Refresh & Rejuvenate
Creations of the mind (inventions, literary/artistic works, designs, symbols, name/images)
What is IP?
License/sell IP, block competitors, enhance company value, safeguard product and brand
What is importance of protecting IP?
Trade shows, conventions, conferences, publications, whitepapers, customer meetings, PDRs
What are disclosure risk areas
Right to exclude others from making, using, and selling the invention
What is a patent?
Symbol, word, logo, or combination that identifies and distinguishes goods/services from the marketplace
What is a trademark?
Patents, Copyrights, Trademarks, and Trade Secrets
What are the four forms of IP?
IP Opportunities Database used to track differentiators, development meetings, patents, and FTOs
What is JIRA?
International Patent Bar, One Year U.S. Clock, Third Party Awareness
What is improper disclosure?
Utility and design
What are types of patents?
The meaning of the ® symbol vs TM symbol
What is registered trademark vs pending trademark?
DAILY DOUBLE: IR&D planning, design or gate reviews, product naming, anytime
What is when I should think about IP?
Can I enforce U.S. patent in another country?
NO.
Identify new technologies/changes as early as possible and calendar potential meetings with customer
What is best practice to avoid improper disclosure?
Defines scope of protection
What are claims?
The trademark for 'hook and loop attachment'
What is Velcro®?
Unique product or technology or what we are doing differently from the past
What are differentiators?
H&H does not utilize [insert claim element] in any current products.
What is Screening Rationale?
DAILY DOUBLE: The customer wants to engage Howard on a potential quote, purchase, or work order. What should Howard do?
Howard should reach out to the IP department and confirm provisional application has been filed.
Solutions to new problems or better solutions to old problems
What is a patentable idea?
Unauthorized use of and/or application for a trademark that weakens or harms famous mark
What is trademark dilution?
Query-based search to determine risk
What is Freedom-to-Operate (FTO)?
Over thirty years combined IP experience
What is our IP Team (Linda and Danny)!
What is prevent improper disclosure?
Foothold at the USPTO and how long is it good for?
What is a provisional patent application and one year?
Any valuable business information that gives an economic advantage and give two examples.
What is a trade secret, (Coca-Cola, KFC, WD-40, etc.)