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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 Importance to Product The importance of the invention to the overall product is one of those factors that can be hard to evaluate. The inventor might think…Read More

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 Alignment to Internal Business Plan Lets get into the checklist element – alignment to business plan. The most important level – level 5 – is when the…Read More

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 Internal Business Alignment A patent only has value when it is used. You can also think about it this way: it only has value when it is…Read More

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 Economic Value When we have the best design around alternative, we can figure out the value of the invention in dollars and cents. We would like to…Read More

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 Performance Advantage of the Invention The point of the design around analysis is to analyze our invention in light of the competition. We want to have an…Read More

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 Design Around Analysis The design around analysis is where we try to poke holes in the invention and find its weaknesses. Sometimes, this can be very hard…Read More

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 Actor Analysis Actor analysis is a concept that sometimes gets lost in the thought process. The concept of the actor analysis is simple: who are you going…Read More

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 Standards Essential Patents Standards essential patents are – in some respects – the holy grail of patents. Standards essential patents are those inventions that are so good…Read More

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 The First Patent Is Usually Not The Best Patent The story of the HP handheld scanner is a good example of one of my theories about inventing,…Read More

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 Outbound Licensing Potential Outbound licensing potential of an invention is the analysis of whether your invention could apply to other markets – markets that you might not…Read More