IPfolio Blog

BERKELEY, Calif., September 6, 2018 — Inc. magazine recently announced that Intellectual Property Management solutions provider IPfolio is No. 1003 on its 37th annual Inc. 5000 list, the most prestigious ranking of the nation’s fastest-growing private companies. IPfolio grew 491 percent over the past three years (2014-2017), successfully marketing its IP management technology to corporate IP law departments in and outside the U.S.

During the past decade, image rights have become at least as important as trademarks and copyrights to elite soccer (aka football in every country other than Canada and the USA) players as they and their managerial teams become more creative about how they use IP to build brands, as well as earn and keep more of their money. Image Rights have helped famous mononyms like Messi, Ronaldo and Neymar, as well as hundreds of other soccer stars, stash hundreds of millions of tax-advantaged euros, pounds and dollars.

For fans of the beautiful game (aka football or soccer is it known in the USA and Canada), the quadrennial Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) World Cup is binge-watching fantasy. Attracting an audience measured in the billions, it’s an enormously popular and expensive commercial enterprise that showcases innovation in all facets of its operation. From stadium construction and pre-tournament fitness training, to communication with referees and broadcasting technology, the FIFA World Cup™ integrates invention and new technology in thousands of ways. In this post, we highlight some of the more notable intellectual property of the World Cup.

Patriotism is on full display in the United States every July 4, and Independence Day is the highlight of summer for tens of millions of Americans. The day is typically celebrated with parades, red and white bunting, Revolutionary War imagery and lots of food and drink.

Not surprisingly, intellectual property is found throughout the day’s festivities. We thought it would be fun to research the IP of the Fourth of July and look at some of the patents and trademarks that help us do, drink, eat and celebrate the day. (Clicking on the titles will take you to the respective Google Patent page).

 

While IPfolio has become well known among innovative companies for our patent management functionality, we’ve spent the last two years improving trademark management functionality to eliminate the common pain points inherent in traditional IP Management systems that have long frustrated trademark professionals. We spoke with IPfolio VP of Solution Delivery Heather Fleener to discuss why IPfolio's new trademark management functionality will make trademark managers efficient and deliriously happy.