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Marketing expert Tim Calkins shows businesses how to create and maintain a defensive strategy including: how to understand and get competitive intelligence; how to determine if your brand or company is at risk; how to create a defensive strategy; limiting risk and preventing a trial; understanding your own IP as a weapon - and much more.

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Here Calkins shows business how to create and maintain a defensive strategy including: how to understand and get competitive intelligence; how to determine if your brand or company is at risk; how to create a defensive strategy; limiting risk and preventing a trial; understanding your own IP as a weapon - and much more.

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Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: The Threat Chapter 3: The Financial Challenge Chapter 4: Know Your Enemy Chapter 5: Competitive Intelligence Chapter 6: The Key Question Chapter 7: Planning the Defense Chapter 8: Stopping the Launch Chapter 9: Blocking Distribution Chapter 10: Limiting Awareness Chapter 11: Preventing Trial Chapter 12: Fighting Repeat Chapter 13: Defense Never Ends Chapter 14: Defensive Strategy for Innovators Chapter 15: A Cautionary Word about Competition Law

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Tim Calkins is clinical professor of marketing at Northwestern University´s Kellogg School of Management and co-academic director of Kellogg´s branding program. He is the managing director of Class5 Consulting, a marketing strategy firm and has been quoted in Businessweek, Newsweek, the Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times. He lives in Evanston, IL.

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