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“Reciprocity” Breaks Things

It’s nobody’s fault, and it’s obvious how it happened. In a marketplace like IP, it’s natural that strong personal relationships are built and maintained, and so to some extent it’s a natural consequence. It even has a professional sounding name: “Reciprocity”. But there’s no getting away from the fact that, at its core, what it […]

Posted on 13th November 2020 Simon de Banke

Posted on 27th October 2020 Simon de Banke

Formalities

Why IP service providers should not charge urgency fees

Posted on 6th October 2020 Simon de Banke

Formalities

Welcome, Cédric Multigner – Director of Sales

We are delighted to welcome Cédric Multigner to the team as Director of Sales. Cédric brings with him an impressive background combining Sales and IP, acquired with prominent IP service providers, a passion for technology, a human approach to management, and a healthy desire to have fun while working hard with a team of like […]

Posted on 3rd April 2019 Simon de Banke

Renewals

IPC Renew – Launch Sequence Initiated

When we set out to reinvent patent renewals, we had a clear nine-month plan, and wondered why nobody had done it before. As we reach the five year point of that nine-month plan, the enormity of the challenges our incredible team have faced and overcome brings into harsh focus the level of our (mostly my) naivety! […]

Formalities

Is it time to stop talking about Due Dates?

When it comes to renewing or maintaining IP rights, there are few terms which generate as much attention as “Due Date”. But as horrifying as it may sound, the industry really needs to finally stop talking about them, for two very important reasons. 1 – The “Due Date” is rarely an important date What is […]

Posted on 11th September 2018 Simon de Banke

Posted on 12th June 2018 Simon de Banke

IPC

Don’t use a supplier who puts you first

It’s on the tip of almost every corporate tongue: “We always put our customers first”. It’s one of those corporatisms which sounds great, but is really quite flawed. If they put you first, just because you place business with them, then all that means is that their motives are selfish. They’re selecting and favouring people […]

Posted on 7th April 2018 Simon de Banke

IPC

Try to avoid making “faster horses”

Henry Ford (founder of the Ford Motor Company) is famed to have once said that if he’d asked his customers what they wanted they would have said “faster horses”. The inference of course being that your customers can’t see beyond an evolution of what they already have. Well, if indeed he did say this, then […]

Posted on 2nd April 2018 Simon de Banke

IPC

Eight guiding principles for extraordinary performance

At IP Centrum we question everything. Just because something is done a certain way, doesn’t mean it should be. Often, the answers are hidden in plain sight, and the (sometimes obvious in retrospect) questions are waiting patiently to be asked. It isn’t necessary to change everything just for the sake of it, but if you […]

IPC

IP Formalities, through the looking glass

There is a secret. A secret unlike others; which cannot simply be shared, or passed on.

Posted on 19th May 2017 Simon de Banke