Intellectual Property
Apr. 18, 2013
Don't just patent everything, you need to have a strategy
Just because something is novel and potentially patentable does not mean that you should expend your technical staff's time and your patent dollars to patent it.
Antonia L. Sequeira
Senior Associate, Fenwick & West LLP
Antonia's practice includes analysis, counseling, prosecution, litigation and transactions involving patents and other intellectual property.
You can't patent it all. Inventors often want to patent every potentially novel detail of their technologies and patent attorneys are sometimes willing to help them do it. However, this type of unfocused, shotgun approach often does not lead to the strategic patent protection companies need to prevent competitors from copying their commercially important innovations. Startups and emerging growth companies should focus on building a patent monopoly around the most commercially important cho...
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