Context, insight, and solution paths related to…

Sustaining Control, Use, Ownership, and Maximizing Value Of

Intellectual Property - Intangible Assets - Proprietary Know How

If you have an interest in the subjects addressed in any of the Briefing Papers for Training you are invited to contact Mr. Moberly:

• For individual – conference ‘telephone coaching’ on the subject
• To obtain ppt overview

Titles – Subject Matter

1.  Enterprise Risk Management

• Building a ‘Corporate Culture’ For Safeguarding Information Assets: The Time Has Come!
• Stewardship, Oversight, and Management of IP, Trade Secrets, Intangible Assets and Proprietary Competitive Advantages: What Decision Makers Must Know (SME Directors, Officers, Management Teams, Business Units)
• Contingency - Continuity Planning For IP and Intangible Assets: An Overlooked Necessity (Retrieving Intangible Assets Following Catastrophic Business Events To Achieve A Speedy and More Complete Economic- Competitive Advantage Recovery)
• Assessing Attractivity, Targeting, and Demand of Innovation/Research By Global Business Intelligence Operations, Infringers and Counterfeiters
• Insiders: Key Factors That Contribute To Theft-Misappropriation of IP and Proprietary Information

2. R&D

• Unraveling Research Projects To Reduce Vulnerability To Time Consuming and Costly Disputes, Challenges, and Litigation – Proactively Identifying Entanglements, Stability, Defensibility and Value Dilution
• International R&D Collaboration: Challenges, Considerations, and Prudence

3.  Market Entry Planning, Monitoring and Due Diligence

• Positioning IP, Intangible Assets, and Proprietary Competitive Advantages To Beat The Odds Against Theft, Infringement, and Counterfeiting
• Brand Integrity - Stewardship and Oversight To Reduce Vulnerability, Probability and Criticality To Gray Market Activities
• Country Intellectual Property Law: Know The Nuances and Challenges Before Collaboration Commences or Deals Are Made

4.  Due Diligence – Risk Assessment

• When 75% Of An Investment’s Value Lie In IP and Intangible Assets Generic One Size Fits All Checklists Don’t Address Transaction Realities or Global Risks 
• Impairments, Ensnarements, Entanglements, Compromises, and Fragility of Targeted IP – Intangible Assets Can Make Good Deals Go Bad
• Covenants In Mergers-Acquisitions To Monitor The Status, Stability, and Sustainability Of Targeted Assets (pre-post deal)

5.  Intellectual Property 

• Indicators - Precursors That IP and Intangible Assets Have Become Impaired,  Ensnared, Infringed, Or Compromised 
• Protocols for Contesting and/or Countering Claims of Trade Secret Misappropriation and Value
• Patents Are No Longer Stand Alone Deterrents: Things Decision Makers and  Researchers Need To Know About Sustaining Control, Use, Attribution, Value and Ownership
• Measuring Economic Impacts of Trade Secret and Proprietary Information Losses and Compromises
• Categories and Origins of Foreign-Domestic Business Intelligence and Economic Espionage

6.  Investing In R&D, Early Stage, University Spin-Offs

• Going Beyond The Obligatory What’s Your IP Position? Question To Mitigate Investor Risks  
• Exit Strategies Must Include Contingency - Continuity Plans For The IP, Intangible Assets and Proprietary Competitive Advantages
• Preparing Early Stage Firms To Pitch Prospective Investors and VC’s

7. Corporate - University Research Alliances

• University – Corporate Research Partnerships: Negotiated, Responsive, and Protect The IP
• Academic Freedom and Open Scientific Communication: It’s Time To Re-Frame Those Time Honored Hallmarks To Meet Global Challenges Posed By Data Mining and Sophisticated Competitor/Business Intelligence Collection!  (Advancing The Debate Beyond Its 16th Century Origins)
• Interest-Based Bargaining: A Realistic Tool For Researchers and Administrators To Engage Tech Transfer - Licensing Opportunities 

8.  Intangible Assets 

• What Are Intangible Assets: A Roadmap To Their Identification, Valuation, Protection and Monitoring