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

EPILOGUE

The foregoing chapters probably covered some topics either more or less extensively than you had hoped. Unfortunately, each technology area often has unique approaches to patent strategy, so a general book of this type cannot cover every industry in great detail without becoming a weighty tome. On the other hand, the concepts, tools, techniques, and frameworks that we’ve discussed will provide a solid foundation for creating a sustainable competitive advantage through patent strategy in any industry, increasing the value of individual inventions as well as portfolios of intellectual property.

Here’s a brief summary of highlights from the topics we’ve discussed:

• Learning the basic terminology and key elements of the patenting process ...