Leveraging Patent Assets

• Author: Dylan O. Adams
• Profession: Seattle-based patent attorney
• Pages: 237-248

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Leveraging Patent

Assets

“If people don’t get paid for their inventions, that’s not a

good thing. In the case of many patents, there are people who

aren’t in a position to take them to the next level. If you don’t

enforce your rights, no one is going to enforce them for you.”

—Nathan Myhrvold, founder of Intel lectual Ventures

“IBM isn’t investing billions of dollars every year

into research and development— and winning more

patents than our top 10 competitors combined for

more than a decade—as an academic e xercise.”

—Samuel J. Palmis ano, former President and CEO of IBM.

Aer patent applic ations are led, while t hey are pending, and aer

they issue as patents, applicants will wa nt to leverage these patent

assets for their benet. Issued patents confer the right to exclude others

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