Good news for ISSCIO.com community

ISSCIO.com is everyday looking like a better portal for Intellectual Property thanks to an ever growing expert directory (more than 150 firms now) and great content. On top of that, as I hinted in last blog, we have much good news coming this way that will take ISSCIO.com to the next stage.

First, Ms. Olga Yevetska has joined me in the ISSCIO.com project team. This will allow us to develop a better site and improve the relationship with experts and users, something that is always a priority.

Second, and if you have been visiting the site in the last week you may have noted, we have made some design adjustments. We gave more space for information and less for navigation, and we put the log in and sign up buttons in a better location. On top of that we remade the homepage. Also we have fixed some bugs when using older browsers, even thou we still recommend browsers such us Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome. These seem small changes (and some too in the tech side) but we believe will improve the experience of using ISSCIO.com.

Finally, important news comes from our funding company, Brights Consulting Inc. Now that the site has starting to gain momentum, our parent company will start making a more intensive use of ISSCIO.com. From tomorrow we are going to start posting questions in the Q&A section as Brights Consulting Inc. to engage experts directly through the site. Moreover, other company systems (used by our clients) will start using ISSCIO.com as reference for information and will heavily link to the site. Last, and this is very important news, we have decided that ISSCIO.com has reached a point where it can be introduced to the Intellectual Property Community in Japan. Therefore Brights Consulting Inc. will announce the site to thousands of IP specialist within Japanese companies by November 25th. This is, needless to say, a great opportunity for all experts in ISSCIO.com. Thus we encourage them to update their profiles and to contribute to topics information (and questions) to gain more visibility.

With all these good news is exciting time for ISSCIO.com and it means, no doubt, that the site will become an even better portal for Intellectual Property.

Lucas Vall
General Manager

About professional directories, Internet content and ISSCIO.com lists

ISSCIO.com is getting better and better by the day. We surpassed the 50 experts mark, over 30 topics have been edited and we are getting more new additions all the time. But better than that the site is starting to be useful to Internet users looking for information thanks to the content provided by the experts. Indeed, thanks to Google many users have come looking for things like “trademark renewals spain”, “indonesia trademark opposition” or “registration and protection of collective trade marks in Tanzania” (wow!).

The site is indeed growing and now many more experts are added every day into our Expert list. ISSCIO.com, like many professional directories, has a list of experts where you can find an IP lawyer firm in many countries. This is indeed a very useful function for users that are looking for a lawyer in a specific country. For lawyers’ firms it is a chance to be listed and make their profile available to Internet users. They can even add their logo, for free (not like other directories). Moreover, they can even have a link back to their web page (great for SEO!).

But, and I think I have said this before, ISSCIO.com is much more than just lists of Experts. ISSCIO.com provides content, and with content, lists of experts that are knowledgeable about it and have proven so by providing that information. These expert lawyers’ firms are not only listed in the Expert list, but also in TOP EXPERTS, right in the same page with the information. TOP EXPERTS are part of the content (in other words, “Information & experts in one page”).

Why do we have TOP EXPERTS? Very simple: this way ISSCIO.com can rank experts based on their participation, and can list experts according to their expertise. This way ISSCIO.com promotes participation and creation of up to date and accurate information.
And you may ask, why would we want to have this information? Very simple: most users do not look for a lawyer, they look for information, and then for an expert lawyer. Well, with information and TOP EXPERTS in one page, a topic page contains all a user needs. That is why ISSCIO.com, and its content, are more than a simple professional list.

There is one final point I would like to make about content: topics are freely created, meaning that experts can add or delete information at will.
We have added some guideline questions to simplify edition but experts could also freely add links to a newsletter (even their own), news sources, or an interesting blog related to the topic. This is another way ISSCIO.com can become a very useful tool for the IP community.

Lucas Vall
General Manager