Develop your IP portfolio

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:

• focus IP generation and acquisition efforts to match optimum strategic output.
• develop strategies and implement action plans for building the IP portfolio strategically.
• determine the best way to protect and advance IP to maximize return on investment in domestic and international markets.
• scan the environment for opportunities to acquire or in-license relevant IP and assist with communicating, negotiating and documenting deals.
• integrate IP portfolio development across not only technology but branding and other areas.

Insights about developing your IP portfolio

When Everything Is Urgent, Your IP Portfolio Decides Itself: Three Questions to Pressure-Test Your IP Strategy

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…

When Everyone Can Run the Model: What Open-Weight AI Means for Your IP Strategy

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…

Capacity Is Not a Moat: What India’s Electrification Build-Out Means for Your IP Strategy

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…

When AI is embedded in your Workforce, Trade Secrets Become the Strategy

If AI can do the work, what exactly does your company still own? That is the question sitting underneath McKinsey’s new report, The symbiotic enterprise, which argues that AI agents and intelligent robots are becoming a workforce — close to 60 per cent of work…

When AI Does the Shopping, What Does Your Brand Actually Own?

Here is an uncomfortable number for anyone responsible for brand protection: when consumers ask an AI tool about a brand, the brand’s own website supplies only 1–2 per cent of the sources the model cites. That finding sits at the centre of McKinsey’s State of…

The Intelligence You Already Have, May Cost You Millions

The most expensive failures in R&D are not the projects that fail. They are the projects that should never have started — and the ones that limp along because nobody had the evidence to kill them early. Patsnap’s 2026 R&D Benchmark Report puts numbers on…

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