8 Strategic Patent Project Management

The greatest truths are the simplest.

For most of this book, we have focused on the idea of a single patent for a product and a single claim in the patent. The reason was to keep it simple. In the previous chapter we discussed extending the single patent to multiple jurisdictions.

In the real world, however, most patents include numerous claims and important products and projects are often protected by more than one patent in the U.S. and abroad.