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Jeff Goodwin is the author of “AI Robots Running Your IP Renewal Strategy“. Companies have seen their IP portfolios grow significantly since the 1990s, but with a growing portfolio comes growing costs, both in prosecution and renewal fees. As the cost to maintain a portfolio continues to grow, companies need to start thinking smarter and …

November 6-7th, 2019 The Conference is an annual event that brings together 30 to 40 key decision makers across a broad selection of industries to focus on IP issues related to business strategy, value generation and potential disruptions in the business environment.

Seth Cronin is the author of the whitepaper “Methods of Rapidly Developing an Intellectual Property Portfolio.” This whitepaper explores the techniques and strategies used in dozens of engagements to build large, robust patent portfolios for clients in a short amount of time. This strategy can be invaluable for early stage companies, companies seeking to pivot …

The whitepaper co-authored by John Cronin and Seth Cronin explores the value that companies can create in the market and for shareholders by developing strategic IP (patents and trade secrets) at a rapid pace. Read the full whitepaper here. In order to challenge you as an executive or an investor of a small or early …

ipCG is beginning to see a “cross pollination” happen in the brewing industry. Specifically with Robot Process Automation (RPA) which is a form of Artificial Intelligence.

POSTED BY John Cronin AT 12:20 P.M. Nov 20, 2018 It’s been two decades since Intellectual Property (IP) and its development became a defining element in investment strategies for parties on both sides of the negotiation table. In the late 1990’s, investors wanted their dot-com startup companies to have patents, as it would help the company appear …

Michael Baker and Kennyn Statler, Consulting Manager, and are co-authors of “CRISPR Decision Highlights the Importance of Strategic Claims Drafting“. The battle over CRISPR (Clustered regularly-interspaced short palindromic repeats) patents highlights the importance of having a sound patent strategy before filing the first disclosure.  The University of California v. Broad Institute, Inc. is an excellent example of …

BY: Kennyn Statler and Michael Baker CRISPR Decision Highlights the Importance of Strategic Claims Drafting  The battle over CRISPR (Clustered regularly-interspaced short palindromic repeats) patents highlights the importance of having a sound patent strategy before filing the first disclosure. The University of California v. Broad Institute, Inc. is an excellent example of the difference a well-executed strategy …

POSTED BY John Cronin AT 9:22 A.M. Oct 24, 2018 When deciding where to file patents, that is, what other countries should a patent be filed in other than the inventor’s home country, there are important considerations that need to be evaluate and weighed against each other. This creates a “foreign filings decision matrix” approach. Here are some …

POSTED BY John Cronin AT 6:28 P.M. Oct 17, 2018 Here is an excerpt from ipCG’s latest whitepaper: What is AI, and what does it have to do with IAM or IP? Artificial Intelligence (AI) goes back to the 1950’s, as defined by Minsky & McCarthy, to be “any task performed by a program or a machine …

POSTED BY John Cronin AT 12:46 P.M. Oct 17, 2018 The day has come where large innovation labs built by companies may not be needed. Why spend hundreds of millions to billions of dollars on a physical structure, staffed with creative people and equipped with the best tools, when this all can be virtualized? In this context, …