I’m a patent strategist, and I don’t care about your invention. That surprises people. When a startup founder calls me
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Here is a dirty little secret of my profession–patents confuse even the most sophisticated business people. I have watched CEOs
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“Is this spend on patent applications going to pay off for my company?” Founders ask me this before they hire
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Patent lawyers almost always open a new engagement with the same question—”is this patentable?”—and most entrepreneurs, having no reason to
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The prevailing practice in the patent profession is to file the claims the client asks for, or the claims the
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Every patent attorney is trained to begin at the same place: the very end of the development pipeline. We ask
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IAM has again included me in its Strategy 300, the guide to what the publication calls the world’s leading IP
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One-hundred % of patents make money for their lawyers, but very few–some estimates say 5% or fewer–make money for their
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Several of my current clients are startup companies that understand that, to have real value, their patents must be seen by
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