Patent Law

Staying Alive

By Gary Odom and Jordan Kuhn

As Wall Street floats on an ocean of dumb money, so invention floats on an ocean of dumb patents. Frequently, patent holders solicit Patent Hawk services with "lame duck" patents - a solitaire patent, often with weak claims, without any continuation. Are prosecution firms, many well-known nameplates, so inept as to not advise their clients to grow a portfolio, so as to improve claim scope coverage? So inept to not have a clue as to how patents are enforced, even as many of those firms work both prosecution and litigation? Repeated anecdotal evidence over the years answers a bit too emphatically "yes."

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Full post as published by The Patent Prospector on October 23, 2008 (boomark / email).