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 find
Legal updates, strategic insights, and practical examples
Articles connect IP developments and portfolio decisions to the questions faced by founders, boards, investors, and operators.
Strategic IP insight
Board-level thinking on patents, trade marks, designs, international filing, competitive intelligence, and investor-ready portfolio decisions.
Case-study style stories
Practical scenarios and lessons that show how IP decisions can arise in funding, launch, diligence, and growth moments.
11 articles.
What accountants should spot before innovative clients miss Patent Box
Patent Box can sit between tax, IP and product strategy. Accountants are often the first people close enough to spot the opportunity.
Corporation Tax went up. Is your patent strategy pulling its weight?
Patents should not only sit in a portfolio schedule. For some profitable companies, they may change the tax conversation.
Patent Box: the overlooked tax lever for patented innovation
If Corporation Tax is eating into the gains from innovation, the patent position may deserve a closer commercial review.
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
Lessons from the Strava v. Garmin dispute on patent priority, prior art, collaboration contracts, and the practical limits of injunction strategy.