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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Inter Partes Review Was Supposed to Help Independent Inventors — And It Did
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 was a fundamental flaw in the IPR system that was abused repeatedly – more on that below.)
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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.
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The URGENT Email from your Patent Attorney
You are in the middle of a product launch, a board meeting, or a sales cycle. Your phone buzzes. Subject line:
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Why Patent Competence Is a C-Suite Responsibility
There’s a simple test for whether a patent actually matters:
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Are Patents Still Relevant in the Age of AI?
Not slowly. Not incrementally. It’s collapsing fast enough that entire assumptions about startups, competition, and defensibility no longer hold.
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Myth: Patents Have Intrinsic Value
There is a deeply embedded myth in the startup, investor, and legal ecosystems that patents have intrinsic value. That simply owning a patent means you own “something valuable.” That belief is not just wrong — it is dangerously wrong. We have written before about this exact misconception in Patent Value – Revenue Is the Only…