Why doesn’t
every company
have an IP
director?
At a recent workshop hosted at our
London office, a group of Intellectual
Property strategy experts mused on
the question “Why doesn’t every
company have an IP director?”
Intellectual Property
12
IP review
spring
2017
Intellectual Property is increasingly the cornerstone
for business success, yet in many organisations
responsibility for Intellectual Property is, at best, divided
between several different departments (e.g. patents
are covered by the technology or engineering function,
whilst trade marks are the province of the marketing or
legal department) or, at worst, is not picked up by any
department, as each executive believes that IP is being
looked after somewhere else in the business.
