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

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…

AI Transformation Is Not a Strategy Problem — It’s an Ownership Problem

Most AI transformations will fail for a familiar reason. Not because the strategy is wrong, but because organisations misread how change actually happens. The recent BCG analysis makes this explicit: leaders assume alignment, but employees experience change as something imposed, not chosen. The gap matters.…

The Quiet Decay: Why IP Value Slips When No One Is Watching

Intellectual property rarely fails loudly. It fails in the gap between filing and follow-through — the priority date no one re-checked, the order no one renewed, the AI agent no one supervised. This month’s posts make one point together: the threat to your most valuable…

Your AI Agent Won’t Keep a Secret

For two decades, IP protection quietly relied on one assumption: a human in the loop who knew what was confidential, what was privileged, and where a draft came from. Agentic AI removes that person. A new white paper from the Governance Institute of Australia, Governance…