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Independent Inventors are a Walking Malpractice Suit
As I began to learn patent law 20+ years ago, a senior attorney described independent inventors as “walking malpractice lawsuits”. His way of handing independent inventors was to…
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Why Patent Attorneys Always Suggest Getting a Patent
This story is not about only having a hammer and everything looks like a nail. There is more to the story.
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Franchising Principles Applied to Startups
I had the opportunity to visit with a franchise president who is also doing a “conventional” tech startup.
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What Do Patents Actually Cost?
There is a more detailed article on patent costs here.
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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.
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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.
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Problems Caused by the Attorney/Client Relationship
The attorney/client relationships HURTS startup companies when it comes to patents.
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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.
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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…
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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…
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