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Video Leadership Seminars: Winning Legal Strategies for Managing Patent Portfolios With Allen Melser of Jacobson Holman PLLC
ExecSense, Oct 2006
The goal of this Video Leadership Seminar is to provide lawyers with successful proven strategies for managing client patent portfolios. The DVD is viewable on any computer or iPod (that supports video) and features 55 minutes of live video with Allen S. Melser of Jacobson Holman sharing his strategies on the best legal strategies for enforcing patent rights, licensing, litigation and more. The Video Leadership Seminar provides essential information for managing patent portfolios, including the steps to take and what to avoid, as well as an overall framework for how to proceed.
Topics covered in the Video Leadership Seminar include:
- How to effectively manage a patent portfolio
- The attorney’s role in aiding the client
- The biggest mistakes and how to avoid making them
- Clarifying areas of confusion
- How to profit from a patent portfolio
- Federal Patent Laws
- Obtaining and enforcing a patent
- Case Studies of specific situations and what you can learn from them
Questions answered in this Video Leadership Seminar include:
- If you were doing due diligence on a new client, in terms of judging their best course of action and any patent issues that could arise, what would you look at with respect to their company, competitors, industry, current laws and policies or anything else?
- What other external factors play an important role in helping you decide the best course of action for your client?
- What is the benefit of a properly managed patent portfolio to a company?
- Why is proper patent portfolio management so important to the overall success of a company?
- What factors should companies take into consideration when determining whether to keep or drop a patent from the portfolio?
- What are the consequences of a poorly managed patent portfolio to a company?
- How often should a company review the status of its patent portfolio? Why not more or less often?
- What is the most important aspect of successfully managing a patent portfolio?
- If you had 5 minutes to explain to a CEO the basics of reviewing a patent portfolio and determining how to best profit from the portfolio, how would you explain it?
- How would you break it into 5-7 steps to help them understand what needs to happen in order to make the portfolio the most profitable?
- How would proper management of a patent portfolio differ if it is global versus solely applicable within the United States?
- What are the 2-3 items most often debated when determining which patents to retain and which to let lapse?
- How do you judge the financial repercussions for your clients, when deciding on the best course of action to take?
- With respect to patents, what is your strategy to maximize returns on their patent investments in the long and short term?
- What are the most significant patent related laws that affect companies?
- How are these laws different internationally? Are there certain countries/regions that are more strict? How does this impact global patent portfolio management?
- How have patent laws changed over the last 5 years?
- How do you explain the financial exposure to your client in a situation such as this?
- What is the financial exposure your client has? What is the best and worst case scenarios?
- What factors of the patent most affect the financials – what are the pivotal points that will drive it one way or the other?
- Who are the key players in a patent portfolio management – can you give me at least 4 examples – (such as the C-level executives, investors, creditors, management team, etc.)
About Allen Melser:
Allen S. Melser has over thirty years of experience in the practice of intellectual property law, including technology licensing and international patent prosecution and enforcement. He assists domestic and foreign clients in designing and implementing intellectual property policies and managing their global patent, trademark and copyright portfolios. Mr. Melser specializes in the technical areas of software, multimedia, computers and peripherals, microelectronics, electronic commerce and telecommunications. He also has extensive experience in medical devices that are used in surgery and diagnostics. His broad interest in electronics, computer and multimedia arts and technology has enabled him to establish a diverse legal practice, which includes both the creative and legal aspects of intellectual property law. Mr. Melser has made presentations on intellectual property in the Far East and has appeared on numerous panels for The National Association of Broadcasters and The American Bar Association. He has also appeared on numerous radio shows and is Editor-in-Chief of an international journal of intellectual property law.
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