Intellectual Property Strategy
Strategic Alignment, Portfolio Management, Asset Performance, and Thought Leadership
[This post was originally published August 10, 2018, on LinkedIn by Jeff Holman.]
Congratulations!
Your provisional patent application is filed. You now have “Patent Pending” status.
Now what?
Continue reading “Next Steps: Provisional Patent Application”[This post was originally published May8, 2018, on LinkedIn by Jeff Holman.]
Ironically, the tasks of preparing and filing a patent application might be less stressful than actually making the decision to file. Very often, inventors file a provisional patent application, get “patent pending” status for 12 months, and then stress over whether to file a non-provisional patent application before the provisional patent application expires. Here are 10 criteria to help make that decision easier.
Continue reading “Patent Guidance: 10 Criteria for Deciding when to File a Non-Provisional Patent Application”[This post was originally published April 30, 2018, on LinkedIn by Jeff Holman.]
What makes a quality patent application? Utility patent applications must meet several criteria to qualify for patent protection:
[This post was originally published February 2, 2018, on LinkedIn by Jeff Holman.]
How many times have you found yourself scrutinizing your budget for opportunities to save money, control costs, and optimize productivity? You might find a way to save $100 on travel or $15 on office supplies, because you can easily evaluate the cost/benefit analysis of these expenses.
When it comes to your legal costs, do you find yourself making decisions with very little ability to articulate the benefits you’re obtaining? In terms of your patent portfolio, can you articulate the specific objectives of your portfolio? Or do you just assume you are “protecting” your inventions, because your outside counsel tells you what everyone else is doing, without a clear understanding of what “protecting” really means?
Continue reading “Are You Managing Your Patent Portfolio Strategically?”
[This post was originally published September 11, 2017, on LinkedIn by Jeff Holman.]
Different people and situations call for different decisions. And every decision opportunity is characterized by its context–trivial or critical, simple or complex, personal or group consensus. However, every team needs a guiding decision framework as a starting point.
Continue reading “Integrity Decision Framework”
[This post was originally published April 5, 2017, on LinkedIn by Jeff Holman.]
There are a lot of different definitions of strategy. Go ahead and search the internet–you will find an endless list of strategy definitions. Some of them are similar to one another, while others are wildly differenty. My abbreviated definition of strategy is the alignment of actions with objectives. Building on this abbreviated definition, I propose every viable definition of strategy must include at least four basic components.
