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.
Continue reading “IP Strategy Roundup (16 June 2020)”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.
Continue reading “Should you File a Divisional, Continuation, or Continuation-in-Part before your Patent Issues?”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
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.
Continue reading “Intellectual Property Strategy – An Integrated Approach to Aligning your IP Assets with your Business Strategy”Four of the Fastest Fixes for your Patent Portfolio
Everyone is in crisis mode right now. Even businesses that are doing still generating acceptable revenues should recognize these turbulent times as an opportunity to implement a couple quick fixes to your patent portfolio. In case your portfolio growth has been lacking direction lately and growing without enough direction and deliberation, here are a few of the fastest ways to begin right-sizing your portfolio and controlling your costs.
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