At its best, an intellectual property strategy will inform and direct a company’s creative and research and development activities as well as deal with the output (patents, technology, brands etc). We help clients to review and optimize processes for identifying, reviewing and setting guidelines to understand the value behind intellectual creations from both internal and external sources in a cost effective way. We work with clients to:
Insights about developing your IP portfolio
The price of frontier AI capability is falling towards zero. The consequence for an IP strategy is not that AI has become cheaper. It is that anything you thought you were buying at the model layer, you are not buying exclusively. In July a Chinese…
There are two ways to hold a position in a technology. You can own the technology. Or you can own what it takes to build and install the technology at volume. They are not the same asset, and only one of them is scarce. China…
Patent law only pays for outliers. Novelty and inventive step exist to screen out the expected, so a patent portfolio is, by design, a collection of exceptions. Hold that thought against new research from Harvard, Wharton, Northwestern and Columbia, published in Harvard Business Review on…
Most IP portfolios are not shaped by strategy. They are shaped by whatever was urgent that week. Renewals get paid because the deadline arrived. Examination responses get filed because the clock was running. Meanwhile, the decisions that actually determine the value of an intellectual property…
If a capability you spent years building can be downloaded on a Sunday afternoon, the question is not how to stop that. It is what you own that survives it. Ben Thompson’s recent Stratechery piece works through the economics of the new Chinese open-weight models…
When a market is about to triple in a decade, the patent filing map you drew for yesterday’s demand is the one that will let you down. A McKinsey analysis, written with the Indian Electrical and Electronics Manufacturers Association, puts numbers on the shift: India’s…
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