Larry M. Goldstein

PROVISIONAL PATENT APPLICATIONS: Use and Abuse is the completion of a four-book series on the topic of quality in patents and patent portfolios. This book describes a provisional patent application (PPA), shows how it differs from an ordinary non-provisional application (NPA), and explains how it can provide an early priority date for later applications and patents. There are few formal requirements for a PPA, which can be good in that it gives freedom to explain an invention in the inventor

The world is in the midst of a revolution in military affairs, caused bya shift from symmetric to asymmetric warthe digitization and globalization of information, andthe automation of war by robotics and cyber aggression.In this modern environment, a new weapon known as lawfare plays an essential role. Lawfare is the use, or more correctly the misuse, of law as a weapon of combat to embarrass Western countries, to constrain their armies, and in this way to achieve military objectives. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is the world's leading conflict on this new battlefront. Drawing on the personal stories of soldiers in the Israeli and US armies, as well as the filings at the International Criminal Court, A Table Against Mine Enemies: defines lawfare and related terms through personal stories;explains the four fundamental laws of war on which lawfare attacks are based;details Israel-based examples of lawfare in the separation barrier, the disputed territories, and flotilla attempts to break the blockade against importation of weapons to Gaza; andpresents scenarios for the future of war and of lawfare, based on advanced electronics, robotics, cyber attacks, and machine autonomy.Lawfare is in the news every week, and will continue to appear over the coming decades. A Table Against Mine Enemies provides the information essential to understanding this new and revolutionary weapon of war.

PATENT PORTFOLIOS is directed specifically to people who manage patent portfolios, or who advise others on the management of patent portfolios. The book answers three questions: 1. What is an excellent patent portfolio? 2. How is it possible to obtain an excellent patent portfolio? 3. What is the cost to obtain an excellent patent portfolio? Specific portfolios are presented as examples illustrating the principles of excellence. The book includes four chapters. -Chapter 1 presents the basic concepts of a "portfolio" as opposed to a single patent. Ten principles of high-quality patent portfolios are discussed, including, among others, corporate & patent strategies, geographic & time balance, criteria for measuring the success of a patent program, and placement of the patenting function within a company.-Chapter 2 discusses ways of creating an excellent patent portfolio. The chapter reviews in detail two major portfolio decisions (build or buy, and quality or quantity), and presents a model for an in-house patent program to create an excellent portfolio.-Chapter 3 discusses budgeting for investment in patents, including benchmarks for patent investing and the four most common methods used by companies to budget their investments in patent portfolios. These methods are Top Down Budgeting (focusing on costs), Bottom Up Budgeting (focusing on results), Competitive Budgeting (focusing on competition), and Hybrid Budgeting (a combination of the foregoing methods).-Chapter 4 is a Summary in Question & Answer format, with particular emphasis on Basic Characteristics of Excellent Portfolios, Managing the Portfolio, Budgeting for Patents, Technology Inflection Points, Patent Aggregation, and Patent Evaluation.This book completes a trilogy called "The Patent Quality Series," which includes the earlier books TRUE PATENT VALUE (excellence in individual patents), and LITIGATION-PROOF PATENTS (the most common mistakes that prevent patents from achieving their true excellence).

LITIGATION-PROOF PATENTS: Avoiding the Most Common Patent Mistakes explains the principles of excellent patents, presents the ten most common errors in patents, and details a step-by-step method for avoiding these common errors. Specific patents are analyzed and shown to commit or avoid the most common patent mistakes. The book includes four chapters. -First, a step-by-step process for writing outstanding patents that capture all the innovative points of an invention and that avoid the most common patent mistakes.-Second, principles of litigation-proof patents, including characteristics of good patent claims, Key Claim Terms, patent value, seminal patents, and tips for writing patent applications.-Third, the ten most common mistakes that appear frequently in patents, and that destroy both patent quality and patent value.-Fourth, five patents that illustrate the concept of "litigation-proof patents." These patents include the Hedy Lamarr frequency hopping patent from World War II, the patents for the board game Monopoly(R), and the "slide-to-unlock" mobile phone patent that Apple asserted against Samsung.LITIGATION-PROOF PATENTS is intended for anyone writing a patent who wants to achieve the highest-possible quality. It is intended for patent evaluators who want to understand whether or not the patents being reviewed suffer from value-destroying mistakes. It is intended for patent managers and heads of IP departments who are managing significant patent portfolios, and who want to understand the relative quality of their portfolios. LITIGATION-PROOF PATENTS is the second of three books the make up the Patent Quality Series. The first book in the series, TRUE PATENT VALUE: Defining Quality in Patents and Patent Portfolios, was published in 2013, and the third book in the series, PATENT PORTFOLIOS: Quality, Creation, and Cost, will be published soon.

Book DescriptionPublication Date: July 2013 - ISBN-10: 0989554104 - ISBN-13: 978-0989554107TRUE PATENT VALUE answers the questions,