Editor | On 23, Apr 2007

Katie Barry

Sergei Ikovenko is the leader of this session, discussing the importance of patents and patent strategies, including:

• Competitive patent circumvention by trimming: eliminate a component but keep useful functions
  
• Competitive patent circumvention by history estoppel research: if estoppel exists, the doctrine of equivalence does not apply; if it does exist then use competitive patent circumvention by trimming
  
• Antidote: try to break your own patent and file new/continuation/second generation patents
  
• Picket fence: develop a series of incremental innovations (with corresponding patents) to get around a core technology
  
• Toll gate: jump past the current development to the next generation (long-term strategy)

It’s lunchtime in Louisville. Time to meet more TRIZ enthusiasts!