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Trade Secrets: Loose Lips Can Sink Companies [Book Review]
Avancept -- Your company's chief technology officer quits in May to take a new job at a giant competitor as vice-president of research. You're disappointed but you can live with that. In September, the very best engineers working on your most promising new product...

Don’t Waste IP Assets
Avancept - Technology companies should use their Intellectual Property Assets as tools for increasing overall corporate profitability. There are, of course, a multitude of ways to employ these assets. But if IP Assets are not being used there’s almost no reason to go...

Evolving Patent Strategies
Avancept - "Do we really need all these patents?" is a question asked more and more often by business managers at technology companies. Businesses should reconsider and evaluate their intellectual property strategy with some frequency. Every intellectual property...

World War I – the Patented War
Avancept - World War I, which began 101 years ago this August, was the first industrialized war. Inventors, engineers, and financiers turned factories into giant machines for producing the weapons of war. As an industrialized process, many of these inventions were...