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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.

Impose Big Costs On Competitors

Once granted, a patent generally provides its owner with the right to exclude others, for a limited time, from making, using, or selling anything within that country that falls within the

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Ensure Prolonged Market Success

By performing clearance and non-infringement searches, your company can improve the odds that it does not infringe the patent or trademark rights of others, thus ensuring that any market success

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Improve Public Relations

Because its innovations tend to solve customer problems better, faster, cheaper, etc. than previous solutions, publicizing your company’s innovations can lead to good press for your company. What are some

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Strengthen Branding And Positioning

Your company can use its marks to select a distinctive brand, build widespread awareness of that brand, extend the brand to related goods/services, and educate the market about the innovative features of

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Complement Other IP

Although patent applications must enable others to implement their claimed concepts, and describe the best manner known to any of the named inventors at the time for doing so, as

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Rally the Troops

When a company’s management can explain to its employees, in concrete, well-supported, financial terms, why the company has elected to pursue its chosen IP-related goals, those employees are more likely

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