Patently Successful
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Patently Successful
Patently Successful is a practical, jargon-free guide to creating, protecting, and leveraging intellectual property, demonstrating its power to shape careers, build reputations, and transform industries.
Intellectual property (IP)—patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets, open source, and standards—is the most underused career accelerator available today. It is how ideas become assets, how credibility becomes influence. IP can often seem opaque and intimidating. At its core, however, it is not just a legal abstraction. It is concrete evidence of new ideas and the contributions they can make.
Patently Successful is a practical, jargon-free guide to creating, protecting, and leveraging IP, demonstrating its power to shape careers, build reputations, and transform industries. Nicole Reineke demystifies the world of IP, showing how it can amplify creativity and drive professional growth. She walks readers through how to find problems worth solving, choose the right form of intellectual property, build momentum through mentor circles and community, and use artificial intelligence as a tool to expand creative capacity. Along the way, Reineke shares stories from prolific inventors and industry builders who have used IP to reshape their careers and influence entire ecosystems.
Through real-world stories, accessible frameworks, and lessons from inventors and community builders, Patently Successful illustrates how anyone, regardless of title or training, can build an IP portfolio that reflects their strengths and testifies to their readiness, credibility, and ambition.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9780231223829
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 13 October 2026
Country: United States
Imprint: Columbia Business School Publishing
Illustration: 13 b&w figures
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 140.0mm
Height: 216.0mm
Weight: 0g
Pages: 272
About the Author
Nicole Reineke is chief AI officer at N-able and faculty in the Artificial Intelligence Management program at the Georgetown University School of Continuing Studies. A coauthor of Compassion-Driven Innovation: 12 Steps for Breakthrough Success (2022), among other books, she holds more than fifty patents, making her among the most prolific recorded inventors.
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