Patently Strategic Podcast: Top Three Inventor Mistakes
The patent world is full of trap doors that lie waiting for unsuspecting inventors. Without a good map and an intentional path, mistakes and missteps can be plentiful and costly. Some of these mistakes...
View ArticlePatently Strategic Podcast: License to File
Foreign filing licenses – they’re surprisingly sneaky and easy to overlook, but can come with significant consequences if you do. Many countries, including the United States, require inventors to...
View ArticlePatently Strategic: SCOTUS in Focus – Amgen v. Sanofi and the Future of...
The United States Supreme Court is set to hear opening arguments in Amgen Inc. v. Sanofi on March 27. This is a case that could have profound impacts both on the invention enablement issues that have...
View ArticlePatently Strategic: Patent Wars – Innovators, Revolutionaries, and the Race...
Over the course of the past couple of months, Dr. Ashley Sloat and I had the opportunity and honor to host conversations with thought leaders across the patent world. Working from their insights, this...
View ArticlePatently Strategic Podcast: Open Source and Patent Rights
Use of free open-source code can be a massive accelerant when building complex software applications. Why reinvent wheels? And depending on resources and budget, sometimes it’s the only practical way....
View ArticlePatently Strategic Podcast: What Investors Want in Patents, with Sridhar Iyengar
Patents have many audiences, and folks from our industry tend to focus most on the patent office and the courts. But for inventors, they often care more, initially anyway, about investors. And...
View ArticlePatently Strategic Podcast: Why Patents Exist with Adam Mossoff
Why do patents exist in the first place? What function do they serve in society? And what is their historic origin story? In this month’s episode, with the help of Professor Adam Mossoff, we zoom way...
View ArticlePatently Strategic Podcast: Jack Daniels, Mickey Mouse, and Andy Warhol Walk...
Copyrights and trademarks, in particular, have seen a lot of limelight this year involving some of the biggest brands and pop culture icons. At the same time, major IP rights questions are erupting...
View ArticlePatently Strategic Podcast: Government Grants and Patent Rights
Non-diluting capital can be an essential source of funding when trying to get your innovation off the ground. Investor money comes with the loss of equity and/or control. Family and friends’ money may...
View ArticlePatently 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...
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