Patently Strategic - Patent Strategy for Startups
A patent focused podcast for inventors, founders, and IP professionals, covering the finer points, sharp edges, and nuances of startup patent strategy. Each monthly episode will feature a round-table style discussion amongst experts in the field of patenting. Patently Strategic is brought to you by Aurora Consulting, a patent strategy boutique that specializes in working with early stage life science, medical device, digital health, and software companies to develop valuable patent portfolios through highly tailored, comprehensive strategies.
Episodes
40 episodes
Petition Practice: Correcting PTO Errors With Your Patent
Patent examiners can make mistakes. Patent office clerks can misfile paperwork and cause procedural errors. The software tools, document formats like DOCX, and the IT systems your application passes through can have bugs. What recourse do you h...
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Season 4
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Episode 10
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1:09:00
Keeping Patent Pirates at Bay: ITC Portfolio Proofing Strategies
For inventors, the promise of the patent system is the right to exclude others from making, using, importing, and selling their patented innovations for a limited period. But how do patent holders actually enforce those rights, particularly whe...
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Season 4
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Episode 9
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1:07:28
Continuation Practice: Quality Patents Part 3
There’s not a more important concept that’s more widely misunderstood by those newer to patenting than continuations. So we’re dedicating Part 3 of our series on quality patents to everything you need to know about this essential step for futur...
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Season 4
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Episode 8
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1:14:50
PTAB Survival Guide: Quality Patents Part 2
The most terrifying thing that can happen to a patent owner is receiving what’s called an IPR or Inter Partes Review petition. This is a tool that accused infringers can use to invalidate patents. And they have … to alarming effect. As we’ve di...
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Season 4
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Episode 7
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1:10:21
Quality Patents
Is your patent a vanity piece of paper for your office wall? Or is it a reliable, defendable, assertable, property right? The difference is often quality. Is your patent simply a transactional cost and a large pile of legal bills for yo...
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Season 4
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Episode 6
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1:03:35
Inventor Stories: Robert Cameron and the Power of Perseverance
We’ve seen few entrepreneurial success stories that haven’t involved heavy doses of perseverance, grit, observation, and creative problem-solving. Today’s guest possesses these qualities in spades. And while I can’t necessarily recommend some o...
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Season 4
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Episode 5
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1:06:35
CAFC Chronicles: Costly Tales of Claim Construction Fails
The difference between getting claim construction right and getting it wrong is the difference between a valid patent and an invalid patent – and the difference between millions of dollars awarded from infringement decisions vs. ending up with ...
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Season 4
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Episode 4
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1:02:17
Patents and AI: Current Tools, Future Solutions
We’re talking about AI and its impact on the patent system.This month's episode evaluates where we presently are and considers where it could all be heading. Dr. David Jackr...
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Season 4
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Episode 3
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1:07:41
James Howard and the Black Inventors Hall of Fame
Our interview with James Howard, Founder and Executive Director of the Black Inventors Hall of Fame.James Howard is a college professor, design historian, entrepreneur, industrial designer, inventor, filmmaker, and restauranteur. He bri...
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Season 4
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Episode 2
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1:05:09
Claim Construction: Building Strong Patent Foundations
Claim construction is a process in which courts attempt to interpret the meaning and scope of the claims of a patent. It’s like reconstructing what an inventor and their practitioner meant back when they drafted the patent application. While yo...
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Season 4
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Episode 1
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1:11:10
Patenting Games: From Pieces to Pixels
From patenting classic boardgames like Monopoly and Battleship back in the 1930s to challenges with protecting modern innovations in areas like game development and VR, our experts are breaking down everything you need to know about patenting g...
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Season 3
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Episode 9
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57:16
Patent Claims: The Name of the Game
We’re talking about claims – the fundamental building blocks of a patent. There simply is not a more important concept to grasp in all of patenting. As a former chief justice of the Federal Circuit once famously said, “The name of the game is t...
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Season 3
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Episode 8
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1:07:54
Government Grants and Patent Rights: SBIR, STTR, and Your IP
In this month's episode, we’re talking about the use of government grants and the strings that can come attached to your IP! We’re exploring the various types of small business research grants, how the Bayh-Dole Act regulates inventions generat...
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Season 3
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Episode 7
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1:03:33
Jack Daniels, Mickey Mouse, and Andy Warhol Walk Into a Bar
In this month’s episode, we’re talking about Jack Daniels, Mickey Mouse, Andy Warhol, Jason Voorhees, Winnie-the-Pooh, Lizzo, and WallStreetBets … What do they have to do with patents you might fairly be wondering? Honestly, not much. P...
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Season 3
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Episode 6
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1:51:46
Why Patents Exist with Professor Adam Mossoff
Why do patents exist in the first place? What function do they serve in society? And what is their historic origin story? In this month’s episode, with the help of Professor Adam Mossoff, we zoom way out, turn the time dial back a bit, and focu...
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Season 3
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Episode 5
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2:06:27
What Investors Want in Patents with Sridhar Iyengar
What do investors want to see in patents? What do patents tell a potential investor about a founder? And what do investors wish inventors knew before coming to them?To answer these questions and more, we're joined this month by Dr. Srid...
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Season 3
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Episode 4
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54:51
Open Source and Patent Rights: Collaboration with Consequences
How does the use of or contribution to open-source software impact your intellectual property rights? In this month's episode, we’re talking about software and the convoluted risk/reward interplay between patents, copyrights, and open s...
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Season 3
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Episode 3
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52:07
Patent Wars: Innovators, Revolutionaries, and the Race to Reform
In this month's episode, we're talking patent reform solutions with Judge Paul Michel, Professor Adam Mossoff, and Randy Landreneau!Nearly two decades worth of Federal Circuit and Supreme Court rulings have thrown the patent system into...
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Season 3
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Episode 2
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2:34:42
SCOTUS in Focus: Amgen v. Sanofi and the Future of Pharma Patents
We’re leading off Season 3 with a close look at a Supreme Court patent case that could have profound impacts on the invention enablement problems we covered heavily in Seas...
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Season 3
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Episode 1
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1:25:11
License to File: Foreign Filing License Risks and Strategies
Foreign filing licenses – surprisingly sneaky and easy to overlook, but can come with significant consequences if you do. Many countries, including the US, require inventors to receive special permission to file with patent offices outside of t...
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Season 2
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Episode 12
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42:33
Top 3 Inventor Mistakes: Disclosure, Search, and Ownership
If there were a guidebook we could hand to inventors on the first day following the conception of their idea, this episode would be it. When is it safe to talk about or sell your invention? How do you hedge against invalidation and reje...
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Season 2
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Episode 11
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48:56
Unpredictable Arts: Patenting Bio, Chem, and Emerging Technologies
Think your innovation is sufficiently enabled to secure, defend, and assert your patent rights? If it’s a biological, chemical, or emerging technology invention then you might want to think again. In today’s episode we’re looking into how to ge...
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Season 2
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Episode 10
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1:04:13
Into the Patentverse Vol. 2: AR, VR, and Virtual Infringement
We’re slipping our headsets on and heading back into the Metaverse! Earlier this year, we began our foray into this world with a deep dive into the building blocks that could very well form the structural and economic underpinnings of the Metav...
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Season 2
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Episode 9
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1:01:38
Means-Plus-Function: The Risk of Losing Your Way
Word choice matters a great deal in the world of patenting. You’re using the English language to draw a picture around highly technical concepts. The precision with which this is done, down to the semantic level, can make all of the difference ...
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Season 2
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Episode 8
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50:38
From Alice to Axle: IP Uncertainty for the Innovation Economy
In today’s episode, we’re discussing a recent court decision that judges have said could threaten "most every invention for which a patent has ever been granted", turning the patent system into a "litigation gamble."
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Season 2
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Episode 7
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1:00:02