First, make sure your intellectual property strategy serves your business strategy.

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By contrast, China has developed a National Intellectual Property Strategy, aggressively targeting 2 million Chinese patent applications annually by 2015, spurring initiative and innovation with cash rewards, houses and tax breaks.

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At first, this intellectual-property strategy seemed to be just another of Bikram's wry jokes.

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"The successful resolution of this case is a critical step in our overall strategy of enforcing and monetizing our intellectual property, including Basic Haptics, and we're pleased to achieve a settlement that is consistent with our business model, which is largely based on per unit running royalties, " said Immersion CEO Victor Viegas.

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On trade secrets, again, I would refer you to the rollout later today that the OMB's Office of the Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator will be releasing as part of the administration's strategy to mitigate the theft of U.S. trade secrets.

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However, the thesis I want to advance in this blog is that the acquisition strategy surge within tech appears to have coincided with an increasing focus on intellectual property (IP).

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However, East Asia leads the charge with a clear strategy to reposition its industrial powerhouses at the heart of the clean tech revolution with both intellectual property and manufacturing might.

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