World IP Essay Competition
WORLD INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY DAY
26TH April 2010
ELLIS JONES ESSAY COMPETITION
In association with IBM
Traditionally, companies have internalised the development and marketing of innovations to defend the market position of their ideas. However, increasingly companies are adopting a more ‘open’ approach to their technical development and sharing of their Intellectual Property, be that for development or to further exploit their own assets.
IBM is one of the world’s most innovative companies and leaders in exploitation of Intellectual Property Rights, with a current active portfolio of over 40,000 patents worldwide. This is the 17th consecutive year that IBM has been awarded more US patents than any other company in the world. IBM invests heavily in research and development, and actively encourages innovation and collaboration to help create its vision of a smarter planet.
As part of WIPO’s World Intellectual Property Day initiative. Ellis Jones Solicitors invites all undergraduate students of the Business School to express their views on one of the key challenges of ethical technology development and innovation by answering the following question in the form of an essay:
THE NEXT BIG THING – TO PROTECT OR SHARE? WHAT IS THE ROLE OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS IN INNOVATION?
The competition will be judged by an Ellis Jones representative together with Dr. Andy Stanford-Clark of IBM. Dr. Stanford-Clark is an IBM Distinguished Engineer, responsible for the consumability of messaging products at IBM Hursley Laboratories, Hampshire and is a Member of the IBM Academy of Technology and an IBM Master Inventor. He is also a visiting professor at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
Each entrant's essay must have essay text of up to 2,000 words (Note: the word count includes articles and quotations)
The competition is open for all undergraduate students of the Business School below the age of 35 years[2] and the submission deadline is 19 March 2010.
Please submit your essay along with your name and address to essaycompetition@ellisjones.co.uk by 31st March 2010
[1] Terms and Conditions apply, for details see rules document below
[2] This competition has been deliberately created as a platform for students of the Business School under the age of 35 to express their views, because they all represent a generation whose lives – and whose children’s lives, will be most impacted over the next 50 years by decisions that are being taken by those in charge within industry and government today.
Downloadable Literature
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