Rooted in the original patent mandate of 1474

Pre-Patent Pre-Partnering WISDOM

Modern wisdom for inventors

Before we go to market with our patent, our business strategy must be set best for our expectations — and realistically within the industry we are entering.

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Pre-Patent Pre-Partnering WISDOM

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Before we go to market our patent, our Business Strategy must be set best for our expectations, and realistically within the industry we are entering.

Pre-Patent Pre-Partnering WISDOM is the smarter modern way based first on the long history of the way the industry had succeeded in the past to comply with the aims and objectives of the original Patent Mandate known as the  “Venetian Patent Statute” in 1474.

Well before and up to the 1960-80 the USAPTO system was on the side of inventors’ created innovations, but after the evolution of the computer and software late in the 1980 and into the 1990, when the patent system had a problem of dealing with all the so many new technological developments in the electronic communications industry and was short of examiners and somewhere then the USAPTO had started surrendering to major monopolies like Microsoft, Apple, Google (Which created its own patents’ Database public system) while the original leader in business-machines since the 1920s IBM was not trying to shift the favoritism to itself, although IBM was the first major client employing the USAPTO for its thousands of patents.

This modern wisdom is dealing with overcoming the distortions of the USAPTO adopting the changes serving greedy competitive monopolies which resulted starting in the early 1980s when the patent system could not deal with the overwhelming workloads and complexities of computing evolution, and where the USAPTO also itself started adopting standards created so to serve the commercial interests of these monopolies like Microsoft, Apple, Google in standards you know as DOS, PDF, DOC, RTF, Mov, gif, jpg, HTML and many more — but the worst was and still is the drive to create the new America Invent Act and the worst yet is the PTAB power over new original invention, mostly those of value which led to the startup & exit way monopolies get more commercial power without moral or taxation responsibilities. Yet the real damage is to the innovations industry itself, where it is discouraging wise inventors to register patents.

In simple general description, the better wisdom now for wiser inventors is for an inventor’s company to search for the suitable intrigued Major Partner when it has a project ready to go to market and not try/strive to be attractive for Take-over by A Powerful Monopoly. But, if the small company is confident it can go to market alone and has strong reasons not be threatened by IP Piracy/Infringement, the original IP developer can enter the market alone and/or with the investor so to grow the promising new economic future alone for the company.

The method

How Pre-Patent Pre-Partnering works

Six practical stages from an idea to a market launch with the right partner.

1. Understand the industry

Map how your industry has succeeded in the past, who controls the route to market and what the real buyers need.

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Principles

Six principles of wise inventors

01

Strategy before market

Set your business strategy realistically for your industry before you go to market with a patent, not after.

02

Ideas are cheap until developed

An idea gains value when it becomes a working prototype. Development, and the sweat equity behind it, is what partners respect.

03

Protect before you disclose

Keep dated records, use NDAs, and plan your filings with a patent professional before any public disclosure.

04

Partner, don't just exit

Look for a suitable, intrigued and committed major partner when the project is ready, instead of striving only to be bought.

05

Know who controls the market

If major players control the route to market, a partnership may be wiser than going alone. If you are confident and unthreatened, go alone or with an investor.

06

Remember the original mandate

Since Venice in 1474, patents have existed to bring useful inventions into public use. Let that purpose guide your plan.

History

Six centuries of patent wisdom

1474

The Venetian Patent Statute

1624

England's Statute of Monopolies

1790

The first US Patent Act

1883

The Paris Convention

1970

The Patent Cooperation Treaty

2011

The America Invents Act

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