Category: Patent Strategy
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Just Do Your Job
Your patent attorney is a skilled professional. They spent years learning patent law. They passed the patent bar. They have written hundreds of applications and prosecuted thousands of office actions. And they will not make…
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Micromanaging Your Patent Attorney Destroys the Relationship
Your patent attorney will not make a decision without your permission. Every office action, every claim amendment, every continuation — presented as a list of options with a deadline. So you take over. You read…
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Inter Partes Review Was Supposed to Help Independent Inventors — And It Did
Not Accepting Responsibility, Then Pointing The Finger Independent inventors have spent more than a decade blaming inter partes review (IPR) for their inability to enforce patents, monetize inventions, or survive litigation against larger companies. (There…
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The Invention Disclosure Meeting Is Where Patent Value Is Decided
Not filing. Not prosecution. Not litigation. The hour before drafting begins determines whether the patent will ever matter. The single most important event in the life of a patent is not filing. It is not…
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The URGENT Email from your Patent Attorney
You don’t feel qualified to answer it. You cannot afford to ignore it. And your attorney cannot make the decision for you. You are in the middle of a product launch, a board meeting, or…
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Why Patent Competence Is a C-Suite Responsibility
Why outsourcing it to a patent attorney is one of the most common — and expensive — mistakes founders make There’s a simple test for whether a patent actually matters: Did it change your competitor’s…
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Are Patents Still Relevant in the Age of AI?
The cost to build software is collapsing. Not slowly. Not incrementally. It’s collapsing fast enough that entire assumptions about startups, competition, and defensibility no longer hold. AI has changed the economics of software development in…
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Myth: Patents Have Intrinsic Value
Why Revenue Is the Only Metric of Value There is a deeply embedded myth in the startup, investor, and legal ecosystems that patents have intrinsic value. That simply owning a patent means you own “something…
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CES and Grifting the Entrepreneurial Ecosystem
Grifting in the Entrepreneurial Ecosystem I just returned from the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. I have been going for many years, and I thoroughly enjoy the show in many respects, but the grifting…
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Stolen Valor: How Sleazy Patent Attorneys Abuse Inventorship
For an innovator, being named as an inventor on a patent is the crowning achievement of a career. Being named an inventor says that the person has contributed something to humanity that has never existed,…