Himanshu S. Amin
Managing Partner
Cleveland
BS Electrical Engineering · USPTO reg.
Strategic Patent Ideation
Patent strategy should not begin after an invention has already been made.
For sophisticated technology companies, the greater opportunity is to identify patentable concepts before they become obvious priorities — while product roadmaps, platform architectures and competitive positions are still being shaped.
Himanshu Amin leads the firm's executive-level patent ideation initiatives for Fortune 50 and Fortune 500 companies. With a team of attorneys and patent agents, he works with senior executives, business leaders, engineers, scientists and product teams to develop strategically significant inventions and convert them into durable patent positions.
These are not conventional invention-harvesting sessions. The work begins with the business: where the company is investing, how its technology is evolving, where competitors are likely to move and which capabilities may become commercially important over the next several years. From there, the team works with the company's technical and business teams to develop patentable concepts around future product generations, alternative system architectures, platform extensions, implementation strategies, competitive design-arounds and emerging technologies.
A portfolio with purpose
The objective is not simply more patents. It is a portfolio with purpose.
A well-designed ideation program can help a company protect technology still on the roadmap, create strategic positions around adjacent markets, anticipate competitive alternatives and establish intellectual property rights before the commercial significance of an innovation is fully apparent.
From strategy to invention
Patent ideation engagements may include executive strategy sessions, technical workshops and ongoing portfolio-development programs.
Where business, technology and patent strategy meet
The team combines backgrounds in electrical engineering, computer engineering, industrial and systems engineering, chemistry and business with decades of experience developing and prosecuting patents in sophisticated technologies. That combination allows the discussion to move fluidly between business objectives, technical architecture and patent strategy.
For companies competing at the frontier of technology, patent ideation transforms the patent function from a record of past innovation into a tool for shaping future competitive position.
Team
8 professionals in Strategic Patent Ideation
Gregory Turocy
Managing Partner
Cleveland
MS Organic Chemistry · USPTO reg.
Thomas E. Watson
Managing Partner
Seattle
BS Electrical Engineering · USPTO reg.
Deidra Ritcherson
Partner
Atlanta
BS Electrical Engineering · USPTO reg.
Alexander H. Amin
Associate
Atlanta
Jordan Scharf
Associate
Cleveland
BS Industrial & Systems Engineering · USPTO reg.
Nilesh S. Amin
Patent Agent
Ft. Lauderdale
BS Computer Software/Hardware Engineering · USPTO reg.
Brian Steed
Patent Agent
Columbus
BS Electrical Engineering · USPTO reg.