Patently Strategic Podcast: Claim Strategies
Claims are the fundamental building blocks of a patent. There simply is not a more important concept to grasp in all of patent strategy. As former Chief Justice of the Federal Circuit, Giles Rich, once...
View ArticlePatently Strategic Podcast: Patenting Games
The global video game market topped $183 billion in 2022 and is projected to exceed $300 billion by 2026. To put those numbers into perspective, this makes gaming bigger than the film and music...
View ArticlePatently Strategic Podcast: Claim Construction
Claim construction is a process in which courts attempt to interpret the meaning and scope of the claims of a patent. It’s effectively reconstructing what an inventor and their practitioner meant back...
View ArticlePatently Strategic Podcast: James Howard and the Black Inventors Hall of Fame
What would you have been without a role model? What would you have done had you not known your career path was even an option? The answers to these career and life-defining questions often come down to...
View ArticlePatently Strategic Podcast: Patents and AI
For decades, conventional wisdom had most of us believing that automation and the inevitable rise of the machines would upend blue-collar industries first. But then AI had something to say about all of...
View ArticlePatently Strategic Podcast: CAFC Chronicles
The difference between getting claim construction right and getting it wrong is the difference between a valid patent and an invalid patent – and potentially the difference between millions of dollars...
View ArticlePatently Strategic Podcast: Robert Cameron and the Power of Perseverance
We’ve seen few entrepreneurial success stories that haven’t involved heavy doses of perseverance, grit, observation, and creative problem-solving. Today’s guest possesses these qualities in spades. And...
View ArticlePatently Strategic Podcast: Crafting Quality Patents
Is your patent application only good enough to get through the examination process? Or has it been crafted to stand the tests of time and varied audiences if you later need to assert that document...
View ArticlePatently Strategic Podcast: PTAB Survival Guide
The most terrifying thing that can happen to a patent owner is receiving an inter partes review (IPR) petition. This is a tool that accused infringers can use to invalidate patents. And they have … to...
View ArticlePatently Strategic Podcast: Continuation Practice
Void of pursuing continuations, the language of your patent is frozen in time at issuance. The specifics of the enforceable boundaries of your protection are forever fixed to the claims you chose to...
View ArticlePatently Strategic Podcast: ITC Proofing Portfolios
For inventors, the promise of the patent system is the right to exclude others from making, using, importing, and selling their patented innovations for a limited period. But how do patent holders...
View ArticlePatently Strategic Podcast: Petition Practice
Patent examiners can make mistakes. Patent office clerks can misfile paperwork and cause procedural errors. The software tools, document formats like DOCX, and the IT systems your application passes...
View ArticlePatently Strategic Podcast: Obviousness Case Law Review
An invention cannot be patented if the differences between a claimed invention and the prior art are such that the claimed invention as a whole would have been obvious to a person having ordinary skill...
View ArticlePatently Strategic Podcast: Dealing with Rejection
So, your patent application got rejected. Now what? In this month’s episode of Patently Strategic, we’re talking about rejection. Specifically, the type that comes from the patent office in the form of...
View ArticleParkerVision v. Rule 36 | Patently Strategic Podcast
If a court stripped away your property rights, wouldn’t you at least want an explanation? In this month’s episode of Patently Strategic, we discuss the Federal Circuit's practice of applying rule 36 at...
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