Dr Roya Ghafele of OxFirst Recognized as Top Intellectual Property Valuation Expert
Below is a recent interview with Dr Roya Ghafele, Executive Director at OxFirst: Q: Dr Ghafele, you have been multiple times awarded as a Top IP Valuation Expert. What differentiates your work at OxFirst from that of others? A: The OxFirst IP valuations have systematically allowed firms to maximize their economic interests. The reason why […]
Beyond ‘Siri’ and ‘Alexa’ – Speech Artificial Intelligence Patents Come of Age
By Roya Ghafele, OxFirst Ltd. info@oxfirst.com With a rapidly growing market that offers both, attractive returns on investment and the genuine ability to transform the way humans and machines interact with each other, I was keen to understand the economic value of patents reading on Conversational Artificial Intelligence. Patents offer strategic insights, yet they are often […]
OxFirst Awarded as ‘Best Intellectual Property Valuation Firm’ in the UK
OxFirst Awarded as ‘Best Intellectual Property Valuation Firm’ in the UK OxFirst Ltd. info@oxfirst.com OXFORD, UK –The extremely prestigious prize and title was awarded by Corporate Finance Magazine ‘Acquisition International’ as OxFirst repeatedly succeeded in commercializing Intellectual Property (IP) through high quality IP valuations. This earned it recognition in the UK 2018 IP Excellence Awards. OxFirst’s IP valuations paved the […]
Global Patent Strategy over Vaccine Nationalism
By Roya Ghafele, OxFirst Ltd. info@oxfirst.com Emerging Vaccine Nationalism ‘Vaccine nationalism’ could slow the search for a cure for Covid19. [1] The nationalism that prevails in the fight for a Covid19 vaccine is not only overshadowed by the geopolitical tensions between the United States and China, but also by individual nations seeking to find a […]
Managing IP under an Open Innovation Perspective
By Roya Ghafele, OxFirst Ltd. info@oxfirst.com The many opportunities provided by managing patents under an open innovation paradigm have so far not found the attention they deserve among the patent community. The nationalist approaches prevailing in the search for a vaccine to coronavirus provide ample support for this statement. A look at the academic literature […]
Managing Intellectual Property for Public Health
Managing Intellectual Property for Public Health By Roya Ghafele, OxFirst Ltd. info@oxfirst.com British pharmaceutical company Astra Zeneca recently announced that it will order 400 million doses of a vaccine created in the labs of Oxford University. At the same time, the British pharma giant will obtain another 1 billion US Dollars in funding from the […]
An Outlook on the Valuation and Licensing of Standard Essential Patents
An Outlook on the Valuation and Licensing of Standard Essential Patents By Roya Ghafele, OxFirst Ltd. info@oxfirst.com First published with IP Kat Kat friend Roya Ghafele guides Kat readers through the thicket of IP royalties from the perspective of the valuation and licensing of standard essential patents. As standard essential patents continue to gain economic […]
IP Valuation for the Preservation of Public Health
Managing IP in the Age of Covid19 By Roya Ghafele, OxFirst Ltd. info@oxfirst.com Give Up Patents for Free? For sure, patents that read on a potential cure for Covid19 deserve special treatment. After all, the cure for Covid19 is not only crucial to save lives all over the world, but also to avoid the collapse […]
Intellectual Property Business and Intellectual Property Valuation
Intellectual Property Business Strategy and Intellectual Property Valuation By Roya Ghafele, OxFirst Email: info@oxfirst.com The strategic management of IP requires a new understanding of what IP is and what role it can play in a corporate context. Understanding IP as an internal resource to a firm rather than a negative right, allows a firm to […]
Intellectual Property Valuation Forms Cornerstone of Multi Million Patent Transaction by OxFirst
OxFirst Intellectual Property Valuation Forms Cornerstone of Multi Million Patent Transaction OxFirst. Oxford Science Park. OX44GP. Oxford. UK Email: info@oxfirst.com Oxford, UK. 26.9.2020 OxFirst has made it its mission to help firms preserve and generate wealth through IP valuations. OxFirst is an economic consultancy specialized in intellectual property and competition law. It has the tools, […]