Eight Great Patent Strategies

As I mentioned in my last post, I recently finished reading Rembrandts in the Attic by Kevin G. Rivette and David Kline.  There were hundreds of ideas in the book about how to strategically manage your intellectual property assets for competitive advantage -far too many to write in a blog post.  But there were eight that I found particularly compelling.

Dusting Off Rembrandts in the Attic

I recently finished reading the book Rembrandts in the Attic by Kevin G. Rivette and David Kline.  I had purchased this book about 10 years ago with every intention of reading it.  But it sat on my bookshelf for nearly a decade until late this summer when Google acquired Motorola Mobility.  The real motivation for Google’s acquisition seemed to be a desire to control Motorola’s warchest of 17,000 patents.  Earlier in the year Google was unsuccessful in obtaining Nortel’s 6000 patents in an auction battle with Microsoft, Apple, RIM and others.  With the subject of intellectual property rights appearing daily in the news I decided it was time to dust off the Rembrandts in the Attic to learn more about patent strategies in the technology sector.