WIPO SMEs Newsletter
May 31, 2005 on 11:44 am | In Independent Inventors |One great resource, if you aren’t already subscribed, is the “WIPO SMEs Newsletter.” (SME stands for “Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises”)
WIPO SMEs Newsletter is a monthly e-publication providing reader with useful intellectual property information contained in original/latest/new articles, links to articles already in the internet, case studies, best practices, forthcoming IP/SMEs relevant events, published presentations on our web site. We hope you find it useful and informative. We encourage you to share the newsletter or item of interest with friends and colleagues. For past issues and information on our Division activities please visit http://www.wipo.int/sme
This month’s issue contains a number of articles, including:
A Provisional Application – An Important Tool in the Right Hands. The article by Ian Cockburn, entitled “A Provisional Application – An Important Tool in the Right hands “ looks at the advantages of using the provisional application, in the context of the United States of America, and explains how a provisional application differs from a patent application.
Inventors Handbook: How to Apply for a Patent (by Nesta Creative Investor). The objective of the UK National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA) is to pioneer ways of supporting and promoting talent, innovation and creativity in science, technology and the arts. In meeting its objective, NESTA commissioned Messrs. Peter Bissell and Graham Barker to prepare a handbook for providing step-by-step guidance to the process of invention and innovation. It also provides tips on developing an idea into a real product, an overview of protecting intellectual property, and advice on ways to get an idea into the commercial world - from license deals to making and selling a product yourself.
A Toolkit for Universities and Companies That Wish to Undertake Collaborative Research Projects. Prepared by the Lambert Working Group on Intellectual Property, with the objective of assisting universities and companies, which wish to undertake collaborative research projects with each other to do so in a reduced time frame, while having examples of best practice and models to facilitate the negotiation process.
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