Ten Meridian Mistakes - Or Are In That Place More?

This popped upward inwards Silicon Valley North: a listing of the superlative 10 close mutual intellectual holding rights mistakes during enterprise working capital missive of the alphabet due diligence, past times Dennis Fernandez too Neal Sainani of at Fernandez & Associates LLP.

1. Too tardily to starting fourth dimension filing domestic too international patent applications.

2. Too narrow legal range of claiming patentable inventions.

3. Filing a patent also soon.

4. Relying alone on copyrights for software protection.

5. Inadvertently tainting intellectual holding rights amongst 3rd political party co-ownership rights.

Dennis Fernandez
6. Communication amongst non-lawyer agents which is unprotected past times lawyer-client privilege.

7. Underestimating the importance of merchandise secrets too confidentiality.

8. Overlooking legitimate chance to gear upward offshore licensing revenue enhancement shelters.

9. Responding tardily to Office actions.

10. Over/under-spending on legal fees to prosecute patent applications.

-- who loves lists -- wonders if his readers agree. There are at to the lowest degree a duo of omissions: filing also early on is mentioned, merely non filing also late. Merpel adds, there's no signal inwards filing at all if you lot can't afford the toll of defending your patent or using it against others.

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