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.