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ROLE determines where to start IP-BC
Once in the "IP Corridor of Uncertainty" you will advance through a series of doors...
Patenting tasks, defined by your ROLE, will determine which door you open, when, and what you say and do.
ROLES include: CEO, Finance, Inventor/Innovator, R&D/Engineering, Patent Counsel, Product Marketing, Bus/Dev Sales.
Course LEVELs fit your need to know: ENTRY, INTERMEDIATE, ADVANCED, or ADVANCED-PRACTITIONER.
Review roles, then use role selector below and you will be offered the best course level to take.
ROLES/Need To Know Patent Responsibility
The patenting team is a diverse group with different levels of understanding and responsibility. ROLE determines how you delegate and what you're delegated for patent work flows.
- CEO's expect patents to offer sustainable differentiation.
- Finance wants predictable, with-in budget IP spends.
- Innovators/Inventors are challenged to create and pick the right Preferred-Embodiment (P-E).
- R&D/Engineering is expected to perfect the P-E at the lowest cost.
- Patent Counsel is tasked to get properly scoped & claimed monopoly rights.
- Product Marketing has to sort out the competitive landscape and position the offering.
- BusDev/Sales is charged with pitching the "must have differentiators" and closing the sale.
The goals of each team member may appear to be different and conflicting.
- Not withstanding, everyone wants patents to issue quickly and cleanly.
- What you are delegated will determine which IP door you’ll be tasked to open and the patenting decisions you’ll have to make.
In the course, we share the sequence of “door openings” from invention/conception to notice of allowance using our Big Bang Theory of IP Capitalization (BBT). You will learn the questions to ask at each decision point that will ensure you have the right conversations, yielding your mission critical answers.
Review the roles list, then scroll down to select a course starting point based on your need to know.
WHY? Enter the IP-ZONE with shared goals
Re-focus your utility patenting workflow as a team. Allow Schwartz to show you how to navigate the potholes on the pathway to patentship.
Align goals: The way to get airtight patents
TECHNICAL GOALS
Technical Leaders have the primary goal to find a path that ensures selection of the true Preferred-Embodiment and to get it properly protected. They identify the patentable matter, articulate the inventive step, ensure invention disclosure quality, optimize utility patenting workflow, and finalize the product pipeline. They understand the Big-Bang Theory of IP Capitalization and how to integrate patenting into product development. The technical leader that takes on the role of IP Champion engenders an atmosphere of TRUST and helps all players align their conflicting objectives.
LEGAL GOALS
Legal Leaders, whether an IP liaison, inside counsel, outside counsel, or a DIY inventor/founder, have the key goal of rapidly converting invention disclosures into complete provisional or non-provisional patent applications. They engage with the Examiner during prosecution to get to notice of allowance. Legal seeks to draft and file patents that minimize the risk of getting Office Action Rejections. They de-risk applications BEFORE filing by anticipating indefiniteness and ambiguity in advance. They involve the lead inventor to ensure the best claim scope, all in the shortest time and at the lowest cost.
MARKETING GOALS
Business/Product Leaders: CEO’s ensure their marketing team works with sales and business development to highlight key, patented differentiators. One of their goals is to make sure that the best competitive advantages are not only protected, but also that they are sold as part of the product line. Critical is setting core messaging in the value proposition to highlight and emphasize those unique "must have" elements and their benefits. Another key goal is to show how the differentiators create ROI for the customer by using sales stories that pinpoint financial outcomes that drive sales against the competition.
Utility Patenting Champions
Find the right LEVEL or PAK for their team
Start at any LEVEL - Upgrade at any time
INDIVIDUALS typically pick a LEVEL based on their IP tasking. IP-BC has something for every IP role/task. Use the LEVEL chart to see how easy it is to go down the IP learning curve with Schwartz. Can it be right for you now? Start on your "goto" LEVEL, upgrade at any time as needed. Hone your IP skills in days and months instead of years.
Executives in the know use IP-BC as an insurance policy to protect their vision. They know getting the IP journey on track is job number one when starting a business. Why? This is when the risk of "seeding traps" is extremely high, and legal mis-steps in IP protection can be very expensive and could result in cataclysmic downstream failures.
New CEO's, typically running a Startup in development/incubation, benefit from IP-BC by protecting their investment. They are usually in the process of launching a new product or business. Aspiring Entrepreneurs often rise as an IP champion, having a key management position, and take the lead in adopting IP-BC for the very same reasons.
PAKs are for IP champions. They are economically designed for TEAMS. IP-BC has something for every IP role/task. Can it be right for you now? Use the IP-BC/ENTRY(Champion-Edition) to take a look at the entire course. The Champion PAKs include all LEVELs. Get everyone IP savvy and hone your IP skills in days and months instead of years.
SUMMARY: You're here because you want to/need to know how to boost your teams ability to get airtight patents.
- As a "lone wolf" independent inventor (a rare breed), or an IP player with many IP hats seeking to further IP skills.
- As an independent IP Attorney in an IP law firm, working with inventors.
- As an IP LIASON or a patent agent working with the patent office on prosecution.
- Each player harbors one or more technical goals, legal goals, and/or marketing goals.
- IP-BoostCamp will refocus you into the IP-Zone
- Own your unique goal(s) and respect competing ones . . . collaborate better with others in the IP hunt.
Your ROLE determines your starting LEVEL
Example: IP Counsel (Gold) starts with Advanced-Practitioner. Innovator (navy blue) starts with Advanced
A kind awakening on Notice of Allowance
My awakening. Here's what I realized and why I developed the IP SAVVYS tools so you too can have "kind awakenings"...
Would be patent owners did not understand the IP zone. They could not explain how to secure SCA patents without suffering embedded flaws. They were not able to connect mutually agreeable objectives to optimize patent workflow. They had no common patenting language or guiding principles with which to confer with patent counsel or the examiner. Worse, they had no real understanding of the true risk of FATAL patent office rejections during prosecution...not how to anticipate them or how to avoid them. And, all too often, they did not understand the final scope of their issued claims (i.e. their monopoly rights).
Ill constructed Patents "rushed to the altar" showed every flaw in their prosecution's File Wrapper. If not outright abandoned, they were weak in scope, easy to work around, and handily invalidated. A patent prosecution wrought with “potholes” resulted in expensive patents with little or no value.
KIND AWAKENINGS are really possible! Patent flaws that killed SCA can actually BE AVOIDED with my repeatable claim de-risking method... TSM/BBT offers teams an "engineering discipline" for integrating patent drafting with product development, turning utility patenting from an ART ( or worse an After Thought) to a SCIENCE. Further, our IP SAVVYS approach enables all IP hunters to get into the IP-ZONE together. There's an IP-BC LEVEL for everyone in the IP hunt.
No matter your role, consider using the FULL Starter-Kit with the IP SAVVYS book as a starting point. It provides an end to end explanation of TSM/BBT. Then, based on your understanding of your patent teams tasking, select the right IP-BC LEVEL for each member.
Select and check-out the right course level by your ROLE
Start with any level/module - upgrade at any time for only the cost difference
