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Your Inventor Loves Your Patent Attorney. That Is the Problem.
The bond that makes the disclosure meeting work is the same bond that makes quality invisible. Your lead engineer just came back from a meeting with your patent attorney. They are glowing. The attorney “really…
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Your Patent Attorney Makes More Money When the Patent Application Is Bad
The worse the initial filing, the more they bill to fix it. And nobody told you that up front. You got a quote for a patent application. Maybe $8,000. Maybe $12,000. It seemed reasonable. The…
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The Highest Quality Patent Work at the Lowest Cost
The best patent attorneys in the country do not work at the biggest firms. They left. There is a class of patent attorney you have never been introduced to. They have fifteen years of experience.…
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Stop Patenting Your Invention. Start Patenting Your Competitor’s Product.
You spent $50,000 describing what you built. Your competitor read it, built something different, and kept competing. You filed a patent on your product. The claims describe exactly what you built — your architecture, your…
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Your CTO Should Never Own Your Patent Strategy
When the CTO owns IP, you get more patents, not better patents. And that is the opposite of what matters. The most common pattern: the CEO delegates patent decisions to the CTO. The CTO talks…
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Just Do Your Job
Your patent attorney is a skilled professional. They spent years learning patent law. They passed the patent bar. They have written hundreds of applications and prosecuted thousands of office actions. And they will not make…
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Micromanaging Your Patent Attorney Destroys the Relationship
Your patent attorney will not make a decision without your permission. Every office action, every claim amendment, every continuation — presented as a list of options with a deadline. So you take over. You read…
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Inter Partes Review Was Supposed to Help Independent Inventors — And It Did
Not Accepting Responsibility, Then Pointing The Finger Independent inventors have spent more than a decade blaming inter partes review (IPR) for their inability to enforce patents, monetize inventions, or survive litigation against larger companies. (There…
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The Invention Disclosure Meeting Is Where Patent Value Is Decided
Not filing. Not prosecution. Not litigation. The hour before drafting begins determines whether the patent will ever matter. The single most important event in the life of a patent is not filing. It is not…