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2022-09-17 PDF 41 - Can I Be Forced to License My Invention to a Competitor?
2022-08-03 PDF 40 - How Do I Know My Patent Is Worth the Paper That It is Printed On?
2022-07-13 PDF 39 - Should Your Patent Practitioner Tell You to Abandon When a Patent Is Still Possible?
2022-06-22 PDF 38 - Hey, First Office Action! What, Everything Rejected!?
2022-06-01 PDF 37 - They're Selling Our *&^$#%@* Design!
2022-05-11 PDF 36 - What to Expect When You Change Patent Firm?
2022-04-13 PDF 35 - What Does the New European Patent System Mean for Your Patent Strategy?
2022-03-23 PDF 34 - I'm Adding Some AI to My Product. A Patent Should Be a Slam Dunk, Right?
2022-03-02 PDF 33 - Five Ways Great Inventions Ended up with Not-So-Great Patents
2022-02-09 PDF 32 - My Invention Can Be Implemented with 500 Different Circuits
2022-01-19 PDF 31 - Can't I Just Hide My Invention in My Chip?
2021-12-29 PDF 30 - How Patents, Secrets, Open Source, and Reverse Engineering Help Humanity
2021-12-08 PDF 29 - Geez, One-and-a-Half Page to Describe my Netlist in One Sentence!
2021-11-17 PDF 28 - CES or DAC Is within Weeks. I Gotta Present and Demo There!
2021-10-27 PDF 27 - Is it OK if I Can Hardly Recognize My Own Invention in the Patent Application?
2021-10-06 PDF 26 - So What If the Patent Guy Doesn't Understand?
2021-09-15 PDF 25 - I Can't Wait for the Patent Office for Three Years, Can I?
2021-08-25 PDF 24 - Can I Check If My Patent Guy or Gal Is Doing a Good Job?
2021-08-04 PDF 23 - Do I Really Need to Spend So Much Time to Get a Patent?
2021-07-14 PDF 22 - They Don't Understand My Invention!!
2021-06-23 PDF 21 - Why Are Patent Claims So Weird, Anyway?
2021-06-03 PDF 20 - My Company is in Brazil. How Do I Manage Patenting Worldwide?
2021-05-14 PDF 19 - How Many of Those Patent Office Actions Should I Budget For?
2021-04-23 PDF 18 - Should I Pay Extra to Get the Patent Faster?
2021-04-02 PDF 17 - A Prior Art Search Before Filing the Application 
2021-03-12 PDF 16 - How Do I Screen My Employee's Invention Before Deciding on a Patent? 
2021-02-19 PDF 15 - How Do I Know if My Invention is Patentable?
2021-01-29 PDF 14 - I Want to Use an FPGA Before an ASIC
2021-01-08 PDF 13 - I Want to Protect It Now, But Am Still Working Out Architecture Details
2020-12-18 PDF 12 - My Invention is Vital for My Business Plan. But I Don't Have Much Money Yet. How Can I Save?
2020-11-27 PDF 11 - What Makes an Inventor, and How Can I Stimulate Innovation?
2020-11-06 PDF 10 - Should I Do a Provisional, Non-Provisional, or a PCT?
2020-10-16 PDF 09 - My CTO Can't Explain His Invention to Me.
But He Is the Smartest Guy in the World.
2020-09-25 PDF 08 - I'll Be A Billionaire Soon Enough.
But Now I'll Just Buy This Book on Patent Writing on thriftbooks.com.
2020-09-04 PDF 07 - Woohoo! I Invented a Huge Improvement over My Competitor's Invention!
2020-08-14 PDF 06 - How is a Chip or Firmware Patent Different than Other Patents? What About a Software Patent?
2020-07-24 PDF 05 - Choosing the Right Patent Person for Your Inventions
2020-07-03 PDF 04 - In What Countries Should I Patent, Anyway?
2020-06-12 PDF 03 - Developing an IP Protection Strategy for Your Semiconductor Company – PART II
2020-05-22 PDF 02 - Developing an IP Protection Strategy for Your Semiconductor Company – PART I
2020-05-01 PDF 01 - So You Got This Great Idea That Will Wipe Out Competition. Now What?

 

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