IP MarketPlaces

IBM Global Innovation Outlook

= New Intellectual Property MarketPlaces = In september 2006, IBM Lotus BlogCentral published an Intellectual property manifesto written by 50 experts. The result of this project is building a functioning marketplace for the creation, ownership, licensing and equitable exchange of intellectual property.

Individual inventors and small and medium businesses comprise the majority of patenting activity, earning nearly 15 times the number of patents per employee as large enterprises. They are a heterogeneous group in geography, technology and industry, with little opportunity to participate in the invention system with one cohesive message.

To help give voice to this "silent majority" and ensure the reforms such as patent quality are appropriately balanced for all constituents, IBM has hold an "Inventors’ Forum" throughout the spring of 2007.

These issues were a consistent undercurrent throughout IBM's Global Innovation Outlook, a worldwide conversation with 248 thought leaders from nearly three dozen countries and regions, representing 178 organizations.

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=Values= Wikipedia is the first point of references for users. But executives (administrators, stewards, bureaucrats) have to learn humility. "Companies that are extremely hierarchical have trouble adapting" says Tim O'Reilly because the brand is owned not just by the people who create it, but by the people who use it."

= Usefull patents = According to a discussion about new intellectual property marketplaces, the patent quality depends on 4 criterias :


 * 1) Transparency
 * 2) Integrity
 * 3) Valuation
 * 4) Flexibility

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