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.

Improve Public Relations

Because its innovations tend to solve customer problems better, faster, cheaper, etc. than previous solutions, publicizing your company’s innovations can lead to good press for your company. What are some

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Strengthen Branding And Positioning

Your company can use its marks to select a distinctive brand, build widespread awareness of that brand, extend the brand to related goods/services, and educate the market about the innovative features of

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Complement Other IP

Although patent applications must enable others to implement their claimed concepts, and describe the best manner known to any of the named inventors at the time for doing so, as

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Rally the Troops

When a company’s management can explain to its employees, in concrete, well-supported, financial terms, why the company has elected to pursue its chosen IP-related goals, those employees are more likely

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Inspire Investments

The strength of your company’s IP portfolio can help convince investors and potential collaborators that your company is managed and staffed appropriately to succeed in profitably commercializing its innovations, thereby

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Manage Innovation And Knowledge

Once inventoried or described in writing, your company’s trade secrets and innovative concepts can be much more easily tracked, protected, and developed, thereby preventing the loss, neglect, or mismanagement of

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