Introduction A semiconductor product designed by a Taiwan fabless company, fabricated at TSMC, using components from Korean and Japanese suppliers, targeting consumer electronics markets in Japan, Korea, the United States, and China. This is not a hypothetical supply chain. It...
Introduction Denmark and Sweden have built some of the world’s most significant IP positions in offshore wind energy, advanced pharmaceuticals, enterprise telecommunications, and automotive systems. Vestas holds over 1,500 active patents. Ørsted is accelerating its IP position in offshore wind...
Introduction Imagine this. Your R&D team identified a technology direction in October. You commissioned a patent landscape report. The analyst pulled the data in November. The analysis took until December. The report landed in your inbox in January. By February,...
Introduction Since the Unified Patent Court opened in June 2023, the pace of European patent litigation has changed materially. As of early 2025, over 880 cases had been filed at the UPC — with the German local divisions in Düsseldorf...
Introduction Understanding the patent landscape before making R&D investment decisions is not optional — it is the difference between filing into whitespace and filing into a wall. Yet traditional patent landscape analysis is expensive, slow, and becomes outdated the moment...
Introduction Patent risk does not appear only at the moment of product launch. It builds across the entire product lifecycle — in the engineering decisions made before launch, in the competitor filings that publish while development is underway, and in...