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John Cronin
Chairman and CEO (802) 859-7800 jcronin@ipcg.com
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John Cronin is the author of “AI Enters the IAM and IP Space as an App Store? You’re Kidding!”
Is the Rental Car Industry Heading Toward Disruption Because of Intellectual Property?
Do Investors Care About IP Anymore? When IP Is a Consideration in Devising Investment Strategies
What should your foreign filing strategy be?
Virtualized Innovation Labs – No More Physical Innovation Labs Needed
Is Your IT Director Blockading Your AI Development?
Patent Licensing and Patent Sales Go Hollywood!
Artificial intelligence in IP/IAM space will come to us as an “App store”
Summary of ipCG’s 14th Annual Thought Leadership Conference
Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Invention Disclosures
Biography
John Cronin is Chairman and CEO of ipCapital Group, Inc. (“ipCG”), an intellectual property consulting firm. Mr. Cronin founded ipCG in 1998.
ipCG is noted as being the first IP Strategy consulting firm globally. ipCG is the most recognized IP strategy consulting team globally, boasting over 45 different services.
Capitalizing on a lifelong study of creative and inventive thinking processes, business strategy development, and transaction negotiations, Mr. Cronin has created a unique consulting ipCapital Methodology™. This Methodology includes robust data-driven IP Strategy processes, which lead to a complete Intellectual Asset Management program (IAM) with many of the services and tools backed up by AI and ML. The ipCapital Methodology provides ipCG clients with unique IP Creation Services for invention extraction, creation, and documentation, along with world-class IP Valuation, licensing, and transaction processes. The ipCapital Methodology allows extraction and documentation of inventions, identifying opportunity and risk, driving transactions to completion, and creating significant market value from IP.
Mr. Cronin and ipCG have worked with over 1,500 companies and approximately 10% of the Fortune 500 companies, hundreds of mid-size companies, and hundreds of startups and governmental laboratories. Over the years, Mr. Cronin has become a respected thought leader among executives who wish to align business issues with IP and translate strategies into actionable financial results. Mr. Cronin has inspired and trained thousands of engineers and scientists in the best practices of “how to invent.”
Mr. Cronin has authored greater than 1700 patents and applications across hundreds of technology spaces, leveraging the ipCapital Methodology.
Before forming ipCG, Mr. Cronin spent over 17 years at IBM and became its top inventor with over 100 patents and 150 patent publications. He created and ran the IBM Patent Factory, which was essential in helping IBM become number one in US patents and led the team that contributed to the startup and success of IBM’s licensing program. Mr. Cronin is also the Chair of the Board of Directors of AdrenalineIP, a Board member of IX-Innovations, and is the Founder of HarvestWeb, a 501(c)3 charitable organization that provides an easy online way to make donations to food pantries. You can donate to HarvestWeb here.
As host of the podcast “Invent Anything with John Cronin” (Invent Anything™ Podcast – ipCG | Innovation and IP Consulting), Mr. Cronin shares decades of experience using creativity tools for invention, applying for and receiving patent protection, and using intellectual property strategy to generate business value.
Articles
IAM 300: ipCapital recognized as World’s Leading IP Strategist
John Cronin, Chairman and Managing Director, and Nancy Edwards Cronin, President and Managing Director, have been once again recognized in the IAM Strategy 300: World’s Leading IP Strategists, which highlights top global experts in IP strategy. The guide honors individuals who excel in developing and implementing strategies to maximize IP portfolio value across various sectors, […]
Announcement: Brazil 2023 GCCM in Rio de Janeiro
ipCapital Group (ipCG) has announced its participation in the Brazil 2023 GCCM (Global Carrier Community Meeting) taking place on 30-31 August 2023 in Rio de Janeiro. The event will convene over 200 members from more than 100 operators across 24 countries, including various sectors like Data, Cloud, Mobile, OTT/Content Providers, Submarine Cable, Enterprise, Satellite, and […]
Finalists for European Inventor Award 2023 Featured on “Inventors at Work” Podcast
Inventors at Work” podcast hosted by John Cronin, from ipCapitalGroup, features interview with European Inventor Awards finalist Kripa Varanasi and David Smith. “Kripa and David have developed a game-changing non-stick coating that enables thick liquids to flow effortlessly,” says John Cronin, IAW Host and Chairman of ipCapital Group®.” WILLISTON, VERMONT, UNITED STATES, June 6, 2023/EINPresswire.com/ […]
Revolutionizing Patent Applications: ChatGPT’s Impact on Innovation Across Technology Fields
Summary Artificial intelligence (AI) language models such as ChatGPT have opened up new opportunities for information sharing, advice, and ideas across various technology fields, all of which can be patentable. ChatGPT (and all Large Language Models like it) have the potential to be a valuable tool in the invention and subsequent patent application process. However, […]
Navigating the “Chalice Issues” for ChatGPT enabled invention: A Patentability Guide
Summary: Artificial intelligence (AI)-driven technology is developing quickly. With it comes the need to comprehend how patent regulations, such as those impacted by the famous Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank International case, affect the patentability of AI innovations like ChatGPT. This article aims to analyze the “Chalice[1]” obstacles that result from combining ChatGPT with the […]
From Flat World to ChatGPT: Zero Cost Instant AI Disrupts Offshore Labor
Over the last few decades, the globe has seen a significant shift, moving from the industrial age to the age of information and technology. How we work and live fundamentally changes as this development progresses and new technologies are being made. Using Low-cost offshore workers for everything from research, software programming, and prototypes, things have […]
Guarding Your Intellectual Property – SharkPreneur
John Cronin appears on the SharkPreneur Podcast Hosted by Seth Greene. Listen to this illuminating Sharkpreneur episode with John Cronin about guarding your intellectual property.
The Blue Gas Revolution Stands on the Shoulders of Past Inventors
Blue Gas is poised to revolutionize transportation and energy. But what inventions will be needed for it to really take off in our lifetimes?
How the Big Banks and OIN Can Lock Out Patent Trolls with Enabled Publications
While some banks may need invention to prevent banking errors, other banks need to solve a different problem: patent infringement. Barclays Bank, TD Bank, and others have joined the Open Invention Network (OIN) to resist litigation threats from patent trolls. For many years, OIN has provided a way to reduce the threat of license and […]
NASA’s Perseverance Rover: where would we be without science fiction inventors?
As the Perseverance Rover nears Mars today (an historical event), we should keep in mind that NASA continues to patent many of its new innovations. For decades, the technology they have developed has led to innovations in the private sector. Many of NASA’s patents have recently been released to the public domain, and many of […]
Publications
AI Enters the IAM and IP Space as an App Store? You’re Kidding!
John Cronin, Managing Director and Chairman is the author of “AI Enters the IAM and IP Space as an App Store? You’re Kidding!“. Intro: Artificial Intelligence (AI) goes back to the 1950’s, as defined by Minsky & McCarthy, to be “any task performed by a program or a machine that, if a human carried out the same activity, we would say the human had to apply intelligence to accomplish the task”. This being the case, a lot has happened in almost 70 years since that statement. The history of AI can be easily researched; however, a reasonable definition can also be extracted from examples of how AI is being used and what AI is being used for. More >>
Identify your Innovation Cosmic Event Before it's too Late!
A number of acquisitions have appeared in the food and beverage industry in the past several years, including Kraft and Heinz, JAB Holding and Keurig, and most recently the thwarted acquisition of Unilever by Kraft Heinz. Companies would be wise to not only assess the business landscape of potential consolidation in the industry, but consider the IP landscape and patent owner shifts if more of the largest food & beverage corporations merge. More >>
Why Big Data is Key to Wearables for Sport
In this publication, Mr. Cronin explores the Sports Wearables space from a variety of perspectives, all viewed through the lens of Intellectual Property. Each perspective provides a variety of insights on the space and provides a glimpse of the future of the technology of Sports Wearables and the IP that protects it. More >>