Bret Tingey

is a patent attorney at Harrity & Harrity, LLP. Bret’s practice is focused on patent preparation and prosecution for domestic and foreign applications in electrical, mechanical, and medical technology fields. More specifically, Bret’s experience includes working with telecommunication standards, RF filters, semiconductor chips, image editing software, software productivity tools, power efficiency software, VR and AR imaging software and hardware, batteries, solar energy systems, medical devices, carbon nanotube technologies, and acoustics. Along with obtaining a degree in applied physics, Bret enjoyed taking business classes before law school, which has helped drive his interest in finding efficiencies for the business side of patents.

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Data-Driven Decision Making for Patent Portfolio Managers

A patent portfolio can be one of the greatest assets that a company owns. A patent portfolio may boost a company’s valuation for a stock offering or a sale, may be licensed for recurring revenue, may be sold to raise cash, or may be enforced to seek monetary damages or to exclude competitors from the market. However, growing a patent portfolio can be expensive. For this reason, many companies hire a portfolio manager to balance the value and expense of growing and maintaining the patent portfolio. A portfolio manager may be responsible for making decisions including a total target number of patent filings, target numbers of patent filings for different technology areas of the company, patent firms to use for filing and prosecuting patent applications, or how to manage costs per issued patent. The portfolio manager can improve the decision-making process by using data-driven decision making. This article shows some examples of data-driven decision making.

July 23, 2020

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