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Should you File a Divisional, Continuation, or Continuation-in-Part before your Patent Issues?

Your patent claims are allowed. Your patent is going to issue soon. Congratulations!

Make sure you don’t miss the opportunity to make an informed, strategic decision about whether to keep your patent options open by filing a new patent application and claiming priority to your allowed patent application while it is still pending.

You probably already know that patent applications can claim priority to each other. This lets applicants create a chain of applications, if they want. There are reasons to do this–sometimes the patent office restricts which claims can be examined, and other times applicants want to extend the pendency, or examination cycle, of their patent applications–and there are other reasons to avoid linking patent applications together.

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IP Strategy Weekly Roundup (5 May 2020)

IP Strategy sits at the crossroads of technology, law, and business. With a focus on competitive advantage, IP Strategy can be aligned with Business Strategy to create and exploit powerful positioning and meaningful differentiation within a competitive landscape.

Every once in a while, a new technology, an old problem, and a big idea turn into an innovation.
– Dean Kamen

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Intellectual Property Strategy – An Integrated Approach to Aligning your IP Assets with your Business Strategy

What is an Integrated Intellectual Property (IP) Strategy?

In the broadest sense, an Integrated IP Strategy refers to a comprehensive strategy that accounts for the specific details of a particular entity and its IP opportunities. This will be different for every company, creator, and IP owner because strategy is, in its very essence, built on market and resource heterogeneity, rather than homogeneity. Consequently, the optimal IP strategies for two different entities, technologies, market, or even business divisions within the same company will uniquely correlate with those circumstances that are unique to each situation.

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Nine Ways Intellectual Property will be Impacted by COVID-19

Here are some ways I predict the IP landscape will be impacted by the devastating impacts of COVID-19. You’ll notice I only listed eight below–I saved the ninth way for you. What is the other way you think IP will change?

  • IP Litigation. Litigation inevitably increases after economic downturn. IP litigation will continue or increase as market scarcity increases and, consequently, competition for the same market segment rises.
  • IP Strategy. Businesses that lack strategic direction will seek strategic counsel and insight. The top priorities of IP owners will be 1) make sure legal teams understand business strategy and objectives, and 2) find ways to qualitatively and quantitatively evaluate, implement, and report on alignment of IP Strategy with business strategy and objectives.
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