Licensing your Invention
Profiting from intellectual property requires a choice: license your patented invention for royalties, or produce it, market it, and sell it yourself….
Twenty years of tinkering and persistence. Then a lucrative licensing deal.
Determination, dilligence and a mid-life layoff were all he needed to make his invention the biggest-selling snow shovel in the U.S. and…
Avoiding Infringement is a Subtractive Process
How do we avoid infringing others’ patents while obtaining the strongest patent possible for our own invention? When we focus on protecting…
Patent Granted! Convert a snowboard to a skateboard/longboard.
Congratulations to our client Roberto Smith for his snowboard-longboard conversion kit, U.S. Patent No. 10427026. Convert a snowboard to a skateboard or…
Waxing Lyrica: Big Pharma Subverts the Patent Process
This December, the patent for Pfizer’s goldmine drug Lyrica will expire. Lyrica is prescribed for neuropathic illnesses such as epilepsy and fibromyalgia….
Idea People vs. Entrepreneurs
In judging whether to fund an entrepreneur, venture capitalists rely on more than just the gut feeling they’re famous for. In his…