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...
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...
Introduction An IP landscape report commissioned today describes the state of the art as it existed when the analyst pulled the dataset — typically six to ten weeks ago. In a technology domain where relevant filings number in the thousands...
Introduction The signal that matters in IP competitive intelligence is not what a competitor says they are doing. It is what they are filing. Patent filings are the earliest public disclosure of R&D direction. A competitor who files 40 patents...
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...
Introduction Most R&D teams file patents based on what they have already invented. The teams building the most defensible IP positions are filing based on where the technology landscape is going. AI-related patents are growing 28% year-on-year globally (WIPO 2025)....