How the world of IP has changed in 20 years

01 June 2010

The 20 years since Managing IP was launched have seen great shifts in the global economy, the profile of IP assets and the daily work of IP practitioners. James Nurton introduces a look back – and forward

Patent trolls, Markman hearings, TRIPs, OHIM, domain names, digital rights management: just some of the concepts that didn't exist in 1990 but have become commonplace in today's complex IP world. Throughout the past 20 years, Managing IP has been reporting and interpreting these and many other developments, always with a view to looking at what legal and regulatory changes mean in practice for IP owners.

Today's IP business includes more people, extends to more jurisdictions and involves complex issues that were not envisaged in 1990. That makes detailed analysis of individual changes more important than ever, and we hope that Managing IP magazine and increasingly managingip.com provide that analysis month by month and day by day. But this 200th issue provides a rare opportunity to stand back and review the changes of the past two decades in a broader context.

Opposite, Managing IP's founding editor Jeremy Phillips looks...

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