Strategic Patent Planning For Software Companies

Eric L. Stasik is director of Patent08 a consulting firm based in Stockholm, Sweden offering patent engineering, mining, and brokering services. Eric provides consulting services to small- and medium-sized businesses who want to create strong new patent positions and maximize the leverage available from their existing portfolio. From 1992-2002, Eric worked with patent strategy in various capacities for the Swedish telecommunications giant, LM Ericsson. Beginning as senior patent engineer in the US mobile phone division in 1992, he moved to Sweden in 1995 where he became manager of international IPR activities within the GSM division of Ericsson Radio Systems until 2000 when the division was merged with other operations. In his final position, as corporate director of IPR and licensing at Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson, Eric was one of several directors responsible for creating and executing Ericsson’s corporate patenting and licensing strategies. Prior to joining Ericsson and succumbing to the lure of patents, Eric enjoyed a successful career as a designer of microwave and radio frequency communications components. From 1987 until 1991, he was principal engineer for Microwave Resources, Inc. (MRI) a developer and manufacturer of specialized microwave components which he co-founded. Eric designed, manufactured, and built (by hand) microwave couplers, adapters, switches, filters, detectors, and phase shifters in dispersive transmission media from 1000 MHz up to 94 GHz. The author has particular expertise in the black art of microwave ferrite design and exceptionally strong skills in circuit design: he was responsible for the design and manufacture of all of MRI’s electronic drivers. Prior to starting out on his own, Eric was senior microwave design engineer between 1985 and 1987 for Electromagnetic Sciences, Inc. (EMS) then a highly specialized manufacturer of space flight communications hardware headquartered in a suburb of Atlanta, Georgia USA. At EMS, the author became responsible for the research and design of experimental high-power broadband microwave ferrite switches. From 1984 and 1985, Eric was employed by RCA Missile and Surface Radar in Moorestown, New Jersey USA where he wrote software for microwave testing of phased-array beamforming assemblies. Eric graduated with a BSEE from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1984 and has since written a number of articles and authored several commercial programs relating to the computer-aided design of microwave components, including a widely used program for the design of coaxial low-pass filters. After acquiring an MSEE from Georgia Tech in 1992, Eric became a registered US Patent Agent and began a career working with patents and intellectual property. This is his first book. Eric Stasik makes his home in Stockholm, Sweden and can be reached most suitably via e-mail: eric.stasik@telia.com or info@patent08.comStasik, Eric is the author of 'Strategic Patent Planning For Software Companies', published 2004 under ISBN 9781932813326 and ISBN 1932813322.