Controlling the Costs of Generating and Maintaining a Patent Portfolio through Patent Engineering

AuthorDonald S. Rimai
ProfessionRecently retired from Eastman Kodak, where he worked as a researcher and intellectual property manager in digital printing and adhesion science
Pages143-152
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Nothing worthwhile is free, an idea that certainly holds true for generat-
ing and maintaining patent portfolios . Cultivating a good patent portfolio
can be expensive; however, the cost of not having a solid patent portfolio
can far exceed the costs of having one. Moreover, by properly designing
a patent strategy that focuses on owning the problem , rather than simply
generating a random collection of unrelated patents , the total costs of
producing a patent portfolio can be substantially reduced. In this chapter
we discuss what having a solid patent portfolio actually costs in the United
States . Foreign  ling s , as well as their related costs, will be discussed in
the next chapter, as well as the many ways that signi cant savings can be
achieved while generating a strong, international patent portfolio for your
company .
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Controlling the Costs of
Generating and Maintaining a
Patent Portfolio through Patent
Engineering

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