Southeast Asia’s Fragmented IP Landscape: How Singapore-Based IP Teams Use AI for ASEAN Patent Coverage
Introduction There is no ASEAN patent. A product launching across Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia, the Philippines, Malaysia, and Singapore — a combined market of more than 600 million people and the world’s fifth-largest economy — requires six separate patent filings, in...
India’s Patent Office Is Evolving Fast: How AI Prior Art Search Helps IP Teams Filing at the CGPDTM
Introduction India is the world’s third-largest pharmaceutical patent filer. Its technology sector — centred in Bangalore, Hyderabad, and Pune — is generating an accelerating volume of software, semiconductor, and AI patent applications. Its regulatory environment for patent prosecution has undergone...
CIP Patents: How AI Identifies New Claim Opportunities, Builds Patent Families, and Maximises Portfolio Coverage
A granted patent is a starting point, not a finish line. The most defensible IP positions are built from patent families — parent patents extended through continuations and continuation-in-part applications that follow technology development and block competitive workarounds. Most companies...
Defensive Publication: How AI Helps IP Teams Choose the Right Strategy, Draft Prior Art, and Protect Innovation Cost-Effectively
Introduction Not every invention needs a patent. And not every invention that does not need a patent should be left unprotected. Defensive publication is the third option that most IP teams underuse — the deliberate disclosure of an invention to...
Technology Scouting: How AI Accelerates Emerging Tech Discovery, IP Landscape Mapping, and White Space Identification
Introduction Your R&D team has a brief: identify which emerging technologies are worth pursuing, which competitors are filing in adjacent domains, and where the open filing territory is. That is three separate workflows — traditionally three separate engagements — each...
AI vs Keyword Patent Search: Which Actually Finds More Prior Art? (With Benchmark Data)
Introduction Keyword patent search has a structural flaw. It is called the vocabulary problem. An invention described as a ‘distributed ledger system’ and an invention described as a ‘decentralised transaction record’ are technically identical. A keyword search for one finds...
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