Detectability of Your Invention
This is a transcript from a section of the course “Patents 340 – Invention Rating Checklist,” which is available here at IP.Education. Download the Checklist Get the Book Detectability Detectability is one of the most critical things for a good invention. Zero detectability can mean that a patent is absolutely worthless. The key question to [...]
How Small Companies Pick Inventions for Patents
This is a transcript from a section of the course “Patents 340 – Invention Rating Checklist,” which is available here at IP.Education. Download the Checklist Get the Book How The Checklist Gets Used In Small Companies For a startup company or a solo inventor, the checklist can be much more than another form to fill [...]
Standardizing Patent Decisions
This is a transcript from a section of the course “Patents 340 – Invention Rating Checklist,” which is available here at IP.Education. Download the Checklist Get the Book Standardizing Patent Decision Making The Invention Checklist distills all kinds of hard-fought lessons into a single page. The lessons learned come from making bad decisions and figuring [...]
Picking Inventions Is Hard
This is a transcript from a section of the course “Patents 340 – Invention Rating Checklist,” which is available here at IP.Education. Download the Checklist Get the Book Picking Inventions to Patent Are Very Hard Decisions – When Done Well These are painfully hard decisions - when done well. It may seem weird that I [...]
Using An Invention Checklist Badly
This is a transcript from a section of the course “Patents 340 – Invention Rating Checklist,” which is available here at IP.Education. Download the Checklist Get the Book Do Not Use The Checklist Badly The checklist is just a tool – a guide – that gives you some objective measures for evaluating inventions. The elements [...]
Invention Checklist Introduction
Introduction to the Invention Rating Checklist In this course, we will go through the Invention Checklist, which is available for free download from IP.Education. The checklist is explained in my book “Investing In Patents”, which is available on Amazon. Prerequisites: This course is designed for anyone involved in either inventing or evaluating inventions. This […]
Patents and Novelty
This is a transcript from a section of the course "Patents 340 - Invention Rating Checklist," which is available here at IP.Education. Download the Invention Checklist Get the Book Novelty Novelty is one of the requirements for getting a patent. In the US, the requirement is that the invention be novel and non-obvious. In the [...]
IP 101 – Intellectual Property for Entrepreneurs
IP 101 covers the basics for all IP. Internally facing IP, externally facing IP, Trade Secrets, Copyrights, Trademarks, Patents – we cover it all. This is taught from the entrepreneur’s standpoint. What do you need to know as CEO of your own company? This gets you started.
Patents Have A Multiplying Effect
How Patents Can Have a Multiplying Effect on a Startup Company Multiplying An Investment With Patents The best patents are those that multiply an investment and actually generate money on their own. Some companies have devolved into purely research and development companies that license technology. The integrated circuit industry has almost completely changed to this model, where […]
Patent Myths
Getting a patent is the beginning, not the end. The Patent Bar often gives terrible advice for startup CEOs, but we as patent attorneys have a fiduciary duty to advise the client. Many patent attorneys, especially pay-for-services outside counsel, are giving terrible advice that is purely self-serving. Their advice is only designed to put money […]