The book is a coaching guide for anyone interested in intellectual property and those wanting to embark on or develop patent creation. It draws on the authors extensive experience and insights from change projects, management and leadership at Nokia. The book guides the reader through each stage of setting up a successful unit, inviting active involvement by asking vital questions about their needs and aims. Focusing on key issues and themes, it provides examples, diagrams and models illustrating how they can be put into practice. The book encourages the reader to challenge their current organizational structure and strategy by introducing various methods and tactics that can be deployed when considering patent creation, then offering advice into the pros and cons of techniques and how such methods can be assessed. The book highlights how knowledge and innovation can be utilized and protected, which due to the increased importance of intellectual property rights, is essential for every business.
Book Details:
- Author: Donal O’Connell
- ISBN: 9780470516409
- Year Published: 2008
- Pages: 344
- BISAC: BUS000000, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS/General
About the Book and Topic:
The book is a coaching guide for anyone interested in intellectual property and those wanting to embark on or develop patent creation. It draws on the authors extensive experience and insights from change projects, management and leadership at Nokia. The book guides the reader through each stage of setting up a successful unit, inviting active involvement by asking vital questions about their needs and aims. Focusing on key issues and themes, it provides examples, diagrams and models illustrating how they can be put into practice. The book encourages the reader to challenge their current organizational structure and strategy by introducing various methods and tactics that can be deployed when considering patent creation, then offering advice into the pros and cons of techniques and how such methods can be assessed. The book highlights how knowledge and innovation can be utilized and protected, which due to the increased importance of intellectual property rights, is essential for every business.
A major benchmarking and organizational change project, conducted within Nokia IPR during 2005, was the key prompt to write this book. Many clients are thinking about how to restructure IPR departments and are in need of a “how-to” guide. Internal debates about cost and quality were a major input to the book as were discussions about how much should be in house/out house. After this benchmarking, IPR became key to Nokia and the IPR function was challenged unable to find anything similar already in existence, the authors began to write.
AUTHOR PLATFORM AND MARKETING: Public speaking; seminars and conferences; reviewers networks; WIPO and IPR training programs. CPA (market leading database and tool supplier) would like to review the book and place an extract in their IP Review magazine circ. 36,000. CPA clients total over 40,000. World Intellectual Property Organization Executive Director of the WIPO Worldwide Academy says the book is particularly relevant to their executive IP management courses. Potential corporate sales to benchmarking organizations and reviewers, including IBM, BCG, Banner they will promote in their quarterly journal; Association Onternationale pour la Protection de la Propriete Intellectuelle, Switzerland; Licensing Executive Society International; Asian Patent Attorneys association; Interamerican association of Industrial Property.
About the Author
Director of IPR Patent Creation at Nokia, Donal OConnell has extensive experience in the wireless telecommunications industry. Responsible for the leadership and management of one complete Nokia R&D centre in Texas, growing the site to over 600 engineers, he has experience expanding and developing teams, handling change projects and designing and launching successful products. Donal lead a major change project within Nokia IPR and he is extremely well networked within R&D, IPR and Environmental fields. Sami Saru is IPR External Associates Manager for Nokia, and a Patent attorney representing Small and Medium sized Enterprises as well as large corporations through work in Nokia IPR. He actively participates in major change project and is responsible for managing external associates globally. Both Donal and Sami have a number of patent applications and granted patents to their names.