The British Library Inventors' Club

British Library
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Jane Lambert

I am delighted to report that the British Library has set up an "Inventors Club". and I wish its organizers and members every success,  The Club meets on the last Monday of every month. The next meeting will take place between 18:00 and 19:30 on 29 April 2024. According to the Eventbrite registration card, there will be talks by innovators who have already brought their products to market or have licensed their intellectual property,   The organizers are Mr Bob Lindsey who set up and chaired an inventors' club in Kingson and Mr Mark Shehan who has been the British Library's "inventor in residence",

I have written a longer article about this initiative in NIPC London.

Anyone wishing to discuss this article may call me on 020 7404 5252 or message me through my contact page.

Jackie Hutter's Articles on Strategic Patenting

As readers of this and my other blogs know, I am something of a fan of Jackie Hutter. Jackie is a US intellectual property lawyer with a difference. She describes herself as a “recovering patent attorney”and a member of the pioneering ranks of intellectual property (“IP”) strategists. If your next question is: "What is an IP strategist?" Jackie supplies the answer.

Jackie has just written four articles on strategic patenting which apply at least as much to the UK as they do to the USA.  I can do no better than supply the links:

1. Why So Few Patents Create Real Value
2. It’s Not Your Patent Attorney’s Job to Get it Right
3. Why (Almost) Every Innovator Fails to Maximize Patent Value, and
4. A Case Study of Success.

When you think of the cost and complexity of patent prosecution and enforcement in this country inventors you can see why her advice applies at least as much here as there.