Patent drafting tips

Patent drafting tips

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Outline

Purpose for writing disclosures

Good Practice at IBM CRL

Key elements of a good disclosure

Tips for communicating with lawyer

An example

Purpose for writing disclosures

• Capitalize innovative ideas

# Ideas are cheap

• Protect key technology in our products

# There are so many competitors

• Establish authority in a field

#I truly know my products

• Develop patent assets

# What if my product do not sell

Good practice at IBM CRL

• Incentive

# Patent filing award & Platea award
# High impact patent award
# Patent asset award

• Patent Review Committee

# An attorney 
# reviewer with >2 platea
# Master inventor

Balance between projects and patent activities

Small meetings to cook ideas irrelevant to projects

Many many ideas are patentable

Ways to improve productivity

Brain storming on ideas which can expand or change a project

Collaborations are the key

Cross team idea discussion

An example

Tips to communicate with attorney

• Write as clear as possible

• Give as many examples as possible

• Clearly mark every elements on a figure/Table/Equation

• Carefully prepare search document (be professional and be clever)

• Highlight claim points (less is more)