PerspireIP Blog
Expert perspectives on intellectual property strategy, patent law, trademark protection, and IP portfolio management from the PerspireIP team.
Trademark renewal deadlines run from the registration date, not the filing date, and Madrid-based registrations run on two clocks at once. Here is the full ladder, with the grace periods and the traps that cancel registrations.
Read MoreA practical, step-by-step method for finding the unclaimed gaps in a crowded patent field — and telling a real opportunity from an empty dead end.
Read MoreSoftware claims are abstract; the drawings are not. A practical guide to the flowcharts, block diagrams and GUI figures that survive a USPTO drawing review.
Read MoreIt is not enough to enable your invention — you must show you actually possessed it. Here is how the written description requirement decides what your claims can cover.
Read MoreUnlike most EPC states, the UK asks for almost nothing to bring a granted European patent into force. Here is what validation in the United Kingdom really involves.
Read MoreMost docketing platforms were architected for patents, where deadlines run from a filing date. Trademark deadlines run from a registration date, a use date, or a date set at WIPO. That mismatch is where dockets break.
Read MoreThe seven technology forecasting methods that matter — S-curve analysis, trend extrapolation, TFDEA, bibliometrics, Delphi, scenario planning and roadmapping — and how to combine them.
Read MoreAutomated patent drawings can clear 37 CFR 1.84 or trigger an objection. Seven rules for auditing AI and CAD figure output before you file in 2026.
Read MoreA route-by-route guide to filing a French patent — a national INPI filing, a validated European patent, or the PCT via the EPO — with the PACTE reforms, deadlines and courts that matter.
Read MoreA route-by-route guide to filing a UK patent — a national UKIPO filing, a European patent that takes effect here, or the PCT national phase — with the deadlines and courts that matter.
Read MoreA route-by-route guide to filing a German patent — national DPMA filing, a validated European patent, or the PCT phase — with the deadlines and courts that matter.
Read MoreA practical, route-by-route guide to filing a US patent — direct filing, Paris Convention priority, or PCT national phase — with real USPTO deadlines and costs.
Read MoreThe patent priority date decides which prior art can be used against your invention. Here is how effective filing dates work and 6 rules to protect yours.
Read MoreA registered trademark is not untouchable. Here is how a trademark cancellation proceeding works at the TTAB, the grounds that win, and how to defend one.
Read MoreMost "best alternative" lists rank systems that share the same parent company and never test the one thing that matters: whether the software calculates your Section 8, Section 9 and Madrid dates correctly.
Read MoreA practical, 7-step technology scouting process: frame the need, search patents and startups, score every candidate the same way, and ship a shortlist you can act on.
Read MoreRule 11 of the PCT Regulations governs every figure in an international application. Here is what it demands, what changed at the EPO, and how to clear the US national phase.
Read MoreFive years after your trademark registers, a single filing can make it nearly bulletproof. Here is what trademark incontestability really gives you, and what it does not.
Read MoreThe average patent waits roughly a year and a half for a first office action. A petition to make special can cut that dramatically, and for some applicants it costs nothing.
Read MoreHow to size the market behind a patent portfolio bottom-up, tie each segment to the IP that protects it, and produce a number that survives due diligence.
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