Comments on: Write a good paper or file a good patent? Or both? http://windowsil.org/2008/02/07/write-a-good-paper-or-file-a-good-patent-or-both/ Your window into the Wireless Systems Innovation Laboratory Sun, 27 May 2012 13:11:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.3 by: Insoo Hwang http://windowsil.org/2008/02/07/write-a-good-paper-or-file-a-good-patent-or-both/#comment-30032 Fri, 08 Feb 2008 00:00:53 +0000 http://windowsil.org/2008/02/07/write-a-good-paper-or-file-a-good-patent-or-both/#comment-30032 Professor, I think you pointed out the biggest problem when filing a patent. Inventors (like us) first explain about the invention to a legal counsel first, then lawyers make a draft of claims, and finally inventors revise them. But lawyers are not knowledgeable on the technology like us, whereas we are unfamiliar with making broad claims without infringing existing claims. I think this is why some novel papers in academia weren't filed as patents, and consequently didn't make huge money. I think a good system engineer should be able to write a good paper and file a good patent. Usually the leader of standard team in a company knows both very well. But as a grad student, to do both is really hard.. therefore it's cool if there's a patent lawyer in WNCG to help us filing our ideas as patents. Professor, I think you pointed out the biggest problem when filing a patent. Inventors (like us) first explain about the invention to a legal counsel first, then lawyers make a draft of claims, and finally inventors revise them. But lawyers are not knowledgeable on the technology like us, whereas we are unfamiliar with making broad claims without infringing existing claims. I think this is why some novel papers in academia weren’t filed as patents, and consequently didn’t make huge money.

I think a good system engineer should be able to write a good paper and file a good patent. Usually the leader of standard team in a company knows both very well. But as a grad student, to do both is really hard.. therefore it’s cool if there’s a patent lawyer in WNCG to help us filing our ideas as patents.

]]> by: Robert Heath http://windowsil.org/2008/02/07/write-a-good-paper-or-file-a-good-patent-or-both/#comment-30002 Thu, 07 Feb 2008 17:09:16 +0000 http://windowsil.org/2008/02/07/write-a-good-paper-or-file-a-good-patent-or-both/#comment-30002 Insoo, interesting article. One question I have is who writes the claims? Most of the patents I have co-invented, a legal counsel formulated the claims and we revised them. Are you advocating for the inventors to write the claims? Or are you advocating for good lawyers to write the claims? I feel that engineers may have a hard time making really broad claims while lawyers may not understand the technology enough to write those claims. Insoo, interesting article. One question I have is who writes the claims? Most of the patents I have co-invented, a legal counsel formulated the claims and we revised them. Are you advocating for the inventors to write the claims? Or are you advocating for good lawyers to write the claims? I feel that engineers may have a hard time making really broad claims while lawyers may not understand the technology enough to write those claims.

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