This Aspatore legal title provides the fundamentals of the patent strategies that will protect your client's innovation.The field of patents is evolving once again, and this time it has emerged with a new unpredictability for software. In order to overcome these challenges, you will need to understand the fundamentals of the patent strategies that will protect your client's innovation. Developing a Patent Strategy provides an authoritative insider's perspective for overcoming the obstacles facing your clients today. This book contains insights on key tips for developing strategies driven by client business objectives and filing provisional patent applications.

Experienced partners from law firms across the nation give you best practices for assisting start-ups, established businesses, and international companies with portfolio development and overcoming challenges in a post-Alice marketplace. These top lawyers offer you specific advice on drafting claims, filing applications, utilizing provisional patents as an alternate form of IP protection, and considering settlement in patent validity challenges. The book also helps you navigate recent trends in the defense of patent cases, and outlines the impact of the Octane and Highmark cases on litigation. This work offers best practices for encouraging client cost-benefit analysis of the current marketplace and drafting their patents to evolve with their corporate goals.