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ARTICLE · 17 MAY 2024

"Economy Class" Patent Applications: Do They Provide Value? Here Is When And Why

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In one of my latest Clubhouse events (click here) I had the honor to interview Jackie Hutter again, and one of the topics that we have touched was "crappy patents", as opposed to "litigation-grade patents".

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In one of my latest Clubhouse events (click here) I had the honor to interview Jackie Hutter again, and one of the topics that we have touched was "crappy patents", as opposed to "litigation-grade patents".

This is where I am coming from: I have together with my team prosecuted about 18,000 patent applications in my lifetime. Many of those patent applications were clearly not "litigation-grade". But does this mean that these patent applications deserve the attribute "crappy"? I do not think so.

Here is why.

A Real Example: Patents As A "Scary Sword"

The following is a recent example from my own practice, and I have countless examples like that one:

An inventor contacts me, asking whether he can offer his latest development, an emulator of a certain type of computer that has been used in the last century, as a Software as a Service (SaaS) product in the USA. He has done some prior art searches and there are more than 100 granted US patents out there that

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