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Are you sure you own your practice website?
Intellectual Property is the term that is used to describe things that will be owned by someone but are not physical in nature.
Digital Newsbrief: Summer 2020
Hempsons’ Digital Newsbrief, providing an update on a range of commercial and legal issues as well as a focus on current clients of Hempsons.
The often overlooked value of IP and common mistakes in dealing with it
We live in an increasingly digital age where technology and innovation are at the forefront of everything we do, with new apps, websites and content being released and published daily, helping us stay in touch with people all around the world.
Taking control – knowing the value of your intellectual property
We live in an increasingly digital age where innovation and new technologies are at the forefront of everything we do, with new apps, websites and content being released daily, helping practices to stay in touch with patients.
Don’t ruin great messaging by lazy content management
An article by Matt Donnelly. Charities and social enterprises often promote the great work that they do by publishing content, but when doing so, could you be breaching another person’s rights of ownership?
Intellectual Property and Health Tech – potential pitfalls
Technology and innovation is at the forefront of current medical practice, with new software, apps and websites being released regularly. This article is designed to offer an overview of some of the potential mistakes you could make if you are considering the development of your own health technology from the intellectual property (IP) perspective.
Protection and promotion of your brand
We all know the key role that your brand plays in building awareness of your practice with your patients, but how do you maximise and protect its value?
Hempsons’ Dental Newsbrief Winter 2018/19
Welcome to the latest edition of Hempsons' Dental Newsbrief.
Health start-ups: Generating revenue from intellectual property
Doctors in private practice and private healthcare operators are often innovators, developing software, equipment and treatments, and building a ‘brand.’ Using these more widely, both in British healthcare and further afield, could bring benefits to patients - and private practitioners are often keen to help this happen. However, they need to consider what happens to their intellectual property in their innovations. IP is a valuable asset – as is being increasingly realised by the NHS – and needs protecting.
Global Digital Exemplars – Managing the innovation process
Innovation is an integral part of any quest for digital maturity and technology underpins most innovative projects. Moving data and services from an offline, paper based environment online necessitates a new way of thinking, new processes and procedures and often new methodologies and technologies to facilitate the transformation.
Newsflash: New tactics required in intellectual property litigation from the Autumn
There have long been restrictions on owners of certain types of IP making “unjustified threats” of infringement action to third parties. Coupled with the fact that the maker of an unjustified threat (which could include a law firm on behalf of its client!) can face legal action, and a claim for damages; this has always been an area which requires careful consideration.
Health start-ups: Get brand protection- key intellectual property rights
It is as true for a business offering healthcare services as it is for any High Street seller of goods that the business’ brand and the goodwill associated with it are valuable assets that are worthy of protection.
Health start-ups: Don’t get snared in your own web – it’s your website, but do you own and control it?
Organisations rightly devote significant time and resources towards ensuring their web presence reflects their values and the message they wish to convey to the outside world. Even those that do not engage in e-commerce are expected to have a website – their shop-window in the electronic world – and will take steps to ensure that clients and prospective clients searching the internet will arrive at their own website rather than that of a competitor.