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 | A Guide to Building a Valuable Patent Portfolio By Donald S. Rimai Copyright: 2016 | Status: Published ISBN: 9781118946091 | Hardcover | 246 pages Price: $150.00 USD  |
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The book provides a strategic framework for cost efficient engineering of patent portfolios by organizing patent engineering efforts around the problems that you solve for your customers rather than the technologies developed to solve these problems.
Audience
This book is primarily aimed at entrepreneurs, industrial engineers and scientists as well as company managers. It will be especially valuable for start-up high tech businesses that need to protect their intellectual property, as well as more established companies seeking to enhance the value of their patent portfolios. Patent law and investment firms dealing with patent technology and enhancing value will find this book to be very valuable. The book is also valuable to not-for-profit organizations such as universities that invent technology but who do not generally produce products.
This book is primarily aimed at entrepreneurs, industrial engineers and scientists as well as company managers. It will be especially valuable for start-up high tech businesses that need to protect their intellectual property, as well as more established companies seeking to enhance the value of their patent portfolios. Patent law and investment firms dealing with patent technology and enhancing value will find this book to be very valuable. The book is also valuable to not-for-profit organizations such as universities that invent technology but who do not generally produce products.
Description
Patents are a vital asset in the modern business world. They allow patent holders to introduce new products in to a market while deterring other market players from simply copying innovative features without making comparable investments in research and development. In years past, a few patents may have provided adequate protection. That is no longer the case. In today’s world, it is critical that innovative companies protect the features of their products that give them a competitive advantage with a family or portfolio of patents that are strategically generated to protect the market position of the patent holder. A patent portfolio that deters competitors from introducing competitive products in a timely manner can be worth billions of dollars. Anything less than this is an expensive and possibly fatal distraction.
Patent Engineering provides a strategic framework for cost efficient engineering of patent portfolios that protect your investments in research and development and extend the market advantages that these investments provide. In addition, the book:
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Demonstrates the value by organizing patent engineering efforts around the problems that you solve for your customers rather than the technologies developed to solve these problems
•
Illustrates the use of the problem centric framework to enable the efficient creation of individual patents and patent portfolios that have significant value in and by themselves and allow your company to control its product market
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Teaches how to use the problem centric framework to help address the challenge of designing international patent portfolios
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Introduces the concept of a patent engineer whose role it is to organize input from legal, business and technical communities and organize portfolios and patents using the problem centric framework
•
Provides a non-expert with a solid working knowledge of patents that will enable him to work effectively with legal counsel to produce solid patents
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Patents are a vital asset in the modern business world. They allow patent holders to introduce new products in to a market while deterring other market players from simply copying innovative features without making comparable investments in research and development. In years past, a few patents may have provided adequate protection. That is no longer the case. In today’s world, it is critical that innovative companies protect the features of their products that give them a competitive advantage with a family or portfolio of patents that are strategically generated to protect the market position of the patent holder. A patent portfolio that deters competitors from introducing competitive products in a timely manner can be worth billions of dollars. Anything less than this is an expensive and possibly fatal distraction.
Patent Engineering provides a strategic framework for cost efficient engineering of patent portfolios that protect your investments in research and development and extend the market advantages that these investments provide. In addition, the book:
•
Demonstrates the value by organizing patent engineering efforts around the problems that you solve for your customers rather than the technologies developed to solve these problems
•
Illustrates the use of the problem centric framework to enable the efficient creation of individual patents and patent portfolios that have significant value in and by themselves and allow your company to control its product market
•
Teaches how to use the problem centric framework to help address the challenge of designing international patent portfolios
•
Introduces the concept of a patent engineer whose role it is to organize input from legal, business and technical communities and organize portfolios and patents using the problem centric framework
•
Provides a non-expert with a solid working knowledge of patents that will enable him to work effectively with legal counsel to produce solid patents
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Author / Editor Details
Donald S. Rimai recently retired from Eastman Kodak where he worked as a researcher and intellectual property manager in digital printing and adhesion science. He is expert at developing patent portfolios and helping inventors patent their inventions. He is an Eastman Kodak Distinguished Inventor with more than 150 U.S. patents and over 120 scientific publications. He is a Fellow of the Adhesion Society and of the American Physical Society, and has won the Charles Ives and Chester Carlson Awards. In 2014 Dr. Rimai received the Inventor of the Year Award from the Rochester Intellectual Property Law Association.
Donald S. Rimai recently retired from Eastman Kodak where he worked as a researcher and intellectual property manager in digital printing and adhesion science. He is expert at developing patent portfolios and helping inventors patent their inventions. He is an Eastman Kodak Distinguished Inventor with more than 150 U.S. patents and over 120 scientific publications. He is a Fellow of the Adhesion Society and of the American Physical Society, and has won the Charles Ives and Chester Carlson Awards. In 2014 Dr. Rimai received the Inventor of the Year Award from the Rochester Intellectual Property Law Association.
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