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Invention2Exit: Patent Case Study Interview with Lynette Robinson Lynette is a sought-after speaker & performer, entrepreneur, and business coach who specializes in helping entrepreneurs go from lightbulb moment to launched in a fraction of the time, so they can skyrocket their sales and create the life and business of their dreams. Site: https://www.successacceleratorlive.com/join 

Craige interviews Alex Hargrove who talks about how he is buildng a fast growing business around his patented software technologies and developing a patent portfolio to protect his software. If you are interested in geting your own patents for your software patents, call (512) 649-1046 or visit us at ThompsonPatentLaw.com or schedule your Patent Needs Assessment now. If you would like to learn more about Alex or Netlaw please visit them at https://www.netlaw.com/ or connect with Alex on Twitter @HargroveAlex

In this episode of "Ask The Patent Attorney," Martin Schweiger interviews Craige Thompson, JD, EE, PE. Craige explains the golden key to avoiding multiple office actions.   

Summary:   ​In this episode of "Ask The Patent Attorney," Martin Schweiger interviews Craige Thompson, JD, EE, PE explains how to  secure IP rights for a series of inventive concepts.   The Patent Offense Book: Portfolio Manager's Guide to 7 Steps to a Safe, Secure Patent Portfolio

Summary: In this episode of "Ask The Patent Attorney," Martin Schweiger interviews Craige Thompson, JD, EE, PE explains his thoughts on the America Invents Act.  This show was originally posted in full here: ip-lawyer-tools.com Martin Schweiger´s firm Schweiger & Partners

Summary: What is the R&D Tax Credit?  Welcome to this special edition of the Litigation Quality Patent PatentCast. I'm Your Host Craige Thompson of Thomson Patent Law. This is a very special podcast because we're joined by Jeff Holmberg who's a manager a CPA with Froehling Anderson, out of the Minneapolis Minnesota office. He's going to teach us something very important for in the inventors and innovators who are seeking patents and are doing R&D.  We are going to talk about the very important R&D tax credit program. Jeff is an expert in he has been doing this for a long time in his career and specializing in the area and on this R&D Tax Credit. The R&D Tax Credit is especially important to people who get patents, because you know, we want to pay as little to the government as possible. That's the idea here when you're doing research and development.

Although ZeroClick's finger gesture patents were temporarily brought back to life on appeal, Apple has ample avenues to kill it off permanently on remand back to the trial court in the Northern District of California.  The patent, which was drafted pro se by a doctor who wanted to improve the patient charting process without having to click on a pointer, was not invalid on the ground that it should be interpreted in means plus function form (if it were so interpreted, it would likely have stayed dead).  Apple does not appear worried.  Apple appears to have simply used the opportunity on a relatively weak patent to try to undermine a huge swath of all software patents that might have been subject to means plus function rules.  Had Apple been successful, many more software patents would have been put on life support.  However, the Federal Circuit reversed Apple's win below, and the result is that software patent claims are more likely to survive if they recite terms like "User Interface Code" or "Program Code," which makes them more likely to be considered sufficiently definite structure (like "circuit" is for hardware), and less likely to fall under the more challenging means plus function rules.

As the CEO of a technologies company, have you thought about what would happen if your top engineers walked out the door with a patentable idea and started a very profitable business? Every employment agreement these days should have a clause obligating employees to assign their rights and invention to your company. However, this doesn't always happen. Every engineer will leave their current position at some point, and some of them will leave with extremely valuable ideas in their heads that they have been moonlighting on. In today's PatentCast, discover how an engineer walked out with valuable patentable ideas when his company was focused on GPS technologies for surveying applications. This former employer lost out on the "Big Win" when they could have had a very profitable idea without expensive or risky litigation.  

Is Your Patent Attorney Getting You the Right Claims? The first episode was about Litigation Quality Patent Claim Criteria. We went through the twelve, high-level claim criteria areas that you can use as a checklist to assess Litigation Quality Patent claims. Whether you're getting those claims that have been through those considerations or not. And today, we're going to ask the other half of that question: what about claim scope? Am I getting Litigation Quality Patent Claim Scope when I'm filing my patent application? How can you tell?   If you missed it, click here to listen to episode 1.