Rivette and Kline: Surviving a War With Patents

[James Love <love@cptech.org>]

Upside opinion article, has 8 pages on patents, ending
with "Building an effective patent strategy.

http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/opinion/story?id=382a24f90

Surviving a War With Patents
              December 10, 1999
              by Kevin G. Rivette and David Kline
               
              Patents have never been glamorous, but savvy 
executives are learning their value, and
with good reason--patent licensing revenues 
jumped from $15 billion in 1990 to more
than $100 billion in just eight years. That's 
incentive enough for companies to carefully
map their existing patents and strategize future 
efforts. But patents can be a
double-edged sword, bringing wealth to those who 
carefully mine the intellectual
property within their companies while visiting 
disaster upon those who blithely infringe
upon the work of others. 


-- 
James Love / Director, Consumer Project on Technology
http://www.cptech.org / love@cptech.org
P.O. Box 19367, Washington, DC 20036
voice 202.387.8030 / fax 202.234.5176