Innovation Strategy

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

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

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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

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

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Do You Know Your Company Needs Strategic In-House IP Counsel, But Think You Can\’t Afford It? One Company\’s Solution is Hiring Part-Time Counsel

Analysts say that the current economic downturn will likely last at least until early 2010. While this no doubt seems

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Companies Adopting Open Innovation Methodologies Must Incorporate Patent Information for Maximum Value Creation

Open Innovation is unquestionably becoming a \”hot\” area of focus for U.S. companies, especially in the current economic climate in

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Investors in the Green Economy: You Could Lose Your Investment in Green Innovators by Failing to Identify the Green Inventors that Came Before Them

With President-Elect Obama\’s announcement that he will establish an \”Apollo Project\” to develop a Green Economy, there is no doubt

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Taking a Disciplined Approach to Protecting Innovation Investment Allows You to Reduce Legal Spends While Still Obtaining Necessary Patent Rights

This week, I am intrigued by what appears to be a recent convergence of reporting and blogging about the state

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Investors Can Predict the Winners of the Alternative Energy Race: Follow the Patents

It seems that in just the last few months, reduction of US dependence on foreign oil has moved from an

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Recent BusinessWeek Article Confirms that Energy Innovation is Rampant: Why These Innovations Should be Patented

This current BusinessWeek article entitled \”The Real Question: Should Oil be Cheap?\” confirms that innovations directed toward energy savings are

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Corporate Managers: Are You Failing to Obtain Maximum Value from Your Energy Savings and Green Innovations by Ignoring Patent Issues?

In this world of ever rising energy costs, your company likely has one or more teams of people working to

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