Will the CRISPR patent landscape soon move to a one-stop license shopping?

The past 24 hours have brought new light and significant moves in the complex CRISPR patent landscape.

First (that was in European time zone!), our CRISPR expert Fabien Palazzoli celebrated the 1000th CRISPR patent family extraction out of the worldwide published patent databases. Our next monthly update will actually feature more than 1050 classified and categorized CRISPR patent families – more than 10 times the initial set of our first landscape release back in summer 2014!

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IP licensing training in Lyon, March 2015

IEEPI (Institut Européen Entreprise et Propriété Industrielle) organizes in 2015 a training on best practices of international licensing agreements in collaboration with Corinne Le Buhan from IPstudies SARL.

Next session: Thursday March 5th, 2015 09:00-17:30

Location: INPI Rhône-Alpes Lyon – 8 rue Montrochet 69285 LYON, France

Language: English

Description: This practice course will focus on licensing strategies, preparation of the IP agreement proposal, the anatomy of a licensing agreement and negotiation of a licensing contract.

Target audience: Business development managers, licensing executives, IP practitioners, contract managers, technology transfer managers, lawyers.

Level of expertise: intermediate

Details and registration here

Journées stratégie PI et Innovation

Corinne Le Buhan présentera “Comment évaluer la valeur d’un portefeuille de brevets pour le licensing” aux premières Journées stratégie PI et Innovation le 20 et 21 novembre au SwissTech Convention Center de l’EPFL à Lausanne.

Egalement au programme de ce congrès organisé par Centredoc en collaboration avec l’IEEPI, les pratiques de gestion stratégique de PI dans l’industrie ainsi que les dernières tendances en matière de marchés, pools et litiges de brevets avec des intervenants de différents horizons et secteurs d’activité (Peugeot, L’Oréal, Technicolor…).

Venez nombreux! Programme détaillé et inscriptions en ligne jusqu’au 31 octobre ici.

Balancing IP expenses and IP revenue – lessons from the CNRS challenge

Mid November, CNRS, the French largest public-funded research organization of more than 26000 employees, primarily researchers and engineers, announced a new technology transfer program for about 25% of their 4500 patent families portfolio. This is just yet another move in the patent monetization trend – and some of the financial figures at stake, more easily available for this public organization than for corporate world ones, deserve a closer scrutiny.

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