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Welcome to my blog, a place dedicated to empowering all aspects of your intellectual property, including patents, trademarks, and more. Please take a look around and be sure to sign up for my newsletter to make sure you never miss a post.

Protect Privileged Communications

Confidential Communications  As in our personal lives, when your company is involved in a lawsuit (i.e., “litigation”), unless a communication is “privileged” or otherwise protected, your company can be compelled

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Get Instant Protection

By properly exploiting trade secrets, marks, and copyrights, your company can obtain enforceable rights immediately, inexpensively, and informally. When the potential risk-adjusted returns justify the costs, your company can seek

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Doubly Protect Your Inventions

All U.S. patent applications must include a description that is sufficiently detailed to empower a person having ordinary skill in the technical field of that application’s claimed concept(s) to successfully

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Neutralize Disputes

Leveraging your IP defensively, such as by counter-suing for infringement of your IP rights, your company can convince others to avoid or settle disputes regarding your company’s allegedly infringing activities.

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Dominate Unprotected Markets

Through careful selection of the countries in which to obtain protections for its intellectual assets, your company can leverage its enhanced profitability in those protected markets to subsidize, where legally permitted, competition-busting

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