CITATION

Nissing, Nicholas. Patents and Strategic Inventing: The Corporate Inventor's Guide to Creating Sustainable Competitive Advantage. US: McGraw-Hill, 2012.

Patents and Strategic Inventing: The Corporate Inventor's Guide to Creating Sustainable Competitive Advantage

Published:  September 2012

eISBN: 9780071783873 0071783873 | ISBN: 9780071783866
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Part 1 Key Concepts
  • Chapter 1 Intellectual Property: The Real Estate of Your Mind
  • Chapter 2 What You Need to Know About Patentability and Inventorship
  • Chapter 3 Claims and Your Freedom to Operate
  • Chapter 4 A Simplifiedd View of the Patenting Process
  • Chapter 5 The Corporate Inventor’s Role
  • Chapter 6 Practical Tools for Patent Searching Online
  • Chapter 7 The Joy of Reading Patents
  • Chapter 8 The Impact of the 2011 America Invents Act
  • Chapter 9 Working with your Attorney: Nine Steps to a Better Utility Patent
  • Part 2 Patent Strategy
  • Chapter 10 Key Elements of a Patent Strategy
  • Chapter 11 Patent Landscapes: Dividing Up the Pie
  • Chapter 12 Visualizing Patent Space
  • Chapter 13 Not All Claims Are Created Equal
  • Chapter 14 Eight Portfolio Strategy Models
  • Chapter 15 Portfolio Building: A Business Perspective
  • Chapter 16 Enhancing Product Value Through Life-Cycle Management
  • Chapter 17 Intellectual Property as a Currency of Collaboration
  • Part 3 Strategic Inventing
  • Chapter 18 The Cart or the Horse? An Introduction to Strategic Inventing
  • Chapter 19 Competitive Advantage and the Magic of Differentiation
  • Chapter 20 Intellectual Property and Disruptive Innovation: Strategies, Tactics, and Lessons from China
  • Chapter 21 What Makes a Great Invention?
  • Chapter 22 Strategic Inventing Techniques
  • Chapter 23 Using TRIZ for Strategic Inventing
  • Chapter 24 Implementing a Patent Strategy at the Project Level
  • Epilogue
  • Notes
  • Index