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Building Your IP Strategy for Patent-Intensive Tech Startups – Part 4: IP Mapping
This is the last in a four-part blog series on how to build an IP strategy for patent-intensive tech startups.
16 Nov 2018
WHY TECH STARTUPS NEED TO PLAY OFFENSE WITH PATENTS (AND WHY BIG TECH COMPANIES DON’T)
Patents are valuable business assets, and a smart patent portfolio can give your tech company…
25 Oct 2018
MAPPING YOUR PATENT STRATEGY: 5 MILESTONES TO EVALUATE SUCCESS
Growing a technology enterprise requires strategic planning and coordination of fundraising efforts, research and development, sales and marketing, product releases,…
18 Oct 2018
CLARIFYING SECTION 101: USPTO DIRECTOR ANDREI IANCU PROPOSES NEW GUIDANCE
During last month’s Intellectual Property Owners Association 46th Annual Meeting, USPTO Director Andrei Iancu announced that the USPTO is considering “revised…
5 Oct 2018
ARIOSA V. ILLUMINA: DO PROVISIONAL PATENT APPLICATIONS COUNT AS PRIOR ART?
In a previous blog post, we discussed whether secret sales should count as prior art under the AIA. The Supreme Court…
28 Sep 2018
HELSINN V. TEVA: DO SECRET SALES COUNT AS PRIOR ART UNDER THE AIA?
In the patent world, the boundaries of what is considered prior art can be fuzzy and dynamic. The recent case of …
27 Jul 2018
PATENTING THE INTERNET OF THINGS: 4 CHALLENGES FOR TECH COMPANIES
The Internet of Things (IoT) is an emerging class of technologies that’s already revolutionized the way we go about our…
3 Jul 2018
PROSECUTING SOFTWARE PATENTS IN THE UNITED STATES: LATEST DEVELOPMENTS
In 2014, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Alice Corp vs. CLS Bank that abstract ideas implemented on…
24 May 2018
SHOULD SOFTWARE STARTUPS SEEK PATENT PROTECTION?
Software patents are somewhat controversial in both the legal and technical worlds. There’s a well-documented public policy debate about whether…
8 Feb 2018
WHEN’S THE RIGHT TIME TO START THE PATENT PROCESS?
At Henry Patent Law Firm, we frequently hear from innovators and startup owners who are seeking to patent their inventions.
28 Dec 2017
WE’RE A STARTUP. DO WE REALLY NEED A PATENT ATTORNEY?
The cost of obtaining patent protection can run high. Because many tech startups are operating under a limited budget, they…
14 Dec 2017
4 STRATEGIES TO STRENGTHEN AN EXISTING PATENT PORTFOLIO
Last month, we published a blog post on the basics of launching a successful patent portfolio. That post was geared…
7 Dec 2017
CLAIM STRATEGIES FOR PATENT APPLICATIONS: CAN YOUR PATENT CLAIMS EVER BE TOO NARROW?
This is the second in a two-part blog series on the scope of your patent application’s claim set. (Read Part…