News, Tips, and Perspectives

Welcome to my blog, a place dedicated to empowering all aspects of your intellectual property, including patents, trademarks, and more. Please take a look around and be sure to sign up for my newsletter to make sure you never miss a post.

Get Instant Protection

By properly exploiting trade secrets, marks, and copyrights, your company can obtain enforceable rights immediately, inexpensively, and informally. When the potential risk-adjusted returns justify the costs, your company can seek

Read More »

Doubly Protect Your Inventions

All U.S. patent applications must include a description that is sufficiently detailed to empower a person having ordinary skill in the technical field of that application’s claimed concept(s) to successfully

Read More »

Neutralize Disputes

Leveraging your IP defensively, such as by counter-suing for infringement of your IP rights, your company can convince others to avoid or settle disputes regarding your company’s allegedly infringing activities.

Read More »

Dominate Unprotected Markets

Through careful selection of the countries in which to obtain protections for its intellectual assets, your company can leverage its enhanced profitability in those protected markets to subsidize, where legally permitted, competition-busting

Read More »

Impose Big Costs On Competitors

Once granted, a patent generally provides its owner with the right to exclude others, for a limited time, from making, using, or selling anything within that country that falls within the

Read More »

Ensure Prolonged Market Success

By performing clearance and non-infringement searches, your company can improve the odds that it does not infringe the patent or trademark rights of others, thus ensuring that any market success

Read More »

Sign Up For Mike's Newsletter

Newsletter Sign-Up