Intellectual property professionals or innovative company leaders, can you provide an example of a situation where your organization has chosen a defensive publication over a patent, or vice versa, and what the strategic reason was for the choice?

The dividing line between whether to publish a defensive publication or file a patent application is the projected return on investment (ROI). Provided the projected ROI for an invention is sufficiently high, filing a patent application is the better option. But absent such an ROI, a defensive publication is a cost-effective solution to publish information about your invention and prevent others from patenting your invention.