Introduction -- The threat -- The financial challenge -- Know your enemy -- Competitive intelligence -- The key question -- Planning the defense -- Stopping the launch -- Blocking distribution -- Limiting awareness -- Preventing trial -- Fighting repeat -- Defense never ends -- Defensive strategy for innovators -- A cautionary word about competition law.

Here 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.