2 June 2021
Earlier this month, our Management Consultancy team held a webinar to connect innovation professionals with their commercial counterparts. You can still register to access the recording.
Innovation drives growth and generates competitive advantages. To exploit and control these advantages, senior management, R&D, and patent teams must work together. Highly specialized IP professionals can struggle to get the attention and buy-in from management they need to work effectively, but they must understand that no one else will solve this problem for them.
In addition, ensuring competitive advantages are identified and handled effectively by the organisation requires a common framework to model and communicate value and innovation. Senior management will not take the time to appreciate this, so it is up to IP professionals to become proficient in communicating and demonstrating how their work adds value. Understanding the link between the control achieved through IP instruments, and value, as perceived by management is vital.
In our webinar, Thomas Randes and Erik Oskarsson of Rouse Consultancy spoke to both sides of the innovation relationship by identifying, modelling, and valuing competitive advantages throughout organisations.
To access the recording, please click here.
Arbitration is also the preferred method of dispute resolution for cases involving China because foreign judgments are not enforceable there. While the Chinese courts are an option – and despite the substantial improvement in the Chinese IP litigation system – many parties prefer to arbitrate dispute rather than litigate.
The COVID-19 pandemic has seen intense cooperation efforts in the pharmaceutical and life sciences areas as well as significant leaps in the development and use of technology, all of which may in the longer term lead to disputes over the scope and terms of the cooperation agreements and rights to inventions and other developments.
Rouse’s Global Head of Dispute Resolution, Doug Clark, will talk about how he sees the future of IP dispute resolution in Asia, focussing on China, as well as the various options for arbitration IP disputes in Asia. In doing so he will discuss key issues that have arisen in recent arbitration disputes he has handled both as an arbitrator and as counsel.
Global Head of Dispute Resolution, Rouse
dclark@rouse.com