Should I Stay or Should I Go Now? Crossroads at the Negotiating Table
Negotiations can be a long and frustrating process, which can be made more efficient by using various tools, processes, and procedures. Being able to know when to begin and end the process, and especially knowing when to walk away from the table, is part of the...
Dr. Zekzer’s Advice to Inventors and Entrepreneurs: What Investors Want to See In your Pitch
Dr. Zekzer’s Advice to Inventors and Entrepreneurs: What Investors Want to See In your Pitch Dr. Dan Zekzer, M.D. has a long expertise in drug development and technology evaluator for Big Pharma and investors, as well as assisting emerging companies and technologies...
ANTIBODIES AND PATENTS: A LOCK AND A KEY, OR A KEYCHAIN FULL OF KEYS? (WITH COMMENTS ON THE CARROT AND THE STICK OF THE PATENT SYSTEM)
ANTIBODIES AND PATENTS: A LOCK AND A KEY, OR A KEYCHAIN FULL OF KEYS? (WITH COMMENTS ON THE CARROT AND THE STICK OF THE PATENT SYSTEM) As with many technologies, the standards for patentability for antibodies has evolved over time. The length of the stick...
Don’t Forget The Copyright For Protecting Technology
Copyrights are seemingly simple and clear rights and are provided under the U.S. Constitution at Article I, section 8, clause 8. However, as time and technology pass, the subject matter and scope of protection of copyrights has evolved, and as a result copyrights are...
Efficiencies In Decision Making Processes
In driver’s education, so long in a Washington DC suburb in Virginia, we were taught the IPDE Method to make good decisions quickly under conditions of calm, stress, and emergency. The instructor noted that several alumni over the years had indicated at homecoming...
Making Goals and Making Them SMART
You are at point A and want to get to point B. Is the distance too far, too many barriers in the way, a wish without a plan? Effective goal setting can help with breaking a path into steps, and help in taking that first elusive step. After all, each journey, no...
Dr. Miller’s Plan for Entrepreneurs, The “Five P’s”
Dr. Miller has assisted many an entrepreneur, investor, and technology during his illustrious career as medical doctor, analyst, trader, investor, CEO, and so on and so forth beyond my memory. Dr. Miller provided San Diego startups with a simple 4 point distillate of...
“Engage Brain Before Mouth”
-Brig. Gen. Raymond C. Preston, Jr., USAF (Retired) aka “Dear Olde Dad” When can you begin your marketing, advertising, and perhaps brag about your efforts as to new technologies and other protectable endeavors progress? Simply put, after initial filings are made for...