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Irving on Innovation: Patents as Currency in the Intellectual Property Marketplace]
From: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 15:11:31 -0500
-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Irving on Innovation: Patents as Currency in the Intellectual Property Marketplace Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 12:05:02 -0800 From: AlwaysOn <enewsletters () alwayson-network com> To: David Farber <dave () farber net> To view this email as a webpage, please use this link: <http://www.icebase.com/reader.ice?EBTL5504421576&dave&2560> Use the link below to update your profile or take yourself off this email list: <http://www.icebase.com/un.ice?EBTL5504421576&dave () farber net&m3654> Patents as Currency in the Intellectual Property Marketplace by Irving Wladawsky-Berger What should be the key characteristics of a properly functioning IP marketplace? Hello David, I like Wikipedia's definition of intellectual property (IP) as being the product of the mind or the intellect that has commercial value and may be legally protected in the same way as other forms of property. Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan observed in a speech last year that: "In recent decades [...] the fraction of the total output of our economy that is essentially conceptual rather than physical has been rising. This trend has, of necessity, shifted the emphasis in asset valuation from physical property to intellectual property and to the legal rights inherent in intellectual property." And a recent article in Business Week pointed out that: "Everyone knows the U.S. is well down the road to becoming a knowledge economy, one driven by ideas and innovation." It should thus not come as a surprise that IP in general and patents in particular are playing such a prominent role in our increasingly knowledge-based economy as more and more of the innovations driving the economy are products of the What should be the key characteristics of a properly functioning IP marketplace? That's a subject that is very important to the future of innovation, and the focus of a new podcast series from IBM. Let me offer some perspectives on the challenges we face. Read the full column: <http://www.alwayson-network.com/comments.php?id=13987_0_11_0_C> ============================================================= Irving Wladawsky-Berger is vice president of technical strategy and innovation at IBM. ============================================================= PREVIOUS COLUMNS: The Freedom to Be Who I Am <http://www.alwayson-network.com/comments.php?id=13914_0_11_0_C> Some Thoughts on Digital Convergence <http://www.alwayson-network.com/comments.php?id=13832_0_11_0_C> It's a (Globalized) Jungle Out There <http://www.alwayson-network.com/comments.php?id=13757_0_11_0_C> Big Blue Bit by the Blogging Bug <http://www.alwayson-network.com/comments.php?id=13664_0_11_0_C> Improving Patent Quality as a Community <http://www.alwayson-network.com/comments.php?id=13536_0_11_0_C> Let Go to Grow <http://www.alwayson-network.com/comments.php?id=13404_0_11_0_C> Managing Innovation <http://www.alwayson-network.com/comments.php?id=13360_0_11_0_C> ============================================================= AO Insider Membership <http://www.alwayson-network.com/store/index.php> If you haven't already signed-up to become an AO Insider, you should. As an AO Insider you'll enjoy advanced online privileges, you'll receive our new AO Magazine, as well as steep discounts on research and events, and private invitations to cool insider events. Check it out here: <http://www.alwayson-network.com/store/index.php> ========================================================= To help you read this email properly, you can use the link below and see the message as it was intended. Make sure you copy the entire link below into your browser's address bar: <http://www.icebase.com/reader.ice?EBTL5504421576&dave&m3654> ========================================================= To send this email to a friend, follow the link below: <http://www.icebase.com/send2friend.ice?EBTL5504421576&dave () farber net> This CoolerEmail was delivered to you on behalf of AlwaysOn. To take yourself off AlwaysOn's email list, or update your account information and/or send comments to AlwaysOn, please follow the link below: <http://www.icebase.com/un.ice?EBTL5504421576&dave&m3654> If you request to be taken off AlwaysOn's email list, AlwaysOn will honor your request pursuant to CoolerEmail's permission-based email terms and conditions. To view our privacy policy and terms of use, please visit: <http://www.cooleremail.com/aboutus_privacy.shtml> Postal address: CoolerEmail Inc., c/o Worksource Inc, 1231 NW Hoyt Suite 305, Portland, OR 97209 Powered by CoolerEmail <http://www.cooleremail.com> ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as lists-ip () insecure org To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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