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Category: Patent Strategy
The proper patent strategy can dramatically improve your IP protection.
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The Provisional Patent Hoax
One of the greatest hoaxes in our industry is the notion that provisional patent applications are a good thing. They are not.
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How accelerators and angel groups lose their way.
Ever drive by a construction site and see dozens of “supervisors” standing around, while one guy with a shovel is actually working? This is the perfect metaphor for…
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The Endless Science Project
Some startups are the Endless Science Project. They start from a “cool” technological idea and work on endless science projects. They run one science project for a while,…
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Calling yourself an “Expert”
I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue, than why I have one. – Cato the Elder, from Plutarch’s Lives
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Patents Age Like Fine Wine
We like to think about patents as call options on technology. With a call option, you have the opportunity, but not the obligation, to cash in the option…
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Trading on the Differences
Every time you see a news story or read a blog about a topic you know very well, it is amazing that the stories have lots of factual…
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IP Valuation in a Regulatory Framework
Regulatory requirements trump patents as the primary form of protection or moat[1] against a business.
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The Government is the Worst Customer – and the Worst Investor
We will always invest where Adam Smith’s “Invisible Hand” is pushing things forward, and avoid businesses where the regulator’s pen can wipe it out.
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Handing the Keys to the Drunken Sailor and Hoping You Get Home
Letting the CTO manage patent policy is bad for business.
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Pitching Investors is Not “One-and-Done”
I have the enviable position of seeing lots of inventors who bootstrapped their companies along before they take outside investment (if they take any outside investment at all).…
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