Patent Strategies for Business

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Summary: Patents are business tools.
Review: This book is a practical guide to the use of patents as business tools. It is aimed principally at businessmen and attorneys who are not patent specialists, but who do have opportunities that can be pursued by practical patent strategies. Other areas of intellectual property law are also touched on where they apply to software. Guidelines on how to invent-on-demand, to invent around your competitor's patents, and strategic management of patent portfolios of investment grade, are given. Industries for which patents are specifically discussed include: software, telecommunication services, financial and insurance products, and medical devices. The book presents ideas and strategies that have been successful for others, and that will be successful again. This is not an academic treatise or an exhaustive survey of the subject, but instead deals with important strategies and concepts that are seldom analyzed in print. Software and computer applications are now deemed to be patentable technology in the U.S.. Patents are not just for gizmos anymore. Financiers are now beginning to do real patent due diligence for their investments, and this book offers guidelines on how to do this. In the five years that I was a student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, we spent a lot of time developing and applying new ideas, but I cannot remember ever hearing the word "patent" mentioned. I certainly do not recall a course on the subject. I hope that this book will help to fill this gap and be of some use to the people at this excellent institution and for others similarly situated. In a sense, this is the book that I wish someone had written for me when I was an engineering student in the 1960's at MIT, or a law student in the 1970's. I hope that the book can now give others a faster start and a better direction in the nineties. This book aims to help businesses to make money. It does this by pointing out patent strategies and new legal developments that may offer profitable opportunities, in specifi

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Summary: Very good. A clear explanation of a difficult area.
Review: This is an excellent book. Good for both managers and patent lawyers

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Summary: The Classic Work that Invented the Field -- Timeless
Review: This is the timeless classic work that invented the field of Intellectual Property Asset Management. It coined and defined many of the key terms and concepts that rule the patent business today. Indeed, this book may be the first time that the three words "patents", "strategy", and " business" ever appeared together in the same sentence. Learn how to connect the dots between patents and profits, to turbo-charge your business plan, and pump up your bottom line. Includes early groundbreaking analysis of software and business method patents.