The most basic step towards achieving excellence in IP strategy is to understand and efficiently manage your own IP portfolio. Managing IP covers everything from knowing what to protect and how, through to what breadth is needed from each IP asset (whether geographically, technical scope) or when to abandon IP assets that have no further strategic use.
We work with clients to build more effective IP Management programs, for example, to:
Insights about Managing your IP
Global banking has just posted the most profitable year of any industry – US$1.3 trillion in net income – and still trades at the lowest price-to-book of any industry. McKinsey’s preview of its Global Banking Annual Review 2026 reads that gap plainly: investors are delighted…
Long-lived patents, an AI-shifted landscape: why a fixed filing roadmap fails, and the three decision rules an IP strategy needs instead.
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…
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…
Many intellectual property strategies don’t fail because they were poorly designed. They fail because nothing changes after the sign-off. New McKinsey research in Harvard Business Review — How to Ensure Your Company Acts on Your New Strategy — puts numbers on the problem for business…
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