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Monetizing Patents Through Non-Practicing Entities (NPE's)
Season 1
This episode is about non-practicing entities (NPE’s). Otherwise referred to as patent licensing companies, patent assertion entities (PAE’s) or pate…
5 years, 10 months ago
Blocking Illegal Imports Through the International Trade Commission (ITC)
Season 1
David Smith and attorney Tom Fasone explain how the International Trade Commission (ITC) is a federal agency tasked with protecting American domestic…
5 years, 10 months ago
Selling Your Patent
Season 1
This episode explains why companies buy patents, what they're looking for in a patent, what patents are most sellable, and what prices patents collec…
5 years, 10 months ago
Venue–Where to File Suit Against Companies Infringing your Patents?
Season 1
David Smith and Tom Fasone discuss the reasons why the boom time for patent lawsuits in Marshall and other towns in Eastern Texas has ended, and why …
5 years, 10 months ago
Patenting by Numbers
Season 1
Understand the patent marketplace through looking at the numbers. For example, 98.5% of patents are never asserted. This translates to $60bn spent on…
5 years, 10 months ago
Why Startup Valuation is Not Startup Valuation
Season 1
Because venture capital investors are not buying common stock, they get control over the startup ventures they invest in, and they get a disproportio…
5 years, 10 months ago
Preferred Pizza Toppings
Season 1
This episode explains how venture capital investors get preferred stock, and founders get common stock. Preferential toppings provided to investors i…
5 years, 10 months ago
Patent Trolls, Corporate Lobbying & Misleading the American Public
Season 1
How large corporate interests have lobbied Washington, misled the American public and seriously damaged the US patent system at the expense of invent…
5 years, 10 months ago
Forming the Startup Company and Partnering with Co-Founders
Season 1
David Smith, president of Silicon Valley Business School, talks to Mark Cameron White, Harvard-educated lawyer who founded and financed hundreds of S…
5 years, 10 months ago
Interview with Paul Kallmes, Entrepreneurship and Angel Investment Expert at the Vault, San Francisco
Season 1
Paul Kallmes discusses entrepreneurship, international expansion, managing risk, pitching investors, raising finance from venture capital investors, …
5 years, 10 months ago