Law360, New York (March 8, 2013, 11:49 AM EST) -- Anyone who knows what "IP" stands for almost certainly also knows the three-letter acronym "AIA." (America Invents Act, in case you're not one of those people.) Many companies are rushing to file big boluses of patent applications before March 16, 2013, when the final provisions of AIA go into effect and the United States converts to a first-inventor-to-file patent system. But simply filing patent applications quickly is only a small part of building a strategic, valuable patent portfolio. In fact, just filing applications quickly but haphazardly when a company's inventors toss invention disclosures over the wall is very unlikely to produce meaningful patents that yield significant return on investment....