International Journal of Intellectual Property Management
- Editor in Chief
- Prof. Rosa Puertas
- ISSN online
- 1478-9655
- ISSN print
- 1478-9647
- 6 issues per year
- CiteScore 1.2 (2023)
IJIPM focuses on the study of intellectual property (IP) across a wide range of topics, and embraces studies of IP from the fields of business, management, economics and government policy. Different perspectives that encourage innovation and knowledge creation and transfer are welcome, particularly those which reflect IJIPM's special emphasis on how the topic has evolved considerably from an initial focus on legislation to the current debate surrounding ways of approaching IP in the digital context.
Topics covered include
- History of IP, from international/national or context/sector perspectives
- IP culture/ideologies
- International IP harmonisation
- IP valuation methods: disparities and economic significance
- Internal and external corporate and organisational strategies
- Licensing in and out
- Cooperative R&D in IP
- Innovation and technology management
- IP litigation and policy
- Entrepreneurship and venturing, spin-offs, start-ups and IP
- Finance and IP
- IP information management,
- Contextual differences in IP
- Decision making in IP commercialisation
- Global piracy and IP
Objectives
The objectives of IJIPM are to enhance the critical understanding of intellectual property in theory and practice, to appreciate the strategic importance of intellectual property to corporate and organisational success, and to disseminate knowledge on the management of intellectual property and the commercialisation of different forms of intellectual property.
Readership
IJIPM ensures that such studies reach a global readership of scholars, students, consultants, practitioners and policymakers who recognise the importance of IP as a means of improving people's quality of life and enriching society.
Contents
IJIPM publishes theoretical articles, empirical studies based on quantitative or qualitative methods, practice-oriented papers, teaching-oriented papers, case studies, book reviews, conference reports, short articles on current trends in science and social science, abstracts of recent PhDs on innovation and knowledge, and shorter opinion-based and review articles, commentaries and debates.
IJIPM is indexed in:
- Scopus (Elsevier)
- Academic OneFile (Gale)
- Business Economics and Theory Collection (Gale)
- cnpLINKer (CNPIEC)
- Current Law Index (Gale)
- EconLit (American Economic Association)
- OneFile Business (Gale)
- Google Scholar
- Info Trac (Gale)
- J-Gate
- Westlaw UK
- LegalTrac (Gale)
IJIPM is listed in:
- Australian Business Deans Council Journal Rankings List
- Cabell's Directory of Publishing Opportunities
Editor in Chief
- Puertas, Rosa, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain
(rpuertasesp.upv.es)
Associate Editors
- Palau, Felipe, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain
- Santarelli, Enrico, University of Bologna, Italy
- Singh, Bhopendra, Amity University, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Regional Editors Europe
- Alegría, María Sarabia, University of Alcala , Spain
- Berbegal Mirabent, Jasmina, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
Regional Editor USA and Canada
- Férnandez Vázquez, Jose Santiago, University of Alcala , Spain
Editorial Board Members
- Bader, Martin, University of Applied Sciences Ingolstadt (THI), Germany
- Bargoni, Augusto, University of Turin, Italy
- Benassi, Mario, University of Milan, Italy
- Blanco González-Tejero, Cristina, University of Alcala, Spain
- Bounfour, Ahmed, Paris-Sud University, France
- Crammond, Robert, University of the West of Scotland, UK
- Cunningham, James, Newcastle University, UK
- Gupta, Anil K., Indian Institute of Management Vastrapur, India
- Huang, Chi-Yo, National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan, Province of China
- Hurmelinna-Laukkanen, Pia, University of Oulu, Finland
- Murray, Alan, University of the West of Scotland, UK
- Park, Walter G., American University, USA
- Pletnev, Dmitri, Chelyabinsk State University, Russian Federation
- Rodrigues, Ricardo, University of Lisbon, Portugal
- Rulo, Kevin, The Catholic University of America, USA
- Shane, Scott, Case Western Reserve University, USA
- Singh, Abhilasha, American University in the Emirates, United Arab Emirates
- Val Núñez, Maria Teresa del, University of Alcala, Spain
- Vasconcellos, E., University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Willoughby, Kelvin Wayne, HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management, Germany
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- Briefs and research notes are not published in this journal.
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Journal news
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30 May, 2024
The year 2022 saw the death of composer Monty Norman, perhaps best known for the iconic James Bond theme. 2022 also marked the 60th anniversary of the James Bond film franchise itself with Dr No being the first in a long list of films to use Norman's psychedelic big band sound with the twangy guitar. That same year also saw a legal precedent being set by the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) in the world of trademarks. US company Danjaq LLC which holds the copyright for the James Bond film franchise successful registered a segment of the James Bond theme as a trademark. This trademark decision reflects the evolving nature of intellectual property protection, especially concerning audio branding in the film industry. By securing a trademark for this well-known portion of the original James Bond theme, Danjaq LLC, has shown just how important music and sounds can be for branding. Writing in the International Journal of Intellectual Property Management, Alexandros Antoniou of Essex Law School at the University of Essex in Colchester, UK discusses the intricacies of trademark law and how this particular case played out, legally speaking. He points out that for a sound to qualify as a trademark, it must be distinctive enough that the average consumer associates it exclusively with a particular source. Common sounds, such as the two-tone chime of a doorbell or the sound of a cuckoo clock, usually do not reach this legal threshold and so cannot be trademarked. Conversely, aural themes that much longer are usually protected by copyright as creative works. The familiar snippet of the James Bond theme associated with the fictional spy with the licence to kill is recognised around the world and has a strong association with the film franchise. It is sufficiently long as to be non-trivial and short enough to meet the criteria of a sonic trademark [...]
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