Ten Patent Portfolio Management Issues
'Some common issues encountered by companies in the management of the company's patent portfolio include:
1. Use preliminary and supplemental claim amendments....
2. Manage continuation or divisional patent applications and/or RCE's....
3. Partition your technology into inventions....
4. Consider the strategy or cost of pursuing improvements or extensions of your existing technology....
5. Consider low-cost procedural options....
6. Utilize appeals, teleconferences, and affidavits during prosecution....
7. Meet your duty of disclosure to the USPTO of known prior art....
8. Learn to let go when you need to and consider alternative approaches....
9. Identify licensing opportunities as well as litigation possibilities....
10. Use reissue, reexamination and interferences..."
Read more in this article by Dennis Fernandez via VC Experts.
