How manages Property Rights?

Last december, Harvard Business Review published a paper by B. Anand, professor of strategy at Harvard Business School and A. Galetovic, professeor at Center of Applied Economics, University of Chile, about "How market smarts can protect property rights" And they talk about 6 market strategies.

Prevent misappropriation
Lower the competitive intensity
Entangle key assets
Combine secure with insecure products
Redefine the firm’s boundaries
Relinquish your core assets

And another interesting link about IP law it is IPR Helpdesk web, .The main objective of the IPR-Helpdesk is to assist potential and current contractors taking part in Community funded research and technological development projects on intellectual property rights (IPR) issues.

The IPR-Helpdesk advises also on Community diffusion and protection rules and other issues relating to IPR in international research projects. Another more global objective of the action is to raise awareness of the European research community on IPR issues, emphasising their European dimension.

The Consortium running the project is made up of the following partners:

Universidad de Alicante

Intellectual Property law Institute of the Jagiellonian University in Cracow

European Research and Project Office GmbH