Effective April 28, 2007, Falco-Archer's operations are now consolidated with those of Neopatents, a full service IP management consultancy.
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Quick links to the reference sections below:
Internet resources specifically related to intellectual property and its management:
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A part of Oppedahl & Larson's Patent Law Web Server. One of the Internet's first intellectual property information resources.
A great resource for locating IP service providers around the globe.
Lots of critical intellectual property basic tips from one of the world's foremost intellectual property colleges.
U.S. patent and trademark information and searching
A great resource for tracking the progress and file histories of published, pending U.S. applications and issued patents.
A great resource for tracking the progress and file histories of U.S. trademark applications and registrations.
A great page with links to patent databases for searching - thanks to Stanford University.
Information about the PCT patent process and international trademarks and copyrights.
Worldwide IP searching.

European Patent Office - Online file inspection
A great resource to obtain more detailed information about pending European patents. Also includes opposition histories!
Information about patents, trademarks, and copyrights in Canada.
International patent class codes for patent analysis and searching
A great set of links and listing from WIPO.
U.S. copyright information

 
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IP management and strategic planning resources in print
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An outstanding book on intellectual property, it's effective management, and importance by Christopher Pike. We recommend this book to all of our clients.
A highly-recommended article by Michael D. Kaminski at Foley and Lardner LLP detailing the importance of multiple, objective (and strategic) measures of patent value to organizations -- it's more than just "numbers of patents filed" (!)
Paper by Michael C. Mankins about how strategic planning needs to be continuous and not static or a "one-off" event. From the Marakon Associates web site.
Paper by Dominic Dodd and Gauthier P. Vincent about how strategic plans need to be communicated, i.e., as "strategic themes" which are distinctive, selective and
suggestive. From the Marakon Associates web site.
An adapted excerpt of the book "Strategic Navigation" by H. William Dettmer which introduces " a new model for strategy development: a synthesis of the framework of military planning, the speed and flexibility of maneuver warfare, and the logical verifiability of cause and effect. The result is “strategy on the wall”—a top-to bottom visual picture of where the organization is going and how it will get there for everyone to see. From this web site.
Strategy Maps (summary)
A summary from the Harvard Business Review about the book "Strategy Mapping" by Kaplan and Norton. See also the October 2000 Harvard Business Review article.

Nolo Press, Copyright and Trademark web page

Nolo's Patent and Trade Secrets web page
Books and software.
The official "rules" U.S. Patent examiners must follow when examining a U.S. Patent application; great resource but not light reading...
The 1995 classic reference.

 
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The following are copies of Falco-Archer presentations and publications
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Intellectual Property Management Strategies – Why, What and How? Available as a MS PowerPoint file (430K) or a PDF (2.2MB)
Details the rationale for strategic IP management and sets forth the basic principles for building and executing a comprehensive, cost-effective, and value-added intellectual property (IP) management program. Includes a synopsis of Falco-Archer's strategic IP management services. Published in 2005.
Falco-Archer's strategic IP management services. Available as a MS PowerPoint (140K) or PDF (480K).
A summary of Falco-Archer's services, without the rationale for IP management included in the presentation above. Published in 2005.
An operating group of Falco-Archer dedicated to the strategic management of IP in the global health sector. Numerous related publications and figures are available at this site.
Falco-Archer white paper about how philanthropies in the technology and product development arena are using intellectual property management to achieve their missions.
Patent mapping (100K MS Powerpoint)
A primer on patent mapping -- creating actionable intelligence from patent information
Falco-Archer white paper about the benefits of "patent maps", in particular those produced with rational interpretation, e.g., the distillation of complex patent "landscapes" into high value representations useful in
making business decisions.
Presented at the Cambridge Consultants Ltd. 2003 Innovation Day, Cambridge, England, November 2003. Touches on "market-centric" IP management, embedding IP in key processes, and IP analytics.
A patent mapping case study about how patent “thickets” may impact development and commercialization of critically-needed medical products. Presented at the American Association for the Advancement of Science SIPPI Meeting, 5 June 2003.
Presented at the Forum for Collaborative HIV Research meeting: Point of care HIV monitoring technologies for resource-poor settings: Moving the field forward. Boston. 26 Feb 2005
Using intellectual property reconnaissance and insight to generate competitive intelligence. Presented Jan. 2006 at the University of Washington IP certification program.

 
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Internet resources for individual inventors:
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The Elevator Test (see inset box in this article)
You can patent anything (well, almost!) But think you've got a good, marketable idea? Apply the Elevator Test!

Tons of tips, interesting historical data, and basic information about intellectual property.
Dedicated to serving the special needs and interests of the independent inventor and entrepreneur
Canada's leading organization dedicated to assisting inventors and innovative companies. CIC's range of services includes invention evaluation, technology due diligence, market research, and education programs.
A resource where individual inventors can get information about commercializing their inventions.
WISC assists small businesses and independent inventors with technical and market assessments of new product and service ideas. Since 1980 -- very economical too!
From The National Inventor's Hall of Fame. Objective, informative.

 
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