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Category: Patent Strategy
The proper patent strategy can dramatically improve your IP protection.
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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…
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Inter Partes Review Was Supposed to Help Independent Inventors — And It Did
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.
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The URGENT Email from your Patent Attorney
You are in the middle of a product launch, a board meeting, or a sales cycle. Your phone buzzes. Subject line:
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Why Patent Competence Is a C-Suite Responsibility
There’s a simple test for whether a patent actually matters:
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Are Patents Still Relevant in the Age of AI?
Not slowly. Not incrementally. It’s collapsing fast enough that entire assumptions about startups, competition, and defensibility no longer hold.
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Myth: Patents Have Intrinsic 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 valuable.”…
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CES and Grifting 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…
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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.
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Four Horsemen of the Investor Apocalypse
Contempt is one of the Four Horseman of the Apocalypse. Once it shows up, it is the end of a relationship.
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