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Patents Give You Defensible Space in Your Market
A good portfolio will cover the key elements of your current products, plus your next several generations of products.
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Licensing Patents as Part of Your Overall Patent Strategy
One or more patents can be developed for a licensing strategy in conjunction with or separate from a company’s main product.
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Defensive Patent Strategies
When a patent application is filed, a product may be properly marked as “patent pending.” This marking serves two very important functions.
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Patents Help Sell Your Company
Depending on the situation, the acquiring company may have any of several different reasons for the acquisition.
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Drafting Patents for Licensing
Here, our intent is to protect an idea that may potentially be more valuable at the end of the patent life and may be used in ways that we cannot possibly appreciate at the time of invention. In this circumstance, we are unable to predict where the technology may change.
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Protecting a Product With Patents
This is the first line of defense and is the most simplistic manner to use patents. In this case, the business interest is two fold. The primary goal is to prevent competitors from directly infringing the product going out the door and the secondary goal is to set up a defensive perimeter that will protect as many…
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BlueIron has a Vested Interest in Your Business
How does the patent attorney tell if your invention is “good”? It only depends on whether your check clears the bank.
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Patent Prosecution Highway
The Patent Prosecution Highway is a program available at many patent offices around the world that put your patent application on a fast track to issue.
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Expert Portfolio Curation
BlueIron has years of experience in curating portfolios, and uses several sophisticated metrics to help identify which inventions will be successful in defending your company’s marketplace, suitable for outbound licensing, or otherwise helpful in your business.
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Patent Portfolio Development vs. Just Getting a Patent
Most patents are a waste of money. Why is it that Apple and Samsung each have many thousands of patents, but when they start a patent war with each other over, they only assert a small handful of patents?