Legal updates with commercial context
Changes in IP law, filing practice, prosecution, and portfolio management explained through what they mean for founders and operators.
Knowledge Hub
IP stories, strategy notes, and field guides for innovation teams.
More than updates. These are practical narratives about the moments when patents, trade marks, designs, filings, diligence, and investor questions start to matter.
What you will discover
Legal updates, strategic insights, and case-study style thinking
The old Knowledge Hub idea is back, but now it is static, faster, and written to be useful rather than just decorative.
Strategic IP insight
Board-level thinking on patents, trade marks, designs, international filing, competitive intelligence, and investor-ready portfolio decisions.
Case-study style stories
Anonymised founder scenarios and practical lessons that show how IP decisions actually appear in funding, launch, diligence, and growth moments.
Building an IP Portfolio Investors Understand
A story-led guide to turning patents, trade marks, designs, know-how, and ownership records into an IP narrative investors can actually diligence.
Patent Strategy for Hardware Startups
A practical story about protecting hardware before pilots, trade shows, procurement meetings, manufacturing choices, and investor diligence.
Trade Mark Clearance Before Launch
The brand story founders often learn too late: naming, clearance, filing, domains, social handles, and international expansion should move before launch day.
International Filing Routes for Growth Companies
A board-level story about choosing PCT, EP, UK, US, EU, Hague, Madrid, and national routes without turning the IP budget into a map of everywhere.
Design Rights for Product-Led Startups
Why product shape, interface, packaging, variants, and launch visuals should be protected before a copycat can move faster than the original team.
Turning IP Diligence Into a Growth Signal
How founders can use IP diligence to show operational maturity, not just survive investor questions about filings, ownership, risks, and freedom to operate.
The Art of Selling IP
Why selling IP is nothing like selling a simple product: value depends on commercial relevance, durability, ownership, and serious due diligence.
When Mum & Dad Fight: What Strava v. Garmin Teaches Us About IP
Garmin vs. Strava isn’t just drama—it’s a masterclass in priority vs. prior art, co-build contracts, and why injunctions rarely end consumer tech fights.