PerspireIP Blog
Expert perspectives on intellectual property strategy, patent law, trademark protection, and IP portfolio management from the PerspireIP team.
A drafting guide to the specification section that names your figures: what 37 CFR 1.74 requires, the single-view trap in 37 CFR 1.84(u), design practice under 37 CFR 1.152, and what changed in Europe when Rule 46 EPC was deleted.
Read MoreA practical guide to IP enforcement in France: the saisie-contrefaçon, the exclusive Paris patent court, the UPC, customs seizures, damages and criminal counterfeiting.
Read MoreA practical, 2026 guide to validating a European patent in Switzerland: no translation, no fee, one right for two countries, and a specialist court to enforce it.
Read MoreTwo platforms publish a monthly price. One charges by user seat, the other by portfolio size — so the cheaper headline number is not the cheaper system. Here is how to make the quotes comparable.
Read MoreHumanoid filings are surging, China leads by volume while the US holds a quality premium, cobots are the fastest-growing industrial segment, and the value is migrating to software — the robotics patent trends that matter in 2026.
Read MoreSolid lines claim, broken lines disclaim. A practitioner's guide to getting design patent broken lines right under 37 CFR 1.152 and MPEP 1503.02.
Read MoreA practical guide to trademark registration in Netherlands: why it is really a Benelux right through BOIP, what it costs, how long it takes, and the mistakes that cost brand owners protection.
Read MoreA practitioner's guide to IP enforcement in Germany: choosing between the UPC and national courts, winning injunctions, using customs seizures, and the remedies and costs that follow.
Read MoreThe docketing failures that cost registrations do not look like failures. The matter is in the system, the date is populated, the reminder fires — and the rule behind the date was the wrong one.
Read MoreHuawei, Qualcomm, Samsung and Ericsson top a pool of 57,000+ declared 5G patent families — but declared counts overstate who really owns the standard. The ranking, by company and country.
Read MoreA practical guide to amending patent drawings under 37 CFR 1.121(d) - which sheet label to use, how to avoid new matter, and the deadlines that cannot be extended.
Read MoreA practical guide to how to file a patent in Netherlands - the national, European and PCT routes, the mandatory novelty search, the no-examination grant and costs.
Read MoreA practical, deadline-by-deadline guide to entering the PCT national phase in Germany at the DPMA - translation, fees, examination and the EP alternative.
Read MoreWhich UK court to use, how the IPEC cost caps work, customs seizures after Brexit, injunctions, and the remedies available for infringement.
Read MoreWhere patent disputes are heard in Sweden, how invalidity is raised, what a case costs, and how the Nordic-Baltic UPC division changes the picture.
Read MoreA practitioner's 2026 guide to entering the PCT national phase in the United Kingdom — the 31-month deadline, the UKIPO route versus the European route, current fees, translation rules, and the late-entry lifeline.
Read MoreA practical, 2026-accurate guide to registering a trademark in Sweden through the PRV — the fees, the Nice classes, the examination the office runs, the three-month opposition window, and how to keep the mark alive.
Read MoreChina leads, IBM and Google top the corporates, the field is still unusually academic, and error correction is the new frontier — the quantum computing patent trends that matter in 2026.
Read MoreEight worked figure sets, the rule that governs each one, and the objection it is designed to avoid. What compliant patent figures actually look like, scenario by scenario.
Read MoreSolar still leads, wind climbs fastest, China has taken the lead and hydrogen is shifting to electrolysis — the renewable energy patent trends that matter in 2026.
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