Any company that files patents as part of its intellectual property strategy should be actively thinking about the end use of those assets. For business leverage, a patent holder must be able to ...

Companies and inventors often will engage in reverse engineering to analyze an existing product for the purpose of determining how the product works. The ultimate goal is usually to make a competing ...

Recently a client asked me for advice on setting up a reverse engineering project. The company had just hired a senior engineer from a competitor that had pulled ahead of them the year before with the ...

“Reverse engineering” has something of a negative connotation. People tend to associate it with corporate espionage or creative desperation. In reality, reverse engineering is a useful skill and a ...