tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post2067431480389749884..comments2024-03-28T16:45:51.051+00:00Comments on The IPKat: Fear and Trembling: The MBA Slide on "Why Do People Patent?"Verónica RodrÃguez Arguijohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05763207846940036921noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post-55396830936037201452010-05-24T10:47:55.381+01:002010-05-24T10:47:55.381+01:00'6. Patents are used as a metric for evaluatin...'6. Patents are used as a metric for evaluating the success of a department or division.'<br /><br />In fact, HP used to run an advert boasting about the number of patents it had applied for; perhaps suggesting it was at the forefront of innovation? There's a certain irony in that.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post-59375271513455676232010-05-19T12:53:59.751+01:002010-05-19T12:53:59.751+01:00The private inventor or small company will probabl...The private inventor or small company will probably find that a large company will not discuss his invention unless a patent has already been applied for. One reason is to avoid any subsequent accusations of the large company stealing the invention if the large company happened to have already been working on something similar.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post-27807446425844239152010-05-18T12:39:57.287+01:002010-05-18T12:39:57.287+01:00Reference item 5. In my industry days a large am...Reference item 5. In my industry days a large amount of my employer's technology was highly secret. Inventors in the research laboratories wished their inventions to be patented so that their scientific credibility could be established; published patents name inventors. Due to the employer's commercial secrecy they were seldom if ever allowed to publish papers in scientific journals.Guynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post-21277536996493568292010-05-18T10:55:50.328+01:002010-05-18T10:55:50.328+01:00I have noted that the list is not ordered, however...I have noted that the list is not ordered, however some of the entries appear to go beyond, or to not directly correlate to, the question.<br /><br />Entries 3 and 5 to 10 are right on the money, obviously. <br /><br />However, I feel that entries 1, 2 and 4 do not appear to answer <b>why</b> patent protection is sought, but rather <b>how</b>.<br /><br />With the exception of entries 3 and 6 (optional, at the discretion of a company's HR practices) and 5 (dependent on a company's age, more the case with startups, less so with established businesses), many technically-involved businesses will at some or respective point(s) in time face <b>all of</b> the issues in connection with entries 7 to 10: in that context, the way I usually describe patents to business students, <i>in general terms</i>, is as a sort of '<i>corporate swiss army knife</i>': a multi-purpose corporate asset, available to create or bolster opportunities, and leverage the corporate position in defensive or offensive situations as required.Stephhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03939472170439107513noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post-13651422263199312252010-05-18T03:27:50.880+01:002010-05-18T03:27:50.880+01:00You have the corporate view. How about the garage...You have the corporate view. How about the garage inventor motives?<br /><br />Patents are sought for an inventor's self-validation, that he or she has invented something unique in the world, or is very smart.<br /><br />Patents are sought because an inventor believes that manufacturers will see the patent, license the patent, and the inventor will achieve financial success.Pamnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post-38215601832075851912010-05-18T00:55:46.354+01:002010-05-18T00:55:46.354+01:00The MBA is an interesting qualification. I recall ...The MBA is an interesting qualification. I recall my economics class calling for fair and open competition, my marketing class discussing strategies on how to avoid it and my financial engineering class discussing ways to ensure it never happened. <br /><br />In that context I am not surprised that there is a let's talk about patents class. <br /><br />I am grateful to your blog for (indirectly) leading me to this:<br /><br />http://www.baen.com/library/palaver4.htm<br /><br />Although mainly about copyright, its truths remind us that property is nothing more than a confection arising from legal developments and state dispensations not some inalienable right.<br /><br />Apart from the elegant and thoughtful language it could have been talking about matters today. It is a shame that Macaulay was not able to oppose the digital economy bill.Gentoohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05063939954837162413noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post-22627651918818565012010-05-17T22:38:10.213+01:002010-05-17T22:38:10.213+01:0011. Patents are sought to keep counterparties to c...11. Patents are sought to keep counterparties to collaborative projects honest about what contributions were made, by whom, and when. (As expensive as patent litigation can be, trade secret litigation is even more expensive.)Michael F. Martinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15279501532684851571noreply@blogger.com