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Business survival checklist

Posted on April 21, 2009
Lightbulb is a law blog on intellectual property and its commercialisation. They might be regarded as esoteric or technical subjects. They are, and they aren't. For example, their broader context is business law and business needs generally...

Interpreting 1,000,000,000 downloads

Posted on April 20, 2009
Sometime this week Apple's App Store will reach the milestone of one billion downloads (http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/10/apples-app-store-nears-one-billion-served/). That is a billion downloads of mini-applications, available free-of-charge or for a fee, from the App Store on Apple's iTunes, for use on an Apple iPhone or iTouch...

7 key questions for IP valuation

Posted on April 20, 2009
Perhaps you are thinking of selling, buying, investing or advising on a transaction in which valuation of intellectual property is required? This article sets out seven questions to review with specialist advisers. Valuation is a complex subject...

Internet video business models

Posted on April 20, 2009
Our law firm is now geared for more regular production of online video. The latest videos are linked below. In technology terms we've achieved the competency in collaboration with Michael Ney at Sensory Image (http://www.sensoryimage.net) and Jason Kemp at Dialog (www...

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Web 2.0 and online collaboration for Australian retailers

Posted on April 19, 2009
It's time for Australian retailers to get on their online bike. As lawyers specialising in internet and web services we see many IT trends years before they become common knowledge in the market. For example we've noted for years that Australian marketers of apparel will miss potential sales if their brands have a poor online presence...

Encyclopaedia content licensing and contracts

Posted on April 16, 2009
Microsoft's announcement in March 2009 that it will discontinue Encarta provides valuable business strategy and management lessons. Encarta was an encyclopaedia offered from 1993 on a CD-ROM disc and subsequently on the web. All will end in 2009. While money was not the motivator, the crowd that clouds at Wikipedia and elsewhere on the internet has helped starve the business out of Microsoft's Encarta (http://en...

Which franchise group has the most outlets, 36,000 restaurants?

Posted on April 15, 2009
QUESTION: What is the biggest franchise group in the world in terms of its number of sites or outlets? CLUES: (1) It is a franchise group, ie it owns more than one brand. (2) Its sites are restaurants, there's 36,000 of them in more than 110 countries...

Red ink in the U.S. newspaper business

Posted on April 07, 2009
Newspapers are in big trouble. ... The Seattle Post Intelligencer and Christian Science Monitor shut down (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29731700/) their print newspapers, but have online editions. The Rocky Mountain News shut down completely. The Boston Globe will be shut down unless the unions agree (http://www...

IP law experts recognised by WIPO

Posted on April 01, 2009
The Dilanchian website received substantial international positive feedback yesterday. One of our articles was included in the March 2009 SMEs Newsletter . That enewsletter is published by the World Intellectual Property Organisation. WIPO is a United Nations agency based in Geneva...

IP law experts recognised by WIPO

Posted on April 01, 2009
The Dilanchian website received substantial international positive feedback yesterday. One of our articles was included in the March 2009 SMEs Newsletter . That enewsletter is published by the World Intellectual Property Organisation. WIPO is a United Nations agency based in Geneva...

People Contracts - Contractor or Employee?

Posted on March 30, 2009
3915135 An introduction to legal distinctions between employees and independent contractors under law in Australia and many other common law jurisdictions.

Contracts for Business Collaborators

Posted on March 30, 2009
3914488 A discussion of 9 types of COLLABORATIONS formed with CONTRACTS - (1) Co-operative, (2) Licensing, (3) Distributorship, (4) Joint Venture, (5) Franchising, (6) Outsoursing, (7) Strategic Alliance, (8) Co-production, (9) Partnership. The video ends with a recommendation that you consider business and management needs and only then legal needs.

Sell Your Concept

Posted on March 30, 2009
3913534 Legal protection is available for pitching ideas. The protection usually involves CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION LAW and a CONTRACT. This video sets out a legally-informed three step process to define, develop and make a proposal for a concept.

People Contracts - Contractor or Employee?

Posted on March 30, 2009
3915135 [CONTRACT LAW VIDEO] This video is an introduction to legal distinctions between employees and independent contractors under law in Australia and many other common law jurisdictions. It recommends creation of a set of integrated template forms and contracts for dealings with employees and independent contractors.

Contracts for Business Collaborators

Posted on March 30, 2009
3914488 [CONTRACT LAW VIDEO] A video discussion of 9 types of COLLABORATIONS formed with CONTRACTS - (1) Co-operative, (2) Licensing, (3) Distributorship, (4) Joint Venture, (5) Franchising, (6) Outsoursing, (7) Strategic Alliance, (8) Co-production, (9) Partnership...

Australian average earnings, CEO remuneration and CPI: 2001-2007

Posted on March 16, 2009
Over the period from 2001 to 2007, median fixed remuneration [of CEOs in Top 100 companies] increased by 96.4% in total, or 11.9% per annum compound... Over the same period, average adult weekly ordinary time earnings increased by 32.3%, while the consumer price index increased by 17...

Cue > IP Commercialisation Law Blog

Posted on March 05, 2009

Website Business Planning

Posted on March 05, 2009

Electronic litigation mandated

Posted on March 03, 2009

Business death or reinvention

Posted on March 01, 2009

Facebook's monetarization strategy

Posted on February 24, 2009
Commercial websites are often littered with advertising. Facebook is not. Facebook has long kept it's site clean and with minimal advertising. The question is why? One of its board members in an interview this month said it could have a billion dollars of revenue today from ads if it wanted to increase the flow from Facebook's advertising tap...

Copyright licensing 101 for the almost famous

Posted on February 23, 2009
Seeking fame off the back of other people's content is a risky business. If the content belongs to others you may need a licence, permission or consent, preferably in writing. The Rin on the Rox story this week illustrates the risks. They are an LA amateur vocal duo...

Are you online in real time?

Posted on February 22, 2009
LGqLeaUi31Y Rather than fall victim to negative vibes about the end of business as we know it , Marc Andreessen is moving into funding new ventures. In this video you'll hear in 2 minutes why he thinks the iPhone is a full general purpose computer and part of a new trend...

Picnic grounds for lawyers

Posted on February 17, 2009
In Australian parliaments politicians with law degrees greatly outnumber those with other professional qualifications. For example, currently the Federal Coalition has a shadow cabinet (http://www.liberal.org.au/Shadow%20Ministry/) of 21 frontbenchers...

Friday IT lawyer humour

Posted on February 12, 2009
Headlines can be funny. I was just reading one of my online news feeds. First there was a CRN article headlined: Microsoft wins 10,000th patent, lawyers everywhere rejoice. I was instantly impressed. Scanning down the news feed I saw that at Digg (http://digg...

Lawyers for Online Retailing in Australia

Posted on February 10, 2009
Defeating the ill winds of the economic downturn, Amazon had good financial results for the last quarter in 2008. If it is so good for the world's biggest online retailer, how is progress for Australian-owned online retailers? This month Patrick Stafford has a very useful piece on online retailing in Australia (http://www...

iPhone pinch pinched?

Posted on January 27, 2009
The Apple iPhone has popularised the use of a pinch gesture to increase the size of text, a photo or other data on a screen. Is the pinch intellectual property, hence an asset for which Apple can claim a monopoly right of ownership? Some bloggers think so, but given the reality of patent litigation caution is required...

Which franchise serves 58 million customers per day?

Posted on January 26, 2009
In calendar year 2008 the McDonald’s Corporation served 58 million customers per day. In 2008 it had more than 30,000 fast food outlets in more than 100 countries. Currently, there are over 745 McDonald's restaurants located in Australia. Source: McDonald's press release (http://www...

Cue > Dilanchian IP Commercialisation Law Blog

Posted on January 22, 2009
This is the January 2009 issue of Cue, the Dilanchian email newsletter. Cue is a monthly selected list of our Library (general-items/library.html) articles and Lighbulb (lightbulb-dilanchian-ip-blog-/index.php) blog posts on IP commercialisation. You can freely subscribe to Cue (component/option,com_contact/task,view/contact_id,3/) or our full RSS feed (rd-rss/index...

iPhone - 500 million downloads of 15,000 applications

Posted on January 19, 2009
There are more than 15,000 apps on the App Store, and so far iPhone users have downloaded an incredible 500 million, in every category from games to business. Apple home page advertisement, 20 January 2008. Further reading: Software ecosystems (ip/software-ecosystems-2...

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