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Dr Hayleigh Bosher answers your questions on music and copyright in The IPKat

23 September 2020

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Brush up your knowledge easily on artificial intelligence and IP

23 September 2020

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What you need to know about copyright & music. Webinar slides and recording now loaded!

16 September 2020

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Register now for first webinar in a series with LESI - Managing Your Intellectual Property

10 September 2020

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Next webinar on 16th September! What you need to know about music and copyright - register now

03 September 2020

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Latest Research

Comparable Agreements and the “Top-Down” Approach to FRAND Royalties Determination

Executive summary of "Comparable Agreements and the “Top-Down” Approach to FRAND Royalties Determination" by Haris Tsilikas, LLM (Max Planck Institute). Full paper available at…

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The Value of Standardized Technology to Connected Cars

by Sunil Arya

IPR & Licensing Department at a telecommunication company, as a part of the LL.M program in ‘Intellectual Property and Competition Law’ at Munich Intellectual Property Law Center (MIPLC), Munich

The Value of Standardized Technology to Connected Cars
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Counting Standard Contributions to Measure the Value of Patent Portfolios - A tale of Apples and Oranges?

Executive summary of "Counting standard contributions to measure the value of patent portfolios-A tale of apples and oranges." by Justus Baron, Researcher in Economics at Northwestern University. Full paper available at…

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Technology invention is an arduous and risky creative process that can result in life changing and global transformation. To incentivise investment in successful and potentially transformational technology solutions, and to reward risk, inventors must be able to seek reasonable return for their efforts. Intellectual Property Rights allow inventors to obtain such reward by creating the opportunity to commercialise their inventions. This is not only a fair way to acknowledge the contribution of the technology into the market, but also encourages continuous investment in further research, thus increasing innovation.