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Submit a ProposalA Guide for Implementing a Patent Strategy
 | How Inventors, Engineers, Scientists, Entrepreneurs and Independent Innovators Can Protect Their Intellectual Property By Donald S. Rimai Copyright: 2019 | Status: Published ISBN: 9781119407058 | Hardcover | 313 pages Price: $125 USD  |
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This book provides a strategic framework for cost efficient engineering of market moving patent portfolios by organizing patent engineering efforts around the problems that innovators solve for their customers and not the technologies developed to solve these problems.
Audience
This book is primarily aimed at entrepreneurs, industrial engineers, scientists, and company managers. This book is 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 and be able to more effectively compete in the marketplace. It will also be of value to patent law firms, investment companies and not-for-profit organizations such as universities as this book shows how to extract profits from the intellectual property.
This book is primarily aimed at entrepreneurs, industrial engineers, scientists, and company managers. This book is 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 and be able to more effectively compete in the marketplace. It will also be of value to patent law firms, investment companies and not-for-profit organizations such as universities as this book shows how to extract profits from the intellectual property.
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. This book provides a strategic framework for cost efficient engineering of patent portfolios that protect your investments in research and development and that extend the market advantages that these investments provide.
The book 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 a company to control its product market. It also 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.
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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. This book provides a strategic framework for cost efficient engineering of patent portfolios that protect your investments in research and development and that extend the market advantages that these investments provide.
The book 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 a company to control its product market. It also 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.
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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. He is the author of Patent Engineering: A Guide to Building
a Valuable Patent Portfolio (Wiley-Scrivener 2016).
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. He is the author of Patent Engineering: A Guide to Building
a Valuable Patent Portfolio (Wiley-Scrivener 2016).
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Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
1 Background for Developing and Implementing a Patent Strategy
2 The Structure of a Patent
3 The Path to Obtaining Patents
4 Identifying Patentable Inventions
5 Identifying What Has Yet to Be Invented
6 Prioritizing the Inventions
7 Prioritizing Your Patent Applications
8 Proposing and Writing Claims
9 Conducting Prior Art Searches
10 The Mindsets of Innovators and Attorneys and other Cautionary Notes
11 Reviewing Your Proposed Patent Applications
12 Writing Your Patent Applications
13 The Next Step: Prosecution of Your Patent Application
14 What Next?
15 Final Thoughts
Appendix 1 Electrophotography: Building a Patent Portfolio in a Mature but Evolving Field
Index
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Preface
Acknowledgements
1 Background for Developing and Implementing a Patent Strategy
2 The Structure of a Patent
3 The Path to Obtaining Patents
4 Identifying Patentable Inventions
5 Identifying What Has Yet to Be Invented
6 Prioritizing the Inventions
7 Prioritizing Your Patent Applications
8 Proposing and Writing Claims
9 Conducting Prior Art Searches
10 The Mindsets of Innovators and Attorneys and other Cautionary Notes
11 Reviewing Your Proposed Patent Applications
12 Writing Your Patent Applications
13 The Next Step: Prosecution of Your Patent Application
14 What Next?
15 Final Thoughts
Appendix 1 Electrophotography: Building a Patent Portfolio in a Mature but Evolving Field
Index
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