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Tips to Protect and Profit from Your Intellectual Property

Emerson Consulting Group

Today licensing of intellectual property is a multi-billion dollar industry. In order to capitalize on such growth, entrepreneurs are seeking ways to protect and maximize the value of their ideas, inventions, artistic creations and other forms of intellectual property. Author’s Rights. Register Your Trademarks.

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You Don’t Have to Be a Software Company to Think Like One

Harvard Business

Every business is, willingly or unwillingly, a competitor on a software playing field, no matter which sector it’s in. In a world underpinned by ever more powerful, affordable, and public technology platforms, software is still king. You may be thinking: but my company isn’t a software company.

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PEST Analysis

Tom Spencer

If you are thinking about producing a strategic plan, developing a new product, entering a new market, engaging in a new venture, or financing a project then it probably makes sense to understand the big picture issues that could affect your success. Insights gained from the analysis can then be used to develop a strategic plan of action.

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Blockchain Could Help Artists Profit More from Their Creative Works

Harvard Business

For example, SingularDTV represents film, television and software projects on the blockchain as SNGLS tokens. Digital rights management (DRM) — that is, the deployment of smart contracts to maximize the value of digital rights in a database.

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Consultant Marketing Tech Trap

Jerry Fletcher

It can be the backbone of the sharing of your body of intellectual property or it can delay the release by days, weeks or months or, in some cases years. Engineers and software designers keep trying to simplify things and, in my view, have achieved wonders. Software is a tool. It’s great until it isn’t. Logging in.

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Using AI to Invent New Medical Tests

Harvard Business

This type of innovation requires a multidisciplinary team of physicians, hardware and software engineers, clinical study coordinators, and experts in commercializing medical technologies. AliveCor has provided the much-needed expertise in engineering, product development and support, and accessing the larger health care market.

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Your Company Needs a More-Radical Board of Directors

Harvard Business

But a relatively unknown, unbranded intellectual property company – with far less to lose – might be much more aggressive in minimizing taxes. Letting your ETR slip to the benchmark could risk your customers’ trust. Benchmarking and norming won’t always lead to the right decision.

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