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Lough Neagh ℗ 2019 Jane Elizabeth Lambert: all rights reserved Jane Lambert If you were wondering what had happened to my blogs I am on holiday in Northern Ireland, Yesterday I took this photo from  Oxford Island , a nature reserve on the southern shore of Lough Neagh, a vast inland sea in the centre of Nothern Ireland. But I am keeping my eyes open and my wits about me so that I can report things that may be of interest to my readers such as the Catalyst Science Parks  in Belfast , Ballymena  and Derry-Londonderry . There are also a ccelerator and incubator programmes i n Nothern Ireland such as Ignite's in Belfast  as well as business angels  and private equity investors . Belfast Central Library used to be listed as a PatLib library but it is no longer on the current list  and there does not appear to be an IP clinic in the province but there are patent and trade mark attorneys who can be identified by searching the I PReg...

Inaugural Conference of World Business Angel Association in Beijing 2009 Author JohnnyOnTheSpot  Licensed by the author Source Wikipedia Jane Lambert In IP's not just for Big Brands and High Tech Businesses  27 Aug 2016 I wrote: "In my career at the Bar, have known far more businesses that have failed from having too much IP than too little. Some of those failures had been caused by patents that cost many thousands of pounds to obtain but could never be worked. Others by disputes that were abandoned because the rights owner (who in many cases had a strong claim) simply ran out of money." In many instances, such patents and other IP rights were sought to attract, or to fulfil a condition for, investment. While it is understandable that an angel or private equity investor should desire the most extensive legal protection possible for his or her investment a patent for an invention that may never be worked or any IP right that the business cann...