The company, he adds, has served as a beacon, pointing the way to what is possible with a smart patent strategy.
This meant building a team of anywhere from ten to fifty people to deal with all the complexities of the process: chemistry, biology, regulatory affairs, clinical medicine, finance, business development, patent strategy, etc.
There, the court held that you could patent a strategy for managing a mutual fund with a computer.
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An overall corporate patent reexamination policy and strategy should take into account a number of factors, according to Itri.
"Patents and innovation are a critical component of Aptina's strategy, and Aptina's patent portfolio is the largest and strongest in the image sensor industry, " said Bob Gove, President and CTO of Aptina.
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By contrast, China has developed a National Intellectual Property Strategy, aggressively targeting 2 million Chinese patent applications annually by 2015, spurring initiative and innovation with cash rewards, houses and tax breaks.
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This is a common strategy for companies trying to replace a blockbuster that is losing patent protection.
Pfizer has long used a similar strategy, using an in-house generics firm to sell copycats of its own drugs after they lose patent protection.
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He tried to make a go of it by extracting fat patent licensing fees from technology companies, some of which paid up, but it seems licensing was not a sufficient strategy for Intellectual Ventures.
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