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Category: Patent Strategy
The proper patent strategy can dramatically improve your IP protection.
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Avoid Wishful Thinking Patents
Most startup CEOs want patents because they want ‘protection,’ so they go to a patent attorney. And the patent attorney is in the unfortunate situation of having to…
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Damage Control: Filing Patents After An Employee Leaves
Capturing ideas so you own them can limit the damage a key employee might inflict when they go to a competitor.
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Patent Ethics: Is it Ethical for the Patent Attorney to list themselves as an inventor?
There is the “legal” definition of an inventor, and there is the realistic, practical definition.
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Risks of Investing in Government-Sponsored Research
“March-in” rights under 37 CFR 401.6 allow the government to re-possess a patent using a very arbitrary process.
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Showing Up – The Simplest Thing
As an early stage investor, I have only one meaningful metric: a good steward of capital.
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Contingency Fee Litigation Is Only a Last Resort
Contingency fee litigation is a unique feature of American Law, where attorneys perform some or all of the litigation – and they get paid only if they win.…
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IP Theft – Starting that “Side Project”
Doing the entrepreneurial gig is hard. There are countless barriers and endless hurdles to overcome, and many entrepreneurs relentlessly power through them.
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Licensing Inventions from Independent Inventors
I was an engineer for 13 years before switching to patent law, which was over 20 years ago. My engineering career was mostly in the manufacturing side, designing…
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Ideas from Outsiders: Not Always a Good Bet
Many entrepreneurs attempt to start businesses by coming into an industry as an outsider. As an angel investor, I generally don’t like these kinds of entrepreneur situations –…
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Method Claims and Undetectability
Method claims are especially difficult to detect, but they have another twist that makes them less important than “apparatus” claims.
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