+1.970.776.4355 · Loveland, CO · Russ Krajec, principal Currently accepting Fractional Chief IP Officer engagements →

  • What Do Patents Actually Cost?

    There is a more detailed article on patent costs here.

  • Statistical Correlation Between Patent Ownership and Success

    France Brevets, a French sovereign investment fund, has published a report (in English) that correlates success of venture-backed startups with the patents held by the startup.

  • Patent Holding Companies and Ownership Issues

    In this construct, an operating company has full control of the assets, even though the patent assets are held in a separate company.

  • Problems Caused by the Attorney/Client Relationship

    The attorney/client relationships HURTS startup companies when it comes to patents.

  • Patents that are Bad Stand-Alone Investments

    We do not invest in technologies where we don’t think there is a market for the patents alone.

  • Join an Accelerator – and Lose Your Intellectual Property

    Most patent valuation[1][2] analysts will remove 50% or more of the value of a company’s patent just because they were in an accelerator. Lose *half* of your most valuable asset – just because you join an accelerator?

  • How to Review a Patent Application

    Some comments made by an inventor, even the most innocuous comments, can be misconstrued if a patent ever was litigated. Rather than create a messy trail of documented comments remember the most important rule:

  • Patents that “Hide the Ball”

    I had a telephone interview with a patent examiner the other week and in the course of the interview, the examiner said that he really liked my patent application because I did not try to hide the ball with the invention.

  • BlueIron’s Patent Rating Checklist

    The spreadsheet contains many of the parameters discussed in BlueIron’s blog posts on patent due diligence.Please let us know if you have any suggestions/comments to make the checklist a better tool.

  • Writing Your Own Patent

    Some inventors write their own patent applications. This can be a very valuable exercise because forcing yourself to put the invention down on paper can help you better understand the invention, as well as think through new versions of the invention.