Patent Business Strategy

A New Framework for IP Strategy Conversations: Ex Post vs. Ex Ante (from IP P®OSPE©TIVE)

(Editorial Note:  I have gotten some great feedback from my recent post 9 Out of 10 Patents are Worthless:  Here\’s

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Success in Innovation Requires IP Counseling on the Front End: Here\’s How to Make it Happen

The 2009 Open Innovation Summit was held in Orlando two weeks ago.  The event was attended by corporate practitioners of

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The NY Times is Wrong: Patent Auctions Do Not Provide Indendent Inventors with \”Protection\”

Patent auctions will do little to help independent inventors sell their patents Those seeking ways to generate revenue from their

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Improve Your Chances of Obtaining a Patent at a Reasonable Cost and Time by Demonstrating the \”Wow Factor\” in the Application

A strong majority of people seeking patent protection to protect their products or technology leave the details the drafting process

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Start-up Entrepreneurs & CEO\’s: If Your Goal is Investment or Acquisition, You are Probably Patenting the Wrong Things

Do you treat your patents as a fence or a tollbooth? If you wish for your start-up technology company to

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

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

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Looking for Inside Info on the Automotive Bailout and Other Business Issues? It May Be Hiding in Plain Sight in US Patent Assignment Database

One of the under-utilized aspects of available US patent data is the business information effectively \”hiding in plain sight\” in

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