"Expertise is overrated. To build a nation of innovators, we should focus on youth, diversity, and collaboration. Innovation is inefficient. More often than not, it is undisciplined, contrarian, and iconoclastic; and it nourishes itself with confusion and contradiction. In short, being innovative flies in the face of what almost all parents want for their children, most CEOs want for their companies, and heads of states want for their countries. And innovative people are a pain in the ass."

- - Nicholas Negroponte
Our Team

Telaric Ideas is an innovation and intellectual property firm formed in 1996 to create an environment that would allow our team to thrive as innovators - but also give us an opportunity to assist others with using innovation to create economic value.

We consist of a group of individuals who have made a career out of innovation - originating technologies, developing hundreds of new products and services, and leading research and development teams in multiple industries. All of us have spent part of our careers as senior executives in large public companies and smaller privately-held companies.

Within Telaric Ideas, we continue to innovate. Since 1996, we’ve had over 25 patents issued (with many more pending), founded 6 companies, raised millions of dollars of external financing, negotiated multiple patent license agreements and settled a major patent infringement lawsuit against a Fortune 100 company. We’ve also developed two technologies that automate many of the patent-related tasks that make the process of prior art searching and patent writing so terribly inefficient and prone to error.

Beyond working on our own innovations, we devote about half our time to assisting companies increase their innovation level, strengthen their intellectual property protection and lower their innovation costs. Our goal with these services is to increase the return on our client’s innovation investment while decreasing their risk.

In our consulting work, we believe that we have the expertise and experience to create a very positive impact. Over the past 25+ years, we’ve studied the basis for innovation and applied that understanding to real business environments - learning, first hand, that innovation only provides a benefit to a business if it creates economic value.

Since our beginning, we’ve built a diverse team who share a unique level of curiosity, creativity and business-centric mindset. Our current members are listed below. You can learn more about each member by clicking on their name.

Carlos de la Huerga

Scott Kroeger

Allen Oelschlaeger

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