Why Competitive Intelligence is Important?
Competitive intelligence is the ability to gather, analyze, and apply information about competitors, customers, and other market factors. These factors are responsible for a company’s competitive advantage. No business can operate in a vacuum. Every business is a part of...
Are Patent Monitoring Tools Worth It?
Patent monitoring, also known as “patent alerting,” is critical for a variety of reasons. Patent monitoring tools can be a valuable asset in a company’s arsenal. When done incorrectly, however, it is a huge waste of money. It is costly...
Competitor Intelligence: Using IP and Patent Data
Whether your company is at the top of the world or on its way there, you know that you always have a competitor on your tail. You may already be aware of who that competitor is, or he or she...
7 Elements of an Effective Defensive Publication
What is a Defensive Publication? An effective defensive publication is just what it sounds like: the publication of a disclosure that does not provide the publisher with patent protection but does offer defensive benefits, such as the formation of prior...
Defensive Publication vs Patent
Defensive Publication vs Patent? Do you also have the same question in mind? Patents and technical disclosures are examples of intellectual property included in a comprehensive IP strategy. Both are legal ways to publish an invention. However, determining which strategy...
Defensive Publication: A Low-Cost Supplement to Your Patent Strategy
In an ideal world with unlimited resources and IP legal department budgets, all invention revelations would result in patent filings. However, this was not the case prior to the current COVID-19 pandemic. Moreover, the pandemic has only made many companies’...
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