Intellectual Property Strategy

Everything\’s Negotiable: How Corporations Can Drastically Reduce Their IP Legal Costs without Sacrificing IP Quality

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Corporate legal managers and the business teams they support complain seemingly constantly about outside counsel expense, and intellectual property (\”IP\”) […]

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Want to Obtain Patents to Protect You from Competitors Knocking Off Your Innovative Products or Technology? It\’s Easy-Don\’t Be \”Selfish\”

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Recently the CEO of a start-up asked me for the most important advice I could give before she filed a

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Why Does Your Company Fail to Treat IP Asset a Corporate Asset? A New Article Proposes Organizational Behavior as the Problem

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While we can argue about the exact amount, without question, intangible assets form the majority of corporate value today. Matters

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50% of Venture Capital Investment is Lost: How Your Clients Can Improve These Odds by Using the Right Patent Analytics

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THE SKINNY ON THE QUALITY OF VENTURE CAPITAL-RELATED INVESTMENT DECISIONS If you are a counselor of venture capital firms or

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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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