With these Pro Tips and Tricks you will be able to take your innovation to the next level, greatly reduce your patent costs, and learn the secrets to negotiating intellectual property agreements. Learn the Tips and Tricks that the pros are afraid to tell you. Pro Tips and Tricks teaches you how to get the most out of your patents or innovation program using previously undisclosed industry secrets! Designed for individual inventors to professional intellectual property managers, Pro Tips and Tricks reveals the secrets to help you turbocharge your results. Pro Tips and Tricks is written by an industry insider with over 20 years of patent and intellectual property experience from individual inventor to board rooms. To remain anonymous our insider adopted the nom de plume Archer Tope to avoid industry push back for divulging these previously undisclosed insider secrets. With Over 200 Pro Tips - You will learn to: - Uncover the Innovation Immune System lurking in your company and learn strategies to cure it. - Save money and increase protection using the secret Ombudsman Patent Strategy. - Learn about using a Porcelain Estimate to value you idea. - Get the best examiner assigned to your patent application by Examiner Shopping. - Avoid Patent Aerobics. - Identify and work with different Types of Inventors - Stealth, paperhangers, Busy Bee, etc. - Recognize and correct a Rodeo Innovation program. - Find and eliminate Innovation Sponges in your organization. - Turbocharge your negotiations using Pro Tricks - handling werewolves, getting incrementally pregnant, they smell it on you, dealing with bazaar mentality, etc. - Discover why more companies are relying on Trade Secrets and learn Tricks for how to protect your right to use your ideas - Hiding in plain sight, Frankenstein Claims, Innovation Misdirection, etc. - Train your staff to actually keep a Trade Secret. - Develop an Innovation Competitive Intelligence program. - Much, much more! About the Author My name is Archer Tope - this is a pseudonym or Nom de Plume if you prefer. The reason for the use of this subterfuge is to protect my true identity while I continue to work in the innovation and intellectual property field. The tips and tricks highlighted in this book can make existing clients nervous or they might even be used against me in negotiations or litigations. Please forgive me for not revealing my true identity. I have been involved in or around innovation for at least 20 years. I have over 70 patents to my name. Many of my patents have been sold or used to develop products and companies which were sold to others. One of my first inventions I developed and rolled out was worth an estimated $100M. I have been involved with startups which have had public exits, got caught in stock market crashes, acted as an expert witness in a patent litigation, sold patent portfolios, helped structure new innovation programs, negotiated innumerable contracts, run development teams, and sued a Fortune 50 company for patent infringement. My view of the innovation landscape may be broad, however, I have also dealt in the details. While explaining how to view intellectual property, set up an innovation group, or manage a development team, I often hear you should write a book. I have stayed away from recording my thoughts about innovations up to now to avoid the negative ramifications.
