Your Soon-to-be-Obsolete Guide to AI in the Patent World The best advice I heard this year was “If you aren’t using AI for an hour a day, you’re making a big mistake”. Maybe it was an hour a week. Half my usage is getting Grok to answer questions for my kids. Then they always want to ask his favorite food. Kids love AI and seem to treat it like just another [...]
This one goes back more than a few years, but it’s being resurrected because the issues are timeless, and it’s a little amusing looking back when I was just a bit feistier, at least in print. Email me if you have a good guess as to what year it first appeared. It was so tempting, but I didn’t dare poke the giant beast, even though I could have gotten away with it, [...]
How a Patent Shut Down a Competitor In Only 24 Hours Nothing more forcefully drives home a lesson you’ve been teaching for years than when what you’ve been telling others for years happens to you. I’ve been reminding everyone for years that having a patent can provide real competitive benefits, even if you never have to spend a fortune litigating it. I liken it [...]
And the Key Signs That Indicate When You Do I love to give advice, especially when I know my prediction will never be wrong. My favorite advice is to predict “a 50-50 chance of success,” because no matter the outcome I’m never wrong. My other favorite advice is recommending a patentability search. Because no matter the results, my client is happy. If we get [...]
(Short Answer: “Rarely.” Except…) As an inventor myself, I know the enthusiastic feeling that your invention is going to be an incredible success, and wouldn’t it be a tragedy if you had only the US market protected and the rest of the world was knocking off your invention willy-nilly without paying you a penny. Unthinkable, right? But good business decisions are [...]
How to Pick Trademarks That Help You Sell, and Won't Get You Sued One of the most fun parts of my law practice is helping clients pick trademarks. I don’t charge extra if I come up with an idea you love enough to use on a new product, or for your new company. I always promise that some day when my portfolio of successful brand picks is impressive enough, I’ll put a [...]
