Insights from IP Data and Analytics

We work with clients to use intellectual property data and analytics to make better decisions while improving their IP Strategy. We help clients to use IP information to:

  • monitor competitors
  • identify profitable areas for IP creation
  • refine product development
  • guide marketing strategies
  • identify and deal with disruptive solutions
  • define innovation policies
  • understand the value of individual IP assets
  • optimise IP portfolios
  • identify potential partners
  • communicate the value of IP to the business and the market
  • improve IP asset quality by analysing prior filings

Insights about using information and data to inform your IP Strategy

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…

Own the Platform, or Pay to Use It

July was a month about ownership. Not compliance, not litigation skill – ownership. Google’s edge sits on TPU technology that competitors must come back and license. Sanofi lost the mRNA product race and is now taxing the winners through delivery patents it happens to hold.…

The Cash Behind the Compute

When Berkshire Hathaway takes a $10 billion stake in Alphabet, the headline is the money. The real story is what Google chose not to monetise on its own. Google’s most valuable asset isn’t its ad engine or its cash pile—it’s the TPU, a proprietary chip…

When the Moat Goes Orbital

Ben Thompson’s recent Stratechery analysis is a masterclass in how scale, integration and narrative compound into something competitors can no longer touch. Starlink is profitable not because the satellites are clever, but because SpaceX owns the launch capacity that puts them there. Tesla’s Full Self-Driving…