Battery patent filings are growing several times faster than the patent system around them. Here is what the 2024-2025 data reveals about where EV cell innovation is heading.
The Pharma Patent Cliff: $300B in Drug Sales Goes Off Patent by 2030
Over $300 billion in drug revenue loses patent protection between 2025 and 2030. Here is which blockbusters fall, how fast biosimilars erode sales, and what IP teams should do now.
Semiconductor Cross-Licensing: How Chipmakers Clear the Patent Thicket
Semiconductor cross-licensing is how chipmakers ship products through a 100,000-patent thicket. What a cross-license covers, how it differs from FRAND, and 6 rules.
Patent Chain of Title: 5 Breaks That Void Your Rights
A clean patent chain of title is the difference between owning a patent and merely holding the paper. Here is where chains break and how to verify and fix them.
How to Find Patent White Space: A Step-by-Step Guide
A 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.
Technology Forecasting Methods: 7 Techniques That Actually Predict Where Tech Is Heading
The seven technology forecasting methods that matter — S-curve analysis, trend extrapolation, TFDEA, bibliometrics, Delphi, scenario planning and roadmapping — and how to combine them.
The Technology Scouting Process: A 7-Step Guide for R&D Teams
A 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.
Patent Market Sizing: 6 Steps to a Defensible TAM
How 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.
Reasonable Royalty Patent Damages: How Courts Set the Number
How US courts calculate reasonable royalty patent damages: the statutory floor, the 15 Georgia-Pacific factors, and the modern rules an analysis must satisfy.
IP Market Research: Identifying Opportunities and Threats
Every business operates in a market shaped by intellectual property — patents that define what competitors can and cannot do, trademarks that anchor brand recognition, trade…
Competitor Patent Analysis: Intelligence for Strategic Decisions
In the modern knowledge economy, your competitors’ patent portfolios are a window into their strategic intent. Competitor patent analysis — the systematic study of rival organizations’…
Technology Landscape Analysis: Mapping the Innovation Space
Every major technology market is a battlefield where competing innovations fight for dominance, and the combatants who understand the terrain win far more often than those…