Enable invites you to visit Ventius, the premiere community for professionals and organizations working to maximize the value of intellectual property.
At Ventius, you will find a wealth of IP-related information: daily news, in-depth articles & white papers, learning modules, service providers and links to the IP community.
Snail mail marketing is still very effective. The above quote is taken from a post card I received from Ventius.com announcing the launch of the site. Today's Enable highlights Ventius.com, which is much, much more than just an intellectual property site for professionals. As described below, entrepreneurs can also get a lot out of the site as well.
Learn How to Protect Your Intellectual Property
A great feature of the site is its Learning Center. Your guide, Linda Thomas takes you through the Learning Center and explains its goal and objectives. The primary one is to provide exclusive online training in intellectual property asset management.
What makes the courses special is that they are developed in collaboration with experts who possess extensive IP acumen. The courses are modular and modules of increasing intensity and depth will be added continuously as the Learning Center grows.
Technologically, the courses are cutting edge. They are multimedia courses, created for Ventius by Alva Learning Systems. They offer streaming audio, animation and interactivity to promote understanding and retention.
The courses are free to premium members. If you register now, you get a complimentary premium membership. As a premium member, you will automatically be notified of new learning modules (tell them Enable sent you).
The first module in the Learning Center is IP101: Introduction to Intellectual Property.
The course is for business professionals new to the intellectual property space. A primer for defining and distilling issues surrounding intellectual capital, the course introduces the context within which IP is used as a business asset. The course discusses the basic uses (both legal and business) for all forms of IP: patents, trademarks, copyrights and trade secrets.
Keep Up With All The Latest News
Ventius is also a great place for you to keep up with all of the latest news that is related to IP. The Ventius News Center is a very user-friendly and complete source for news in a wide variety of industries. It is organized extremely well and is it categorizes news both by industry vertical as well as by topic category. For example, if the topic of a news story is a telecommunications patent lawsuit, you could find the story in telecommunications and litigation.
News stories are posted in the Ventius News Center at least once per day. The top headlines are featured on the home page under "Today's Headlines." These top stories will also appear simultaneously in the archive area, accessible via the links provided, or in the left hand column of the News Center section.
News stories remain in the archives for at least 30 days after posting. You can search the Ventius News Center by selecting "I would like to search This Site" in the Ventius Search Center, and entering your keyword(s).
An Intellectual Exercise In Intellectual Property
Ventius also contains insightful, thought provoking, and sometimes controversial writings in its Thought Leadership area. Ventius has aggregated the works of managers, academics, consultants, executives and entrepreneurs at the forefront of the intellectual property vanguard to provide a rich mix of ideas and insights.
Here you will find in-depth coverage of intellectual property issues. Ventius enables you to delve beyond the news with commentary and insight from industry specialists.
There is also a gold mine of knowledge via numerous white papers categorized by various subjects related to intellectual property. The documents are provided by various sources including magazines, journals, newspapers, university professors, lawyers, and business writers.
The nominal white paper processing fee is waived for premium members. As in the above Learning Center, if you register now, the fee is waived and the documents are free. Documents ordered are emailed to the address in your user profile.
White papers especially good for entrepreneurs include presentations from "International patent and technology licensing in the 21st century", which took place May 4-5, 2000, London. This conference brought together a panel of industry leaders who have already succeeded in the new intellectual property world.
Another excellent white paper is the one on Intellectual Property Asset Management. This provides a framework for managing, commercializing and tactical and strategic value extraction from your intellectual property portfolio.
By its own admission, Ventius.com is a work in progress-a dynamic reflection of the thoughts, observations and needs of its users. Ventius.com intends to introduce a new version of the web site approximately every eight weeks throughout the year 2000. Each version will introduce new site areas as well as enhancements to prior versions.
Intellectual Property is one of the jewels of the New Economy. Enable will continue to provide updates about Ventius and other IP sites.
Published by Israel's Business Arena on June 6, 2000.