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Category: Patent Strategy
The proper patent strategy can dramatically improve your IP protection.
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Patents Give You Opportunites for Outbound Licensing
Patents are useful only when they give your business options that increase your chances for success.
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Patents Give You Defensible Space in Your Market
A good portfolio will cover the key elements of your current products, plus your next several generations of products.
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Licensing Patents as Part of Your Overall Patent Strategy
One or more patents can be developed for a licensing strategy in conjunction with or separate from a company’s main product.
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Defensive Patent Strategies
When a patent application is filed, a product may be properly marked as “patent pending.” This marking serves two very important functions.
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Patents Help Sell Your Company
Depending on the situation, the acquiring company may have any of several different reasons for the acquisition.
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Drafting Patents for Licensing
Here, our intent is to protect an idea that may potentially be more valuable at the end of the patent life and may be used in ways that…
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Protecting a Product With Patents
This is the first line of defense and is the most simplistic manner to use patents. In this case, the business interest is two fold. The primary goal is…
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Patent Portfolio Development vs. Just Getting a Patent
Most patents are a waste of money. Why is it that Apple and Samsung each have many thousands of patents, but when they start a patent war with…
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Patents Need to Track Your Product Strategy
If a patent has any business value, it must relate to concrete, real products that add value to people’s lives. Patents that cover hypothetical ideas and wishful thinking…
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Never Use Equity to do a Job that Debt Can Do
Equity in your company should be valued high – after all, you have confidence in your ability to succeed. Why squander your equity when you can leverage someone…
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