WIPO Magazine special focus

The October 2008 issue of the WIPO Magazine carries a special focus on intellectual property finance, written with a view to making the subject more accessible to the wider IP community. This focus is in the form of four features:

* "Intellectual Property Financing – An introduction" by Beatrice Renggli,

* "IP Financing: the Ten Commandments", by Jeremy Phillips

* Ben Goodger's "IP Financing - Implications of the UNCITRAL Process" and

* "The Challenge of IP Financing", by Lorin Brennan.

The IP Finance blog is thrilled that WIPO should have taken this initiative and is delighted that the organisation has provided an effective agenda for debate in the IP community as to what effect the finance community's requirements and anxieties have on IP rights owners and their transactions.

WIPO Magazine to focus on IP finance issues

IP Finance has learned that the September edition of the WIPO Magazine hopes to contain several articles on different aspects of intellectual property finance. The WIPO Magazine (see current issue here) is not a dull, professional or academic tract but a handsomely-produced mass circulation title in both hard-copy and electronic versions. The 'focus on IP financing' edition is aimed to come out just before WIPO's General Assembly in late September in an attempt to raise awareness of the issues involved in IP finance, as well as the current policy developments at UNCITRAL. If English is not your language of choice, note that the WIPO Magazine is available in French and Spanish too.

This weblog will provide further information when the September issue of the magazine has been published.