Intellectual Property assets can be used in many ways and for many purposes. Something of strategic value to one company may be useless to another. We work closely with clients to understand value creation in their context and to use intellectual property to enhance value for them. Typically this results in the intellectual property itself becoming more valuable, and sometimes it does not.
Some examples of increasing value with IP include:
Insights about increasing value with IP
When a company splits in two, one side usually ends up renting what it used to own. Which side, and on what terms, is decided in the separation workstream that gets the least board attention: the allocation of patents, brands, data and know-how. That allocation…
October was a month about the gap between owning a right and controlling an outcome. A valid patent on a drug’s mechanism that left its owner with no market. A licence signed years ago that now decides which defence contracts a company may bid for.…
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…
The patent is rarely where the money is decided. The licence is. Three IP developments from the past week make that point, and each turns on terms settled, or left unsettled, long before anyone reached a court. In the United Kingdom, the government has published…
If AI collapses the cost of making your product, the question is no longer how cheaply you can make it. It is what stops a competitor making the same thing. That is a trade secret and patent question, and most AI strategies never get to…
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…
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