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The unitary patent system launched in June 2023 and has been adopted faster than most observers expected. By early 2025, the coverage has now extended across 18 EU member states. For IP teams managing European patent portfolios, the unitary patent is no longer a future consideration, but an active decision that needs to be understood, […]
Most renewal workflows are built around patents. The annuity structure is well understood, the deadline logic is consistent across major jurisdictions, and the process of tracking and paying annual fees has been systematized to a degree that most IP teams are reasonably confident in. What sits alongside those patents in the same portfolio, carrying the […]
Every IP team knows the work happens locally. Rights are territorial, most offices require foreign applicants to act through a locally registered representative or to maintain a local address for service, and a portfolio spanning thirty jurisdictions can mean thirty separate sets of procedural rules applied by as many separate firms. The requirement varies by […]
When a European Patent is granted by the European Patent Office, the instinct is to treat it as the finish line. The application has been examined, the claims have been allowed, and the protection has been secured. In reality, the grant is the starting point of a time-critical process that determines whether that protection actually […]
The economics of global IP protection are under pressure. Translation costs can account for up to 50% more than the filing costs themselves, making them one of the most significant and most scrutinized line items in any international filing strategy. When machine translation (MT) and AI promise to cut that cost dramatically, the appeal is […]
There is a tendency in IP management to focus on the rights themselves as the asset worth protecting. These ‘assets’ are the things that get filed, maintained, and defended but sitting behind every right in a portfolio is a body of data that is equally valuable and, in many cases, far more vulnerable. Ownership structures, […]