Strategic Development
Is your company missing vital opportunities to protect your innovation and ideas?
Does your company’s great idea become the next big commodity as all of your competitors some out with the same or similar product?
In my experience, protecting innovation requires creating a “patent culture.” This involves several steps:
Executive staff making the commitment.
Getting buy-in from management to make patents an important part of the product development process.
Creating specific goals, metrics, and incentives.
Budgeting for the patent program.
Educating the innovators, usually the engineers and product managers, through focused training.
Selecting one person within the company to became the “patent champion” or program manager to “own” the program.
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Work with a licensed patent practitioner or firm, such as Stone Creek, LLC, to prosecute all of your patents.
Here is how I can help:
Listen & Recommend
Work with your executive staff and management to setup a patent program tailored to your company and aligned with your business goals. I can recommend specific goals, incentives, and budget, as well as help to identify your patent program manager.
Get Buy-in From Staff
Help to facilitate buy-in from management through highly focused in-house seminars tailored to busy managers.
Monitor Progress
Monitor the progress of your program and be a mentor to your patent program manager so that he or she becomes a true “patent champion."
Train Staff
Offer introductory and follow-up in-house highly interactive workshops with your innovators. Your engineers and product managers will learn how to identify potential patents, understand the patent process, write effective patent disclosures, and create a patent mind set throughout the product development process.
Prosecute Your Patent Applications
Write, file, and prosecute your patents with the United States Patent and Trademark Office. This includes patentability searches and opinions, filing patents, responding to Office Actions from examiners, managing maintenance fees, as well as filing appeals and interferences.