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Tag: Detectability
Can patent infringement be detected?
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Stop Patenting Your Invention. Start Patenting Your Competitor’s Product.
You spent $50,000 describing what you built. Your competitor read it, built something different, and kept competing.
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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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AI Startups: Protect Everything EXCEPT the Patent
Short version: One dividing line decides the patent question for artificial intelligence (“AI”) companies. The same feature “done with AI” is not worth patenting—keep it a trade secret.…
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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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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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Examples of Undetectable Inventions
This past week, I looked at a couple companies and their IP. Both had an interesting but fundamental problem that made their IP worthless. We will talk about…
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What Is Patent Infringement?
Patent infringement is when someone else uses your patented idea without permission. The strict, legal definition is when someone infringes or performs every limitation of at least one…
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Lawsuit dismissed for undetectable software patent claims
Undetectable[1][2] claims are a huge problem during litigation. This highlights the disconnect between what the patent attorney does during examination – and what the litigator needs to successfully…
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Detectability is a Key Factor for Patent Value
Updated 16 Jan 2022.
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.