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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 Competitor Product Fit Large companies often look at patents as defensive tools. They want to keep other people from copying them directly. To some extent, this viewpoint…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 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 The Detectability Scale from the Checklist Level 1 on the detectability scale is undetectable without specific knowledge about implementation. Some examples may be manufacturing processes. Specialized manufacturing…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 Quid Pro Quo – Tropicana Patent There is a very important exchange that you make with the government when you file for a patent. You agree…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 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…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 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…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 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…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 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…Read More