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Category: Patent Strategy
The proper patent strategy can dramatically improve your IP protection.
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Bill Gates Filed This Patent. It Will Expire Worthless.
In October 2013, Elwha LLC — an Intellectual Ventures entity — filed U.S. Patent 9,261,236.[2] The inventors include Bill Gates, co-founder and executive chairman of Microsoft, and Nathan…
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Your Attorney Drafted Claims on Your Product — Not Your Competitor’s
The most common and most expensive mistake in patent drafting. And you will never know it happened until it is too late.
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They say “Get More Patents” but they really mean something else
They want leverage over competitors. Protection for revenue streams. A seat at the table in joint ventures and standards bodies. Licensing income from technology the market has decided…
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Your Inventor Loves Your Patent Attorney. That Is the Problem.
The bond that makes the disclosure meeting work is the same bond that makes quality invisible.
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Your Patent Attorney Makes More Money When the Patent Application Is Bad
The worse the initial filing, the more they bill to fix it. And nobody told you that up front.
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The Highest Quality Patent Work at the Lowest Cost
The best patent attorneys in the country do not work at the biggest firms. They left.
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Stop Patenting Your Invention. Start Patenting Your Competitor’s Product.
You spent $50,000 describing what you built. Your competitor read it, built something different, and kept competing.
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Your CTO Should Never Own Your Patent Strategy
When the CTO owns IP, you get more patents, not better patents. And that is the opposite of what matters.
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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…
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.