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WDC Patents, LLC provides a range of services aimed to optimize the control point strategy for a business. Control points include patents, trademarks, technical barriers, and other factors that provide a sustainable competitive advantage and enable future business opportunities such as licensing. Services include analyzing business needs, patent portfolio analysis, invention harvesting sessions, drafting patent applications, targeted innovation, and competitive landscape analysis.
Winthrop D. Childers...is a patent strategy expert with 24 years of experience in technology development and patent generation. His primary asset is an ability to secure and increase a technology company's intellectual property portfolio to prevent product knock-offs and to expand into new areas for licensing...Win's 24 years at Hewlett Packard include more than 10 years of experience focusing on Intellectual Property strategy including all the services offered by WDC Patents. Win is an inventor on 868 patent publications world wide including 154 issued U.S. patents. See Win's full resume below.
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My mission is to provide businesses with the greatest advantage they can obtain from control points such as patents and trademarks. My vision is to see our clients see results including sustainable competitive advantages for core products and to realize new revenue streams.
FULL RESUME:
PATENT STRATEGY EXPERT
Over twenty years of broad experience in technology development and patent generation. Primary assets include ability to value, secure and increase a technology company’s core patent portfolio to prevent product knock-offs and expand into new areas for licensing. HP’s most prolific inventor ’ named on 868 patent publications including 154 Issued U.S. Patents. Registered Patent Agent, 49,952.
Performed Analysis on Existing Patent Portfolios for >$5B/Year Business
- Created taxonomies for and organized >1000 patents.
- Taxonomy included technologies and product lines.
- Analyzed foreign market coverage for top products.
- Identified litigation opportunities and gaps in coverage.
- Estimated valuation of expanding U.S. and foreign coverage.
Generated Patent Applications to Expand Scope for Core Portfolios
- (Marketing) Identified product features most critical to customers.
- (Engineering) Identified product attributes most difficult to design around.
- Directed harvesting sessions to identify new innovations.
- Translated innovations into claims of highest strategic value.
- Wrote claims, cases, and/or worked with attorneys to file applications.
Generated Forward Looking Patents Based on "Targeted Innovation"
- Analyzed patent and competitive landscape for markets of interest.
- Identified key market and technology trends.
- Used analysis and trends to generate forward looking design concepts.
- Generated patent claims for future platforms.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
HEWLETT PACKARD COMPANY, San Diego, CA 1983-2007
Senior New Business Development Manager 2006-2007
- Constructed intellectual property strategies for new business development team.
- Led plans for patenting next generation "Smart Chip" system.
- Analyzed patent portfolios as part of overall competitive analysis.
- Defined market segmentation based on advantages of technology platforms.
- Constructed market revenue size models for $700B printing industry.
Senior Patent Strategist 2001-2006
- Core Consumer Ink Jet Cartridges-Identified key patent applications and claims for next generation consumable business (latest generation ink cartridges on market now). Nearly all of these patents have issued.
- Digital Projection Business-Led team that selected more than 400 innovations for patenting. Some issued patents now cover products of HP and competitors.
- Patent Landscape Analysis-Performed analysis for new business to understand technology, identify dominant patents and to determine where HP can compete.
- Forward Looking Patents-Primary inventor on patent applications that anticipated technology trends in smart chips, digital imaging, life sciences, fuel cells, and related software. Most have now issued.
- Patent Drafting-Wrote broad claims and broad specifications covering core, emerging, and new business inventions. Many have translated into issued patents.
Formed and directed a group that provides patent consulting for senior management, sets strategic directions for patent filing, manages invention disclosure review, and provides technical help to attorneys filing and litigating patents.
- Set strategic patent generation focuses for >$5B business.
- Hired and managed patent strategists and litigation manager.
- Managed improvements to disclosure review database system.
- Patent filing rate increased more than 100% during this time period.
- Inventor of smart chip system currently employed in four generations of printer cartridges. Includes 18 issued patents including some that have been enforced.
- Managed portfolio development for cartridges with expected peak revenue >$1B.
- Defined patent applications protecting the ink containers and cartridges including drafting claims, working with attorneys, and sometimes writing entire cases.
- Among top five inventors and contributors from concept to production phase.
- Listed inventor on 26 patents covering this product.
- Billion dollar class product.
- Designed assembly processes and specified manufacturing tooling.
- Contributed new ideas for next generation print-head designs.
- Invented new fluid barriers, electrical interconnects, and adhesive processes.
- Performed electronic packaging economics analysis for high performance printheads.
- Characterized photolithography, electroforming, and anodic bonding processes.
M.S., Physics-University of California, San Diego, CA (1983)
B.S., Mineral Engineering Physics-Colorado School of Mines
9th in Class of 470 (1982)
At the top of the page you will see two gentlemen. At left is Morris Fuller Benton and at right is his father Linn Boyd Benton. Morris Benton is my great-grandfather. He and his father were inventors in the printing industry. Morris was the most prolific designer of type fonts in history, designing over 200 type fonts. Linn invented the pantographic punchcutting machine in 1885 that altered the way letters were designed.