In a word, low cost elawyering. The Good Enough Revolution: When Cheap and Simple Is Just Fine http://www.wired.com/gadgets/miscellaneous/magazine/17-09/ff_goodenough?currentPage=all
(Theres a bit about elawyering which may interest you). In a nutshell we're moving away from high cost high quality services to a world in which cheap and good enough is the norm. If you get in front of that curve.... Regards, Mark Burch -----Original Message----- From: silicon-beach-australia@googlegroups.com [mailto:silicon-beach-austra...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of 1_Place Sent: Monday, 9 November 2009 7:16 AM To: Silicon Beach Australia Subject: [SiliconBeach] New business models to protect inventiveness Dear Silicon Beach Reading the LifeGuard paper: http://www.siliconbeachaustralia.org/lifeguard/ & considering what can we do to help, we thought that we would seek suggestions from Silicon Beach for ways to improve start up access to legal and patent attorney services. Our belief is that there are other obstacles that prevent starts up from having a easy path to success, one of which is the cost of IP protection - and in particular patent protection! We would really appreciate any thoughts on how we can offer legal and patent attorney services and still survive ourselves. Is there a way that we could help IT start ups to secure patent protection for new inventions and not go under ourselves? One way is to provide help for startups to put in their own patent applications. We have an initial teaching aid for patents at: http://www.1place.com.au/expert/expert_wizard.php?area_id=12 Please let us know other ways that we could change the way legal and attorney services are offered to help make Australia more competitive. Any thoughts on this? We are sure that there are good alternative business models worth trying; therefore, we are looking for your input. Thanks Michael 1p.com.au --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Silicon Beach Australia mailing list. Guidelines on discussion: http://tr.im/ujKF No lurkers! It is expected that you introduce yourself: http://tr.im/ujMm To post to this group, send email to silicon-beach-australia@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to silicon-beach-australia+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/silicon-beach-australia?hl=en?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
