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We serve start-ups and mid-size firms with in-house patent management services to get your IP in order. Start-ups often find they have periods of acute need for in-house patent management. During these periods, PatentCrafters fills the void with In-House IP Portfolio Management Services. Our experience and specialized skills includes:

  • Identifying and managing outside patent counsel
  • Establishing standards for your invention disclosures to increase the quality of your patent applications while reducing the cost of outside counsel
  • Establishing internal processes to keep the workflow managable
  • Coordinating drawings into a drawing library
  • Double docketing bar dates and other dates so your inventors will not have to manage patent-related work in crisis mode
  • Architecting and populating a SharePoint site for your firm's IP Portfolio
  • Preparing IP Portfolio reports for and presenting to investors
  • Managing the outside counsel selection and ongoing evaluation process

 

  
 
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Patent Crafters is a team of experienced professionals. Periodically we showcase the experience and credentials of a team member by providing an introduction and bio in the space below.

Introduction of Richard Bridgeman, Patent Agent Reg. # 57,773

Bio — Richard is a Patent Agent, registered to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office. He has been working in the field of software and semiconductors since 1980, and more specifically has concentrated in the field of networking software and semiconductors since 1999. He was an executive at networking firm iReady Corporation prior to iReady's acquisition by nVidia. Richard's prior engineering disciplines have included process control software (Rockwell Graphic Systems), embedded microcontroller software (video game maker Williams Electronics), ECL and CMOS chip design (DoD VHSIC) digital signal processor architecture (General Motors Hughes Electronics), and Electronic Computer Aided Design (Cadence Design Systems).

Education and Publications — Richard earned a BSEE from University of Illinois, and in addition to his engineering experience, he has authored many invention disclosures and technical papers, and holds patent applications himself.

International Lecture — Richard's international experience incudes four-years of expatriate service, living and working in Tokyo Japan. He has accumulated over one million flyer miles during the course of his twenty-some years of business travel and lectures worldwide. Although patent practice consumes most of Richard's time, he continues to lecture several times a year.