development with perspectives on Colombia and Indonesia
This OECD publication addresses the role of national systems of IP in the socio-economic development of emerging countries, notably through their impact on innovation. It presents a framework that identifies the key mechanisms that enable IP systems to support emerging countries innovation and development objectives. This allows country studies to be conducted to identify strengths and weaknesses in the IP system from the perspective of contributions to national innovation performance. It then enables the formulation of concrete policy recommendations, thereby serving the overall objective of strengthening national innovation and growth. The report also discusses two IP country studies conducted for Colombia and Indonesia. These are based on analyses of the national intellectual property systems, drawing on country missions that gathered detailed information and feedback from more than 100 stakeholders on IP-related priorities and bottlenecks. Concrete policy recommendations are provided for both countries.
WIPOs Global Brand Database
WIPOs Global Brand Database makes it easier to search around 11,820,000 records relating to internationally protected trademarks, appellations of origin and armorial bearings, flags and other state emblems as well as the names, abbreviations and emblems of intergovernmental organizations. The Global Brand database allows free of charge, simultaneous, brand-related searches across multiple collections which may also be of interest to SMEs around the world.
Click here to access the Global Brand Database.
IPR, IPR Awareness among SMEs in India
Small and medium enterprises are the backbone of developing economies. The driving force behind these SMEs is the large number of innovations. Since growth is innovation-based, intellectual property rights have assumed an unprecedented significance. New products, brands and creative designs appear almost daily on the market that are the result of continuous innovation and creativity in SMEs. Thus in order to improve the business environment and encourage innovation in this sector it is necessary to provide robust policy framework and formidable legal protection to the IPRs of SMEs especially against unauthorized exploitation. This paper examines the role of supporting institutions to create awareness about strategic benefits of protecting innovative & creative capacity of SMEs through intellectual property rights in India.
Intuit 2020 Report
Explores the significant trends and forces affecting consumers and small businesses, and those who serve them, over the next decade. Research examines how these trends will impact the way we live and operate around the world in 2020. Read more.
Exploitation channels for public research results
This fact sheet has the aim to present tools, tips and practices for public research organizations (PROs) to convert the knowledge resulting from publicly funded research activities into socio-economic benefits. This can be achieved in different ways, not only through direct commercialization tools, but also via collaborative or contract research conducted in co-operation with or commissioned by the industry. In so doing, the dissemination and transfer of the generated knowledge to the market would therefore be ensured, with the objective of creating products and services to enhance social welfare.
Why Singaporean SMEs must renew their focus on innovation?
The recent roll out of the new 360 Productivity framework to help Singaporean SMEs become more globally competitive, has spurred renewed focus on innovation as a key driver of efficiency and work productivity. Read More.
Small businesses will now be able to tap on the Innovation and Capability Voucher scheme for more project and not just consultancy services. Read more.
Small Business Innovation
Explores the significant trends and forces impacting small business innovation. Research briefs and reports look at small business innovation topics in-depth and include an outlook on the key innovation trends that will impact small business over the next decade.
Does Going Public Affect Innovation?
This paper investigates the effects of going public on innovation by comparing the innovative activity of firms that went public with firms that withdrew their IPO filing and remained private. NASDAQ fluctuations during the book-building phase are used as an instrument for IPO completion. Using patent-based metrics, this paper finds that the quality of internal innovation declines following the IPO and firms experience both an exodus of skilled inventors and a decline in productivity of remaining inventors. However, public firms attract new human capital and acquire external innovations. The analysis reveals that going public changes firms' strategies in pursuing innovation.
Breathable Shoes: Branding Success through Patenting
For Mario Moretti Polegato, chairman and founder of GEOX S.P.A., the heat of the Nevadan desert proved to be the ideal innovation climate. In 1989, during a business trip to Reno to promote his family's wine business at a trade fair, he decided to take a walk. Bothered by his overheated feet, he used a hunting knife for puncturing several holes in the soles of his sneakers to let air through. He had just discovered a simple and effective way to let excess heat out of his shoes.
The Informal Economy, Innovation and Intellectual Property Concepts, Metrics and Policy Considerations
In this working paper, the authors review the literature defining the informal economy, and present an original synthesis of statistical data regarding the informal economys social and economic significance. Second, the authors apply established and emerging concepts of innovation to the context of informal systems. Third, the authors discuss a spectrum of appropriation mechanisms, ranging from formal intellectual property rights to informal mechanisms of knowledge protection, sharing and exchange. Fourth and finally, the authors review existing policy approaches toward innovation in the formal economy, and establish a framework to consider future scenarios for the application of intellectual property concepts in this context.
FORTHCOMING EVENTS
National Seminar on Intellectual Property for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises, March 11 and 12, 2014, Minsk, Belarus
Sub-Regional Training of Trainers Program on Effective Management of IP Assets by SMEs in Portuguese-Speaking African Countries (PALOP), April 9 to 11, 2014, Lisbon, Portugal
Forum on Asian patent information, April 10 11, 2014, Vienna, Austria
"East meets West" is the EPO's annual forum on Asian patent information. The forum serves as a regular platform for patent information users around the world to discuss their Asian patent information needs.
During the two-day event, plenary sessions and smaller discussion rounds will treat various Asian patent information subjects. Participants will be able to obtain an overview of the latest developments in Asian patent data during a poster session and workshops. Additionally, there will be ample opportunity for informal contact with experts from Asia and Europe. Optional training can be booked in the run-up to the forum.
For more information, please see the program.
WIPO Workshop for Mediators, May 22-23, 2014, Geneva, Switzerland
The significant time and cost that can be associated with court proceedings are increasingly causing parties to look for alternative ways of settling their disputes. Mediation is an extension of direct negotiations between the parties to a dispute, conducted with the aid of a neutral intermediary, the mediator. It is the preferred mode of dispute resolution in many of the most important markets of Asia, as well as an increasingly popular method of dispute settlement in the United States of America and in Europe.
As an international resource center in the area of intellectual property mediation and arbitration, the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center will offer a Workshop for Mediators in IP Disputes on Thursday, May 22 and Friday, May 23, 2014 at the headquarters of WIPO in Geneva, Switzerland.
The Workshop is held in English and is designed for lawyers, business executives, patent and trademark specialists and others who wish to become familiar with the mediation process and receive training as mediators. Taught by Professor Robert H. Mnookin of Harvard Law School and Professor Gary J. Friedman of the Center for Mediation in Law of Mill Valley, California, the program is based on simulated intellectual property mediation exercises.
For more information of the Workshop, see https://www.wipo.int/amc/en/events/workshops/2014/mediation/NOTE:
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