Background on the Role of Intellectual Property in Disruptive Innovation
Terms like Innovation, Entrepreneur, Innovator’s Dilemma, Disruptive Innovation, Innovator’s DNA, Big Idea, Think Outside the Box, Think Different, Startup, Blue Ocean Strategy & Value Innovation, Diffusion of Innovations, etc. are popular clichés used in advertising, MBA programs, management seminars, books, and airport newsstands.
For example: Staples supports your Big Idea with everything you need—except the Big Idea; LaQuinta Inns and Suites provides everything Jerry needs to get a good night’s sleep so he can think Outside the Box and come up with the new concept of Synergistic Integration; Apple Computer launched a highly successful comeback with the Think Different advertising campaign; and New York State has StartUpNY tax free zones to nurture Innovation, Ambition, and Bold Ideas for Startups. Along the same lines, Kim and Mauborgne coined the phrase, Blue Ocean Strategy, for their book.
Everyone is looking for the Next Big Thing. As to where new ideas come from, it was once thought that they had to come in a flash of genius. Dyer, Gregersen, and Christensen found that only about 15% of senior executives have what they call The Innovator’s DNA. Rogers presents a theory of Diffusion of Innovations which identifies those first 2.5% of Outside the Box thinkers as the Innovator adapter category.
We all know about the successful inventions and market swings in hindsight, but the trick is to recognize them at the outset and be in the Innovator adapter category—which isn’t easy. With all that has been written about the merits of innovation, one would think that good ideas would be scooped up immediately, but Howard Aiken had some realistic advice for innovators. The pages of the U.S. Patents Calendar are filled with truly Disruptive Innovation, Blue Ocean, inventions that went unrecognized for years, e.g., inventors like Dr. John Gorrie, Hedy Lamarr, Mary Anderson, etc., who were too far ahead of their times.
What We Are Offering
This brings us to where we may be of some help to that small group of Innovators that are looking for, and have the knack to recognize the opportunities of, something outside three sigma, i.e., Disruptive technologies.
Using the same clichés, we are offering to the Innovator adapters looking for new products and services, academic and industrial researchers looking for new and un-crowded areas of research, government agencies and industrial trade groups looking to advance safety and the state-of-the-art, software developers looking for their own project, as well as brokers and non-practicing entities looking for licensing opportunities; six families of recently issued or pending intellectual property which fall into the Blue Ocean category. These six families fall roughly into three categories—three in metrology, one in optics, and two in emergency communications. See the Home tab for a listing and link to the full documents.
We are not claiming these patents are in the same Disruptive category as the artificial production of ice in 1851, however, we submit that our intellectual property for: non-destructively testing the structural integrity of a nuclear containment building, dynamically testing a laser tracker in the field, acoustically locating a septic tank, designing optics to correct for dispersion of amplitude modulated light, integrating voice and data in large-scale emergency communications, and providing personal through-the-earth communications for every coal miner, falls in the Disruptive category.
For a better perspective of the relationships of the inventions to the conventional sustaining technologies, see the patents and non-patent literature cited on the front pages of the patents and the “Interesting Links” tab above. A download of the cited non-patent literature from the USPTO Image File Wrapper (not available in Public PAIR) is available on request.
What’s In It For You
Since these ideas are new, it is axiomatic that none of them are fully mature. Each will require additional development, i.e., there isn’t a get-rich-quick or franchise business among the lot. Moreover, they are all fairly technical in nature. Most will require a team of managers, marketeers, and hardware and software engineers to bring to fruition. However, the ‘334 patent in the second family and the ‘828 patent in the fourth family are drawn to software development which could be written by individuals or small teams in a dorm or garage.
However, for six or seven Entrepreneurial Innovators looking for a challenge to get in on the ground floor of something different and advance the art beyond these initial patent disclosures (there is a lot of patentable subject matter left on the table), this may be an opportunity worth investing the time to research—or maybe not. Time will tell.
At this time, we are issuing nonexclusive licenses for each of the six individual families of patents. These include terms for the life of the patents and limited term licenses for academic research grant proposals and particular projects or demonstrations. Each of the six families, along with the issued nonexclusive licenses, are also being offered for sale as a package including all divisional, continuations, continuation-in-part, and reissue applications claiming priority to any of the patents in the family. We are also open to proposals for a limited term nonexclusive license with an option to buy the family at the end of the term.
Please contact Gini for details or proposals.
Terms like Innovation, Entrepreneur, Innovator’s Dilemma, Disruptive Innovation, Innovator’s DNA, Big Idea, Think Outside the Box, Think Different, Startup, Blue Ocean Strategy & Value Innovation, Diffusion of Innovations, etc. are popular clichés used in advertising, MBA programs, management seminars, books, and airport newsstands.
For example: Staples supports your Big Idea with everything you need—except the Big Idea; LaQuinta Inns and Suites provides everything Jerry needs to get a good night’s sleep so he can think Outside the Box and come up with the new concept of Synergistic Integration; Apple Computer launched a highly successful comeback with the Think Different advertising campaign; and New York State has StartUpNY tax free zones to nurture Innovation, Ambition, and Bold Ideas for Startups. Along the same lines, Kim and Mauborgne coined the phrase, Blue Ocean Strategy, for their book.
Everyone is looking for the Next Big Thing. As to where new ideas come from, it was once thought that they had to come in a flash of genius. Dyer, Gregersen, and Christensen found that only about 15% of senior executives have what they call The Innovator’s DNA. Rogers presents a theory of Diffusion of Innovations which identifies those first 2.5% of Outside the Box thinkers as the Innovator adapter category.
We all know about the successful inventions and market swings in hindsight, but the trick is to recognize them at the outset and be in the Innovator adapter category—which isn’t easy. With all that has been written about the merits of innovation, one would think that good ideas would be scooped up immediately, but Howard Aiken had some realistic advice for innovators. The pages of the U.S. Patents Calendar are filled with truly Disruptive Innovation, Blue Ocean, inventions that went unrecognized for years, e.g., inventors like Dr. John Gorrie, Hedy Lamarr, Mary Anderson, etc., who were too far ahead of their times.
What We Are Offering
This brings us to where we may be of some help to that small group of Innovators that are looking for, and have the knack to recognize the opportunities of, something outside three sigma, i.e., Disruptive technologies.
Using the same clichés, we are offering to the Innovator adapters looking for new products and services, academic and industrial researchers looking for new and un-crowded areas of research, government agencies and industrial trade groups looking to advance safety and the state-of-the-art, software developers looking for their own project, as well as brokers and non-practicing entities looking for licensing opportunities; six families of recently issued or pending intellectual property which fall into the Blue Ocean category. These six families fall roughly into three categories—three in metrology, one in optics, and two in emergency communications. See the Home tab for a listing and link to the full documents.
We are not claiming these patents are in the same Disruptive category as the artificial production of ice in 1851, however, we submit that our intellectual property for: non-destructively testing the structural integrity of a nuclear containment building, dynamically testing a laser tracker in the field, acoustically locating a septic tank, designing optics to correct for dispersion of amplitude modulated light, integrating voice and data in large-scale emergency communications, and providing personal through-the-earth communications for every coal miner, falls in the Disruptive category.
For a better perspective of the relationships of the inventions to the conventional sustaining technologies, see the patents and non-patent literature cited on the front pages of the patents and the “Interesting Links” tab above. A download of the cited non-patent literature from the USPTO Image File Wrapper (not available in Public PAIR) is available on request.
What’s In It For You
Since these ideas are new, it is axiomatic that none of them are fully mature. Each will require additional development, i.e., there isn’t a get-rich-quick or franchise business among the lot. Moreover, they are all fairly technical in nature. Most will require a team of managers, marketeers, and hardware and software engineers to bring to fruition. However, the ‘334 patent in the second family and the ‘828 patent in the fourth family are drawn to software development which could be written by individuals or small teams in a dorm or garage.
However, for six or seven Entrepreneurial Innovators looking for a challenge to get in on the ground floor of something different and advance the art beyond these initial patent disclosures (there is a lot of patentable subject matter left on the table), this may be an opportunity worth investing the time to research—or maybe not. Time will tell.
At this time, we are issuing nonexclusive licenses for each of the six individual families of patents. These include terms for the life of the patents and limited term licenses for academic research grant proposals and particular projects or demonstrations. Each of the six families, along with the issued nonexclusive licenses, are also being offered for sale as a package including all divisional, continuations, continuation-in-part, and reissue applications claiming priority to any of the patents in the family. We are also open to proposals for a limited term nonexclusive license with an option to buy the family at the end of the term.
Please contact Gini for details or proposals.