Comments on: What Should a CEO Know About Patents? http://www.ipwatchdog.com/2009/08/19/what-should-a-ceo-know-about-patents/id=5078/ Patents, Software Patents, Patent Applications & Patent Law Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:33:50 +0000 hourly 1 By: Gene Quinn http://www.ipwatchdog.com/2009/08/19/what-should-a-ceo-know-about-patents/id=5078/#comment-7973 Gene Quinn Tue, 25 Aug 2009 16:05:04 +0000 http://www.ipwatchdog.com/?p=5078#comment-7973 Katie- I agree that CEOs should take our patent bar review course, but how does one convince them that they should? They would easily get their investment back and make better decisions. -Gene Katie-

I agree that CEOs should take our patent bar review course, but how does one convince them that they should? They would easily get their investment back and make better decisions.

-Gene

]]> By: Katie http://www.ipwatchdog.com/2009/08/19/what-should-a-ceo-know-about-patents/id=5078/#comment-7970 Katie Tue, 25 Aug 2009 14:44:09 +0000 http://www.ipwatchdog.com/?p=5078#comment-7970 A patent bar review course would be helpful for CEOs to learn the basics and to know when they should have patent counsel involved. A patent bar review course would be helpful for CEOs to learn the basics and to know when they should have patent counsel involved.

]]> By: Gene Quinn http://www.ipwatchdog.com/2009/08/19/what-should-a-ceo-know-about-patents/id=5078/#comment-7906 Gene Quinn Wed, 19 Aug 2009 22:44:53 +0000 http://www.ipwatchdog.com/?p=5078#comment-7906 Paul- Amen! One of the real gems from my thesis research was along this topic. There is no great surprise why small and mid-size corporations engage in high stakes patent litigation death matches and why corporations in mature industries as a rule use patent litigation as a way of creating leverage. I think it is about time that I write more about this. -Gene Paul-

Amen! One of the real gems from my thesis research was along this topic. There is no great surprise why small and mid-size corporations engage in high stakes patent litigation death matches and why corporations in mature industries as a rule use patent litigation as a way of creating leverage. I think it is about time that I write more about this.

-Gene

]]> By: Paul F. Morgan http://www.ipwatchdog.com/2009/08/19/what-should-a-ceo-know-about-patents/id=5078/#comment-7903 Paul F. Morgan Wed, 19 Aug 2009 21:16:01 +0000 http://www.ipwatchdog.com/?p=5078#comment-7903 The most surprising thing that CEO's do not seem to know about patents is really just a matter of common sense. Few would consider costly major surgery without getting a second opinion from a medical expert in that field, not just the doctor who is going to get paid for the surgery. [Their insurance companies would probably not even allow that.] Yet CEO's all to often approve proceeding with patent litigation solely on the advice of the trial attorneys who are positioned to make millions in legal fees therefrom, win or lose, or their own in-house attorneys. For several thousand dollars they could get an independent second opinion on the proposed patent litigation from a competent patent litigation firm that is told in advance that it will not be trial counsel. The most surprising thing that CEO’s do not seem to know about patents is really just a matter of common sense. Few would consider costly major surgery without getting a second opinion from a medical expert in that field, not just the doctor who is going to get paid for the surgery. [Their insurance companies would probably not even allow that.] Yet CEO’s all to often approve proceeding with patent litigation solely on the advice of the trial attorneys who are positioned to make millions in legal fees therefrom, win or lose, or their own in-house attorneys. For several thousand dollars they could get an independent second opinion on the proposed patent litigation from a competent patent litigation firm that is told in advance that it will not be trial counsel.

]]> By: Gene Quinn http://www.ipwatchdog.com/2009/08/19/what-should-a-ceo-know-about-patents/id=5078/#comment-7892 Gene Quinn Wed, 19 Aug 2009 16:29:16 +0000 http://www.ipwatchdog.com/?p=5078#comment-7892 Ron- Thanks. By the way, I remembered the formula, I just had it with 2 Os and 1 H. Now that would be an invention! -Gene Ron-

Thanks.

By the way, I remembered the formula, I just had it with 2 Os and 1 H. Now that would be an invention!

-Gene

]]> By: Ron Reardon http://www.ipwatchdog.com/2009/08/19/what-should-a-ceo-know-about-patents/id=5078/#comment-7889 Ron Reardon Wed, 19 Aug 2009 15:49:04 +0000 http://www.ipwatchdog.com/?p=5078#comment-7889 Gene, This article should be required reading by all CEO's! Send it in to all the magazines that they read. Also, go the blackboard and write 1,000 times: The formula for water is H2O. :-) Ron Gene,

This article should be required reading by all CEO’s! Send it in to all the magazines that they read.

Also, go the blackboard and write 1,000 times: The formula for water is H2O. :-)

Ron

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