Intellectual property strategies

Technology managers should include the following elements in the plan itself the critical business issues the nature of markets and customers the thmsts of traditional and potential competitors the human resource issues, ie, the skills and abiUties needed to carry out the plan alternatives and contingencies to support the plan a patent and intellectual property strategy and the supporting faciUties and resource plan. The most frequentiy overlooked elements are human resource issues and patent strategies (50). 

Replacement of the phenyl group of anthranilic acid by a cycloalkene represents another strategy to obtain intellectual property. This endeavor resulted in three consecutive patent applications [73-75] and a publication [76]. The advantages of tetrahydro anthranilic acid as a surrogate for anthranilic acid include reduced CYP2C8 and 2C9 inhibition and improved oral exposure in mice (analogs 25 vs. 12). Ultimately, a pre-clinical candidate, MK-6892 (26), was selected from this series due to its... 

Maurer, S. 2005. The Right Tool(s) Designing Cost-Effective Strategies for Neglected Disease Research. Geneva WHO Commission on Intellectual Property Rights, Innovation, and Public Health. Available at www.who.int/intellectualproperty/studies/ research development/en/. 

I would like to provide several examples of successful external university programs and define approaches to persistent issues such as intellectual property and management strategy. Each year the American Chemical Society (ACS) provides an award for leadership in chemical research and... 

Ideas and staying power alone will not guarantee success. After all, this is a competitive industry. To deliver sustained value creation, an innovation strategy must factor in effective intellectual property protection. Merck has pursued an aggres-... 

Finally, there are some important factors which lie outside the company but are more within the traditional management remit company strategies and investment decisions also depend partly on competitors moves, which should be watched and anticipated. Products need to be distinctive the intellectual property needs to be in place to introduce a new biotech process and companies should stay alert to opportunities to align interests and join forces. 

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