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Category: Patent Process
Filing patents, prosecution, costs, timelines, and procedures
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Calculating the Economic Value of a Patent
The economic value of an invention is notoriously hard to estimate, but such analysis can be used to compare different inventions to stack rank the inventions – or…
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How to Finance Getting a Patent?
Entrepreneurs are caught between a rock and a hard place: they need money to get proper patent protection, but they need patent protection to start raising money. What…
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What is the cost of a cheap patent?
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Patent Rejection – What it takes to get a patent issued
The back-and-forth process between the examiner and applicant is a necessary part of getting a strong patent allowed. We want the examiner to fully understand the invention and…
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How much does a patent cost?
This is according to the American Intellectual Property Legal Association bi-annual survey. This is the average patent cost across the US for a patent on a “high technology”…
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Considering Constraints When Evaluating Patentable Ideas
Every invention has a set of constraints, and it is imperative to uncover and evaluate them when considering patenting. This applies to an inventor or business manager who…
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A good patent is easy to read
If you can’t understand your patent application, neither can the patent examiner.
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What does a good patent application look like?
I had a telephone interview with a patent examiner a while ago and in the course of the interview, the examiner said that he really liked my patent…
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Curating Inventions in the Invention Disclosure Meeting – Myopia
The single biggest event that determines commercial value is the invention disclosure meeting.
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.