The \”Dirty Little Secret of Patents\” is that Most are Worthless to Their Owners. Here is Why.

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Notwithstanding the vast corporate and entrepreneurial resources expended each year to file, prosecute, manage and maintain patents, a significant majority […]

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The IP Zone: A New Concept for Introducing Needed Information and Efficiencies into the Patent Monetization Market

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Many corporations and entrepreneurs today understand that patents are increasingly bought, sold and traded, just like many other assets. However,

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Scott Garrison Guest Posting: A True Story of Wasted IP Assets & Why a Chief IP Officer Could Have Stopped the Loss

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NOTE TO READERS: Since I am on vacation this week (well, sort of), I have asked my friend Scott Garrison

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Entrepreneurs: Ask 2 Simple Questions to Determine Whether IP Strategy is Critical to Your New Business Venture

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Intellectual property (\”IP\”) is often a subject that is \”out of sight, out of mind\” for entrepreneurs who are launching

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How a Patent Strategy Focused Only on Obtaining the Lowest Cost Patents May Reveal a Company\’s Future Inability to Remain Viable

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Commentators like me frequently rail against what we view as the often unnecessarily high cost of obtaining patent protection. In

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Confessions of a Reluctant Convert to Electronic Patent File Management Systems & Why I Am Now a True Believer

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For many years, vendors of office automation systems expended considerable effort trying to convince corporate and law firm patent attorneys

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A Consumer Product Company\’s Costly Patent Lesson: It\’s Not Enough to Protect the Invention, the Innovation Must Also be Patented

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A SVP at a large consumer products company recently expressed frustration that he cannot bring a patent infringement lawsuit even

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Chief IP Counsel: Stop Trying to Change How Your Lawyers Bill You and Focus on the Model They Use to Provide Your Legal Services

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As legal service fees continue to rise five percent or more year after year, corporate IP managers, such as Chief

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