Patently Strategic - Patent Strategy for Startups
Patently Strategic - Patent Strategy for Startups
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Prompting and Patents: What to Know Before You Ask AI
AI can now produce something that very much *looks* like a patent application. It can be long. It can be technical. It can have claims. It can use many of the right-sounding words in approximately the right-sounding places. But does it actually...
The Biotech Bargain: How Patents Help Turn Risk Into Medicine
Do patents make drugs more expensive? And what role does intellectual property play in getting new medicines from the lab bench to patients?The questions have never been more timely. Biopharmaceutical innovation sits at the center of so...
Design Patents: Building Better Moats
When most people think or speak generally about patents, they’re really talking about utility patents – or patents that are primarily concerned with how an invention is used and how it works. But as it turns out, this is just one specific type ...
Willful Infringement: When Patent Piracy Turns Egregious
Willful infringement is a patent law concept that applies when someone infringes a patent knowingly or with reckless disregard for the patent holder’s rights. It goes beyond accidental infringement, often involving a deliberate choice to use pr...
Patent Abandonment and Revival
Patent abandonment is the premature relinquishment of patent rights for an invention. Abandonment can happen voluntarily for various strategic and cost reasons, but can also happen silently and unintentionally. It can happen before the right is...
