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Category: Patent Strategy
The proper patent strategy can dramatically improve your IP protection.
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“We Own This Space” Is the Wrong Way to Think About Your Patents
A patent is the right to exclude — not a deed to a market. But the same is true of your competitor’s patent.
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Let the Business Drive the IP Strategy, Not the Other Way Around
Don’t let your competitor’s patents restrict your business. Your IP strategy should give your engineers freedom to invent.
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What an IP-Backed Lender Sees That You Missed
Only one or two of every hundred issued patents qualifies as lending collateral. The lender sees that within an hour. The founder is usually surprised.
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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.
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.