1. Home
  2. Innovations
  3. Management and innovation engineering
  4. Managing an embarrassing patent

  5. What defensive measures do you have at your disposal to deal with a troublesome patent?

Practical sheet | REF: FIC1620 V1

Managing an embarrassing patent

Author: Joaquim LI

Publication date: January 10, 2022 | Lire en français

You do not have access to this resource.
Click here to request your free trial access!

Already subscribed? Log in!

Automatically translated using artificial intelligence technology (Note that only the original version is binding) > find out more.

    A  |  A

    2. What defensive measures do you have at your disposal to deal with a troublesome patent?

    Here we refer to defensive measures as those by which we can manage an interfering patent without having to interact with the owner of the interfering patent.

    These are measures that are often best considered at a fairly early stage in the exploitation of a technology, i.e. before too much investment has been made in a path that could turn out to be blocked by a patent.

    2.1 Identify potentially troublesome patents by maintaining a patent watch and conducting freedom-to-operate studies

    A prerequisite for defensive measures is to identify potentially troublesome patents as early as possible.

    These patents can be identified either by maintaining a patent watch, which involves monitoring the granting process of...

    You do not have access to this resource.

    Exclusive to subscribers. 97% yet to be discovered!

    You do not have access to this resource.
    Click here to request your free trial access!

    Already subscribed? Log in!

    The Ultimate Scientific and Technical Reference

    A Comprehensive Knowledge Base, with over 1,200 authors and 100 scientific advisors
    + More than 10,000 articles and 1,000 how-to sheets, over 800 new or updated articles every year
    From design to prototyping, right through to industrialization, the reference for securing the development of your industrial projects

    This article is included in

    Management and innovation engineering

    This offer includes:

    Knowledge Base

    Updated and enriched with articles validated by our scientific committees

    Services

    A set of exclusive tools to complement the resources

    Practical Path

    Operational and didactic, to guarantee the acquisition of transversal skills

    Doc & Quiz

    Interactive articles with quizzes, for constructive reading

    Subscribe now!

    Ongoing reading
    What defensive measures do you have at your disposal to deal with a troublesome patent?
    Outline