St. Peter's College Oxford, Faculty Member Said Business School, Oxford University
BiographyRobert Pitkethly is an official fellow and tutor in management at St. Peter's College, Oxford University, a senior member of the Oxford Intellectual Property Research Centre and a member of the Faculty of Management based at the Said Business School. His teaching, research and consulting interests are centred around strategic management and the management of and policy relating to intellectual property. He has previously worked as a management consultant in connection with a wide variety of technology based and general management issues. He originally qualified and worked as a UK and European Patent Attorney in both private practice and industry, including time at Martlesham Heath, British TelecomÆs research centre. He holds degrees in chemistry, business administration, and Japanese studies and his doctoral research involved a comparison of IP Management practice in the UK and Japan. Prior to moving back to Oxford in 1997 he was a Research Fellow at the Judge Business School in Cambridge University. He has also been a Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute of Intellectual Property (IIP) and the National Institute of Science and Technology Policy in Tokyo and is a council member of the Intellectual Property Institute in London.
AbstractIntellectual Property and Cyber Security This interactive session will give an overview of intellectual property (IP) and the associated Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) which protect it and a particular view of their role in cybersecurity. It might be said that cybersecurity is something implemented so that IPRs are unnecessary. This however is much the same as saying that home security to prevent burglary makes laws about property and burglary redundant. On the contrary one might take the view that it is because society has decided that certain IP can and should be defined and protected by law that the physical, organisational and strategic means to protect that IP need to be deployed to enforce those laws. The aim of the session in addition to encouraging debate is to review IPRs and the rationale behind them, including some of the interactions between IP and security issues. This will be integrated with a management perspective on the role of IPRs in business strategy. This includes looking at the interaction between legal means, and what are sometimes labelled ôstrategicö means, of protecting IP. Some studies on innovation draw this distinction but very often legal approaches to IP ignore the managerial context of much of the use of IP and their associated IPRs.
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