Jackie Maguire, Coller IP Management’s CEO has been voted into the IAM 250 of top IP strategists for the third year running – and leading in the UK.
The IAM Strategy 250: the World’s Leading IP Strategists is acknowledged as the pre-eminent reference source for those seeking world-class strategic advice on IP.
Over the course of five months, IAM researchers spoke to a wide-range of leading IP professionals in order to identify people considered to be world-class IP strategists: men and women whose business is the creation, development and deployment of strategies that enable IP rights owners to gain maximum value from their portfolios. Only those individuals considered and nominated by their peers to be outstanding IP strategists are listed in the IAM Strategy 250.
At a time of huge economic and financial uncertainty, IP has never been more important. A growing number of companies are seeking to leverage their IP portfolios to extract maximum value from them; whether this be in the form of increased licensing revenues, improved alignment with overall business goals, more focused internal R&D, enhanced collaboration and more open innovation programmes, or better marketing returns. In order to do this as effectively as possible, they need the advice of people who know the business of intellectual property inside out, as well as the opportunities that it presents. This is where the IAM Strategy 250 comes in.
“Locating people able to offer top class advice on maximising IP value can be hard,” says Joff Wild, the editor of IAM. “Many people call themselves IP strategists, but far fewer have a track record of helping to devise and implement successful IP strategies. Those featured in the IAM Strategy 250 really do have the skill-sets and the experience. They would not be listed if they didn’t.”
The individuals named in the IAM Strategy 250 have a wide range of professional backgrounds and reflect the fact that the days when IP was thought of as just a legal issue are long gone. In the 2011 edition, many specialisations are featured, including: brokering, defensive patent aggr egation, finance, insurance, management consultancy, the law, licensing, M&A, tax and valuation.
“While we may not have found every top IP strategist in the world, we are confident that all the people listed in the IAM Strategy 250 deserve to be there. We know because their peers and their clients have told us,” says Wild.
The IAM Strategy 250 is available in printed format and online at www.iam-250.org