Blog
Category: Patent Process
Filing patents, prosecution, costs, timelines, and procedures
-
USPTO’s Track One vs Patent Prosecution Highway
Updated April 2020
-
The Entrepreneur and the Angel Investor – The Story of Bad IP Protection.
An angel investor will ask the entrepreneur “Do you have a patent?” The next thing the entrepreneur does is run out and gets a patent. Is this smart?
-
The Patent System is Broken – but not in the way you think it is.
The patent system has some weird quirks that makes it feel broken. In truth, you do not want to know how the sausage gets made at the Patent…
-
Patents and Psychology – The Fear of Loss and the Lottery Ticket
A patent brings out weird psychology of entrepreneurs and investors alike. They are their own worst enemy. By the way, this is one of the reasons why the…
-
What to Consider When Filing Patents Internationally
Updated 1 Jul 2021
-
Patents Help Sell Your Company
IP plays a big role to sell your company, especially if you are a startup company. Most people think about building an IP portfolio for “protection.” Somehow, the…
-
Patent Myths – “Broad Claims are a Good Thing.”
Inventors like to think that their patents are “broad” and somehow that is good. It is not.
-
What Are The Costs To Enforce or Defend a Patent?
Two stages of litigation: claim construction and the trail.
-
Patents Are Call Options On Technology
This post was published on Medium. You can read it here.
-
So You Have A Patent? Now What?
For many entrepreneurs, life goes on. The nasty secret is that now that they have this new asset, they don’t know what to do with it. They spent…
Thirty minutes. Chief IP Officer on retainer — and the capital option behind it.
If what you need is something else, we’ll tell you on the same call.