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 […]
Intellectual Property Strategy
Why Does Your Company Fail to Treat IP Asset a Corporate Asset? A New Article Proposes Organizational Behavior as the Problem
While we can argue about the exact amount, without question, intangible assets form the majority of corporate value today. Matters
The \”Dirty Little Secret of Patents\” is that Most are Worthless to Their Owners. Here is Why.
Notwithstanding the vast corporate and entrepreneurial resources expended each year to file, prosecute, manage and maintain patents, a significant majority
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
Entrepreneurs: Ask 2 Simple Questions to Determine Whether IP Strategy is Critical to Your New Business Venture
Intellectual property (\”IP\”) is often a subject that is \”out of sight, out of mind\” for entrepreneurs who are launching
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
Confessions of a Reluctant Convert to Electronic Patent File Management Systems & Why I Am Now a True Believer
For many years, vendors of office automation systems expended considerable effort trying to convince corporate and law firm patent attorneys
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
How Asking One Fundamental Business Question Can Reduce Expense and Improve Business Outcome of Patent Litigation
While a majority of companies consider the cost of obtaining patent protection an essential element of the product and technology
Confessions of a \”Recovering Patent Attorney\” and Why I Have Joined the Growing Ranks of IP Strategists
I often facetiously refer to myself as a \”recovering patent attorney.\” This somewhat tongue-in-cheek phrase seems appropriate to my present