IP Intelligence
Written For Your Situation
The same law reads differently to a founder, an engineer, a researcher and an enterprise IP team.
Enterprise
IP for enterprises
Portfolios, harvesting, pruning, landscapes, freedom to operate and the budget conversations behind them.
What happens to IP when an employee leaves
Establish what they invented, confirm it has been assigned in writing, and run an exit process that captures the technical record before access is revoked.
Reading your competitors through their patents
Published applications tell you what a competitor thought was worth protecting eighteen months ago, and where they chose to file tells you which markets they care ab…
Freedom to operate before you commercialise
Because a patent is a right to exclude others, not a licence to practise your own invention. FTO is the only exercise that answers whether you can sell.
IP red flags when buying a company
Chain of title, renewal and working statement status, encumbrances, and whether the claims actually cover anything a competitor would have to avoid.
IP in sponsored and collaborative research
Who owns background, who owns foreground, who may publish and when, who may file and who pays, and what happens when the project ends.
Running a patent portfolio as an asset
By reviewing every case against the same four commercial questions on a fixed cycle, with a named owner for each - not by counting filings.
Pruning a portfolio without losing anything you need
Case by case, against stated criteria, with three checks before anything is dropped - and with the decision and its reason written down.
Harvesting inventions that already exist
By asking about problems solved rather than features shipped, on a regular cycle, before the work becomes public.
Reading competitors through their patent filings
Where they intend to defend, what technical direction they committed to eighteen months ago, and which markets they have quietly given up on.
Using a patent landscape to steer research
To find the crowded areas, the white space and - most usefully - the component everybody depends on that only one company owns.
Renewal strategy, and the 10% nobody claims
Partly. Prune deliberately, pay in advance electronically where the discount applies, and above all keep the register details current so nothing lapses by accident.
Moving technology out of the organisation
With an honest assessment of what the patents actually cover, then a package that includes the know-how a licensee will need to make it work.
Building an IP function that does more than file
A harvesting cycle, a commercial triage step, a portfolio review, competitor monitoring and a freedom to operate gate before launch. Filing is one of five activities…
Budgeting for IP over a twenty-year horizon
Because renewals compound. Filing costs are one-off; renewals recur annually, escalate with age and multiply across countries.
Defensive publication: blocking without filing
Publish it deliberately. A dated, enabling public disclosure becomes prior art against everyone, including competitors - at the cost of giving up your own ability to…
IP risk in the supply chain
Yours, usually. Selling a product that infringes is an infringing act regardless of who made the component, and standard supply terms rarely indemnify against it.
Setting up competitor monitoring that gets used
Watch the Official Journal by technical classification and by competitor name, route the results to someone technical, and act within the pre-grant window when somet…
Not sure whether this applies to your invention?
The honest answer usually needs someone to look at your actual disclosure, your timeline and the prior art. That is a conversation, not an article.
Educational guidance, not legal advice. This material is published by Ragulika IP for general education and information. It is not legal advice, it does not create a professional-client relationship, and it is not a substitute for advice on your own facts. Patentability, infringement, prosecution strategy and every other IP outcome turn on the specific facts and on the law and Patent Office practice as they stand at the time you act. Please take professional advice before making a decision, and read the underlying provision or judgment before relying on any point stated here.