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Tag: Investment Grade Patents
Investment Grade Patents are the highest value patents: well-researched, well-written, enforceable, and super-valuable.
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Your Inventor Loves Your Patent Attorney. That Is the Problem.
The bond that makes the disclosure meeting work is the same bond that makes quality invisible.
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Your CTO Should Never Own Your Patent Strategy
When the CTO owns IP, you get more patents, not better patents. And that is the opposite of what matters.
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Your Patent Attorney Is NOT Giving Business Advice
Most inventors think that hiring a patent attorney[1] means they’re protected. That’s a mistake.
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The Importance of Patent Searches
The easiest way to make your patent more valuable: do a patent search.
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Investment Grade Patents are not for Patent Trolling
Patent trolling is the business of extortion. Generally, patent trolling is when someone sues for patent infringement[1] but is willing to settle for less than the cost of…
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Investment Grade Patents Need Investment Grade Businesses
The simple fact is that patents only have value when they are infringed. When I invest in a patent through patent financing, I need the startup company to…
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How to Spot Bad Patents
Investment-Grade Patent[1][2]s represent only a small sliver of the patent universe. Their value comes from a huge amount of research and thought. However, bad patents are easy to…
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Patents Are Call Options On Technology
This post was published on Medium. You can read it here.
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Investment Grade Patents Do Not Have “Broad Claims”
Inventors like to think that their patents are “broad” and somehow that is good. It is not.
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Foundation of Investment Grade Patents
Getting solid, investment-grade patents is less about finding the gem as much as removing the dirt so that there are more possible gems in the portfolio. We do…
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