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Patent Drafting Tips
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Patent drafting tips

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Purpose for writing disclosures

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Purpose for writing disclosures

  • Capitalize innovative ideas
# Ideas are cheap
  • Protect key technology in our products
# There are so many competitors
  • Establish authority in a field
#I truly know my products
  • Develop patent assets
# What if my product do not sell

Good practice at IBM CRL

  • Incentive
# Patent filing award & Platea award
# High impact patent award
# Patent asset award
  • Patent Review Committee
# An attorney 
# reviewer with >2 platea
# Master inventor

Balance between projects and patent activities

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Many many ideas are patentable

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Brain storming on ideas which can expand or change a project

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Cross team idea discussion

An example

Tips to communicate with attorney

  • Write as clear as possible
  • Give as many examples as possible
  • Clearly mark every elements on a figure/Table/Equation
  • Carefully prepare search document (be professional and be clever)
  • Highlight claim points (less is more)
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