International Law

Commercialisation and Advertising Contracts in Paris

Posted on January 14, 2009
The brilliant French film comedy actor, Jacques Tati (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Tati) (1907-1982), made a career out of man versus machine films (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0004244/). They involved fish out of water stories with the fish (him) trying to come to terms with very modern technology...

IBM's record 4,186 US patents in 2008

Posted on January 14, 2009
IBM (NYSE: IBM (http://www.ibm.com/investors/)) today announced that it earned 4,186 U.S. patents in 2008, becoming the first company ever to earn more than 4,000 U.S. patents in a single year. IBM's 2008 patent issuances are nearly triple Hewlett-Packard's and exceed the issuances of Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard, Oracle, Apple, EMC, Accenture and Google -- combined...

Outdoor advertising contract deals and statistics

Posted on January 14, 2009
We're engaged in discussions with a client for its outdoor advertising technology. Our work has been to model and structure its commercialisation roadmap, business models, intellectual property and contracts. This requires understanding the law and business of outdoor advertising...

Predictions 2009: Information and Communication Technology - Part 3

Posted on January 13, 2009
And so we come to the big concept, habits. This is Part 3, the conclusion of our look at ICT developments in 2009 and beyond. Parts 1 and 2 examined the concepts of hype, spin and buzz. They achieve a major payoff when they change consumption habits...

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Software ecosystems

Posted on January 12, 2009
In a second year in a row Facebook has won the top prizes at TechCrunch (http://www.techcrunch.com/), a leading techie web blog. This post suggests some clues on why Facebook keeps getting more popular, both among users globally and the digerati...

Hulu traffic statistics, 25% of YouTube's

Posted on January 10, 2009
The blogosphere was sceptical about Hulu, but the site, still only available in the US, has been a hit. ComScore, the market research company, pegged its unique monthly visitors for October [2008] at 24 million. On average, a visitor watches 10 videos on Hulu in a month...

Predictions 2009: Information and Communication Technology [Part 2]

Posted on January 08, 2009
This is Part 2 of our look at ICT developments in 2009 and beyond. The discussion is structured by the typical marketing lifecycle implemented by ICT vendors. Part 1 discussed the use of hype and spin in ICT marketing. The terms were applied to the increasing importance of cloud computing in 2009 and beyond...

Official estimate of 2009 GDP deficit of US - $1 trillion

Posted on January 08, 2009
[The United States federal government deficit] has been officially forecast at US$1 trillion for 2009 - double the 2008 deficit and equal to about 7.5% of US gross domestic product - without Mr Obama's proposed stimulus package, but some private sector economists forecast a deficit of as much as US$1...

Predictions 2009: Information and Communication Technology [Part 1]

Posted on January 07, 2009
What appears ahead in 2009 and beyond in the information and communication technology (ICT) sector? This is part 1 of our look at ICT developments. The discussion is structured around the typical marketing lifecycle implemented by ICT vendors. This involves understanding the terms hype and spin and other terms we'll pick up in the conclusion in part 2...

12 concepts for simplicity

Posted on January 06, 2009
The search for simplicity in life and work heightens after a good holiday break and at the beginning of each new year. Free of clutter, our minds thirst for what is important. Complexity is not the enemy. It often has a reason for being. The very best cheeses (French) and wines (Australian) I had during my holiday break were complex! Popular magazine articles on simplicity get it wrong year after year...

My GDP surplus is bigger than yours

Posted on January 05, 2009
China has its well-known 8% of GDP surplus, but Singapore, 15%, Malaysia, 15% and Hong Kong, 9.5%, all have even larger surpluses in relation to GDP. Economic conditions for Australians, November 2008 (ip/economic-conditions-for-australians-november-2008-2...

Are adaptations of copyright work legal?

Posted on January 04, 2009
In each case the question of whether there is a copyright infringement requires a review of the law and the facts of the case. We did this after a few minutes of enquiry last month triggered by a Google Alert (http://www.google.com/alerts) informing us that one of our articles has been adapted...

Special Collection: IP for developing economies

Posted on December 22, 2008
The world economy is reshaping faster than ever. Asia is on the fast track from KL to Kolkata, Singapore to Shanghai and Bandung to Bangkok. Australia is in synch sharing a common heritage with businesses in parts of Asia. This is the heritage of the use English common law and English as a business language...

Predictions 2009: Intellectual Property Law

Posted on December 21, 2008
Intellectual property (IP) law protects future things and processes using copyright, trade mark, patent, design, confidential information and other IP laws. This is usually in combination with IP licences and contracts. To excel in IP law, particularly the commercialisation of IP and IP contract drafting, it helps to be a good futurist...

Cue > Dilanchian IP Law Blog

Posted on December 16, 2008
This is the December 2008 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 and business law. You can freely subscribe to Cue (component/option,com_contact/task,view/contact_id,3/) or our full RSS feed (rd-rss/index...

Two new publications on IP contracts and business sales

Posted on December 16, 2008
Exciting news. The 2009 edition of the book, Licensing Update, includes a substantive chapter I penned. My piece is titled Current Approaches for Drafting IP Licenses. It has two audiences in mind. First, readers into licensing and IP law in Australia...

What do Australians love to wear the most?

Posted on December 10, 2008
Australians buy a lot of swimwear, underwear and shorts. They have a passion for them. This came to mind in recent intellectual property and business development project work for a client with a swimwear brand with growing export potential. What explains this Australian passion? Moreover, what explains Australia's success in the commercialisation of this type of apparel? The answer tells us a lot about the importance of national brand perceptions and national market size.

What every business should know about IP ownership

Posted on December 02, 2008
The legal ownership of intellectual property ( IP ) may be unclear if one party uses IP created by another but has no clear legally binding contract, preferably written. Stop reading if that point is understood with respect to employment and independent contractor agreements...

Green technology lowers friction and attracts VC

Posted on November 27, 2008
Climate changes, humans respond. People jump on new opportunities. This pattern is as old as humanity. One theory on why 150,000 years ago early man moved out of Africa points to climate change in that continent. Today the concern is that climate change seems to be speeding up...

Intellectual property rights defined

Posted on November 27, 2008
Here on one page are descriptions of intellectual property rights under law in Australia. It's part of our series defining key concepts relevant to IP and innovation (see further reading list). Questions answerd include - What subject matter attracts the rights? How do you get the rights? How long do rights last?

It's better to design your IP than IP your design

Posted on November 17, 2008
Kid, don't steal the hubcaps, steal the whole car. Frank Sinatra speaks this line in the 1964 Rat Pack movie, Robin and the seven hoods (http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0CEED6133BF930A15755C0A967958260 sec= spon= pagewanted=2). He plays Robbo, a 1920s Chicago gangster...

7 topics for proposal writing or review

Posted on November 12, 2008
Good ideas need a proposal in support. Here's a checklist of seven key topics to help improve your proposals. It is not written with any particular industry or type of product or service in mind. The further reading list contains more guidance, some of which relates to specific areas.

How to visualise your brand

Posted on November 11, 2008
A fun and helpful website tool at wordle.net (http://www.wordle.net/) can help visualise your business and its offerings. It can be used to visualise messages associated with your brand. If you don't have clarity about your brand, it makes it harder to sell to others...

Economic conditions for Australians, November 2008

Posted on November 06, 2008
Here at Lightbulb we are no friend of churnalism (http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=1 storycode=40123 c=1). It misleads, rots the brain and produces stupidity. Instead of just pointing to or regurgitating writing by others (ie churnalism), our preference is to include links to good writing in our collated analysis or commentary...

Linkedin helps recruiters and employees but what helps employers?

Posted on October 30, 2008
If an employee collects customer friends in Linkedin (http://www.linkedin.com/home), can the employee do business with those friends after joining a new employer? Can that employee who collected the customer friends while at the former employer now use them with the new employer? This question became topical due to an English employment law court case in early 2008.

How to minimise risks under the Do Not Call Register Act

Posted on October 30, 2008
The A$147,400 fine paid by Dodo Australia Pty Ltd ( Dodo ) highlights the legal risks of telemarketing under Australian law. It also shows the teeth of the Do Not Call Register Act 2006 (Cth) ( Act ) for calls made to home landlines and personal mobile phones which are on the Do Not Call Register...

Key Australian stockmarket downturn statistics

Posted on October 30, 2008
One year ago, the benchmark S P/ASX 200 Index sailed to a record 6828.70 points. Amid the euphoria of a seemingly unassailable resources boom, even the most sober analysts thought a break above 7000 points was inevitable. Fast forward 12 months and the market is barely clinging to 4000 points...

13 tasks for starting a business

Posted on October 09, 2008
Yesterday I received an email from India asking advice for the establishing an IT consultancy business. I'll share my answer as most of it applies to all types of businesses. The email from India asked: How do I start my company, which persons do I contact, and what resources should I acquire...

The best time to invest

Posted on October 08, 2008
The best time to invest, always, is when everything looks gloomiest. That's when the bargains are to be had. - Special Collection: Business Valuation, Sale or Purchase (ip/special-collection-business-valuation-sale-or-purchase.html)

7 intellectual property principles build value

Posted on September 30, 2008
A few years ago I wrote a personal vision of what it takes for a client to benefit from innovation. At the time I was seeking to integrate several models or typologies for the commercialisation of intellectual property. I titled my statement RAPS Conversion Model ...

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