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Can Innovations Be Created with Patent Guarantee?
Design for Patentability™ (DFP) is a powerful innovative design methodology that is based on a rational and disciplined process. It employs an efficient suite of tools and methods for improving existing products and technologies as well as for developing winning next-generation products. These approaches can also be used to develop the required functionality, reduce the cost of manufacturing processes, enabling the new and improved products to be brought to market with a very high probability of being patented.
Design for Patentability™ approaches secure satisfying the necessary criteria of patentability, make it possible to develop patent firewalls of independent and dependent claims. They also enable a possibility to circumvent competitive patents providing freedom to operate and, in most cases, IP protection of the alternative designs. Innovative hybridization with patentable outcome, identification of “white spots” for patenting are other areas where DFP has proved to be extremely powerful.
Who is DFP Intended For?
Design for Patentability™ is being successfully used by many world leading corporations – General Electric, Samsung, Hyundai Motor Company, ABB, Siemens, FIAT Group, Procter & Gamble, Unilever, POSCO, LG, Intel, and many others.
It is also a part of a number of engineering programs of the world best universities in Europe, Asia and Americas including MIT, Tufts University (USA), Tongji University (China), Technical University of Munich (Germany) and many others.
DFP programs of different certification levels conducted at Hyundai-Kia Global R&D Center in South Korea yielded hundreds of international patents with ROI of about 300 million US dollars. GE Global Research worldwide has internalized some DFP procedures to strengthen the patent applications that the company submits with the USA Patent Office.
Design for Patentability™ Institute conducts DFP certification training of Levels 1-3 for corporations and educational institutions as well as DFP project facilitation that has resulted in many hundreds of patented solutions in the USA, South Korea, India, Japan, China, Germany, Italy, Russia and many other countries.
Certification DFP Workshops enables the participants to master the DFP tools needed for competitive patent circumvention, boosting up the patentability criteria, performing innovative product hybridization resulting with patentable solutions.
Fundamentals
The most practical engineering applications
for patent circumventing and strengthening
The book introduces the fundamentals and major approaches of Design for Patentability® and is recommended for researchers, engineers, inventors, entrepreneurs, IP engineering specialists and anyone interested in developing patentable innovative solutions.
The content of the book is used in Master degree programs IP for Design of WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organization, a specialized UN agency), in a number of university engineering schools and R&D groups of large corporations as well as in start-ups and entrepreneurship centers.
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