Intellectual Asset Management

Checklists Could be the Key for Managers to Understand Whether Their Company\’s Patents are Worth the Paper They\’re Written On

My friend Mary Adams of the Smarter Companies blog posted a brief article about Atul Gawande\’s recent book The Checklist […]

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Guest Blogger: How Patent Vulnerability Impacts Valuation by David Wanetick of IncreMental Advantage

(This week, David Wanetick, Managing Director of IncreMental Advantage provides readers if the IP Asset Maximizer Blog with an excellent

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

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

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

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

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If Your Company is Not Capturing IP-Related Tax Savings You are Likely Leaving Significant Money on the Table

I recently heard a group of tax experts spoke about issues related to intellectual property (\”IP\”), and since then I

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