Patent Strategy

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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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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Proposal for a Reality-Based Methodology for Measurement of Corporate Intangible Asset Value

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In recent years, financial analysts came to believe that intangible asset value forms an increasing aspect of overall corporate value.

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How Asking One Fundamental Business Question Can Reduce Expense and Improve Business Outcome of Patent Litigation

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While a majority of companies consider the cost of obtaining patent protection an essential element of the product and technology

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Confessions of a \”Recovering Patent Attorney\” and Why I Have Joined the Growing Ranks of IP Strategists

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I often facetiously refer to myself as a \”recovering patent attorney.\” This somewhat tongue-in-cheek phrase seems appropriate to my present

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