The Law Blog

Fact: The illegal use of digital products costs companies over $6.49 billion a year in lost profits in the USA alone, and worldwide losses are much greater, according to the First annual BSA and IDC global software piracy study published By the Business Software Alliance and IDC.

Recently, internet marketers Rod Beckwith and Anton Dubina released a new service that allows online business owners who sell digital products (e.g. software, e-books, audio and video files) to protect their products from being pirated or copied illegally.

Furthermore, this new system also allows business owners to terminate further access to copies of their digital products that have been refunded, which until now, was becoming an increasing profit loss due to unethical customers continuing to use the purchased product after asking for a refund.

Illegal use of digital products is becoming a greater loss for online businesses worldwide each year. Question is, will your business continue to be counted within the statistics?

If you can point and click, then you can stop pirates from stealing and reselling your digital products, forbid people from using your products after requesting a refund, and prevent them from being copied without you being paid in less than 15 minutes. Instantly protect your digital products from being pirated, copied illegally, or used after requesting a refund all you need is to follow these simple 5 steps.

What are you waiting for? You must start to protect your products from any stealing and digital criminal. This is very serious treat on our internet business environment. Some tools has been available on market. But this must most easy to use and reliable to protect your product although when you are sleeping.

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IP can be expensive to develop, commercialize and maintain-so we intuitively understand that it has value. Many IP professionals wonder, though, just what makes it valuable and whether certain attributes make some IP more valuable than others.

First, it is important to understand that specific attributes of your IP don’t necessarily make it valuable, but you can look for indicators that are consistently correlated to types of value. There are multiple definitions of value depending on the focus of your organization. For example, maintenance, litigation, licensing, defense and strategy each have their own value that is unique to your team or company.

Within the context of that focus area, you should try to understand statistical patterns that are correlated to valuable outcomes, as you define them. Based on the desired outcome, you can leverage attributes of your IP to find other IP that also demonstrate those same patterns. The following example illustrates one outcome for Intellectual Property litigation.

An academic paper produced by faculty members at University of California at Berkley, Stanford, University of Texas, and George Mason University School of Law entitled “Valuable Patents” analyzes key indicators that suggest the relative value of patents in a legal context. The authors argue that “…some patents are intrinsically more valuable than others.” and that the relative value can be objectively measured, litigation being a key indicator. They also determined that there are at least seven attributes that can suggest whether a patent is relatively valuable.

They tend to be young, i.e. litigated soon after they are obtained. They tend to be owned by domestic rather than foreign companies. They tend to be issued to individuals or small companies, not large companies. They cite more prior art than non-litigated patents, and in turn are more likely to be cited by others. They spend longer in prosecution than ordinary patents. They contain more claims than ordinary patents. They come disproportionately from certain industries. Patents in the mechanical, computer and medical device industries are significantly more likely to be litigated than patents in the chemical and semiconductor industries.

The value of identifying these attributes is that they can be objectively measured. You can know, for example, how old a patent is and how many times it has been litigated. Likewise, a patent is either owned by an American company or it is not and you can know definitively how many times a patent is cited and how many patents it cites.

There are other metrics that can also be leveraged for maintenance, IP licensing, product protection, and so on. The key takeaway is that regardless of the outcome you’re seeking, valuation metrics are much more mature than they once were and they can give you insights that are beyond human capabilities.

These statistical patterns can give way to new opportunities such as Increasing licensing rates – Picking the highest potential licensable patents. Decreasing litigation risk – Identifying risk and preemptively taking steps to avoid it. Decreasing maintenance fees – Pruning patents that should be dropped from maintenance.

Regardless of the outcome or valuation, the science has produced tremendous results and should become a core part of your business. Gauging the relative strength of a patent is no longer science fiction; it is science fact and it can enable significant ROI you wouldn’t have without it.

Innography’s intellectual property management business intelligence, and patent software solutions enables organizations of all sizes and industries to benefit from rapid results and cost savings to manage protect and exploit their patent portfolios.