Intellectual Property Series

Intellectual property exists in areas of your business you might never have known about. Apart from the more obvious brilliant innovations or written ideas that you would like to legally own, there are many more aspects to understanding laws around intellectual property - from copyright and patent laws to understanding where your brand fits in and how to protect it.

The Intellectual Property Show opens up a whole new world of information for the business owner in South Africa. Join Stephan Lamprecht, President of the Licensing Executives Society of South Africa every week as he chats to a team of experts about what IP actually means for your business and how to capitalise on it.

Episode 1: What is Intellectual Property?

This week on Intellectual Property Stephan Lamprecht is joined by Don McRobert, an intellectual property consultant from Adams & Adams, to discuss what the term intellectual property means.

Read transcript | Listen to audio | Watch video | February 07, 2008

Episode 2: Different forms of Intellectual Property

In this second week of the series, featuring intellectual property (IP) practitioner Dario Tanziani from Adams & Adams Attorneys, we look at how executives can better manage and leverage company Intellectual Property.

Read transcript | Listen to audio | Watch video | February 15, 2008

Episode 3: Commercialisation of IP for financial gain

Part three of the 13-part Summit TV series on intellectual property features Alan Lewis from Adams & Adams Attorneys on the commercialisation of intellectual property for financial gain.

Episode 4: Trade Secrets

Summit TV takes a look at intellectual property in a 13 part series with leading specialists on the topic. The fourth show in this series features Claire Duggan from Sasol on when a trade secret strategy may be more appropriate than going the patent route.

Episode 5: Intellectual Property management

Summit TV takes a look at intellectual property in a 13 part series with leading specialists on the topic. The fifth show features Ronald Zink from Microsoft on how maintaining product integrity through intellectual property management benefits the consumer

Episode 6: Developing market opportunities with Intellectual Property

Part six of the 13 part Summit TV series on intellectual property features Gail MacLeod from Strategic Communications on looking at the markets for opportunities - then working backwards from there to develop the required intellectual property to serve those needs

Episode 7: Funding and Support

The seventh part of the 13-part Summit TV series on intellectual property looks at funding and support with McLean Sibanda from the Innovation Fund.

Episode 8: Protection strategies and practices

Part eight of the thirteen part Summit TV series on intellectual property takes a look at the Pebble Bed Modular Reactor Company and their knowledge protection strategies and practices with Dr Adi Paterson.

Episode 9:  Taking your intellectual property to the market

Summit TV takes a look at how to take your intellectual property (IP) to the market with Michelle Reid from Blue Horizon Licensing in part nine of this 13-part series

Read transcript | Listen to audio | April 09, 2008

Episode 10: Litigating to protect your intellectual property rights

Part 10 of the 13-part Summit TV series on intellectual property (IP) looks at litigating to protect your intellectual property rights

Read transcript | Listen to audio | April 10, 2008

Episode 11: Licensing your intellectual property

The Summit TV thirteen part series on intellectual property (IP) takes a look at licensing your intellectual property this week with Hans Nachenius from the SA Licensing Executives Society (LES).

Read transcript | Listen to audio | April 24, 2008

Episode 12: Government’s role in promoting intellectual property

Summit TV takes a look at what government is doing to promote the development of intellectual property with Science and Technology Minister Mosibudi Mangena.

Episode 13: Measuring the value of intellectual property

The final Intellectual Property show in the 13 part Summit TV series hosts Jeremy Sampson from Interbrand and Alan Lewis from Adams & Adams Attorneys on how to measure the value of intellectual property

Read transcript | Listen to audio | May 12, 2008