In-house IP lawyers may lose key job; some say patent lawyers lack biz savvy to manage key assets

Article Abstract:

Issues are discussed regarding the intellectual property bar's unsuitability for in-house positions as managers of corporate assets. Such lawyers often fail to see how best to maximize the return on their clients' technical advances.

Employment

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Big times for small IP firms; there is so much work, they're getting big firms' clients

Article Abstract:

Issues concerning the surfeit of intellectual property work for law firms in California's Silicon Valley are discussed. There is so much work that the large and long-established firms such as Wilson, Sonsini cannot handle it all and are handing clients wanting help with the basics of starting up with a new business and growing it to the IPO phase on to smaller specialty boutiques.

Cases, Intellectual property

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Dressing down but moving up at Cisco

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Daniel Scheinman, the general counsel at Cisco Systems Inc, has 18 in-house lawyers and believes in outsourcing but is less likely to resort to this practice with legal issues close to Cisco's core business. Scheinman's department is nonhierarchical and even the dress style is casual. Cisco has filed more than 1,000 patent applications during Scheinman's tenure, yet he maintains that patents are not central to the corporation's business goals.

Management, Officials and employees, Cisco Systems Inc., CSCO, Scheinman, Daniel

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