Who Owns Quantum Computing Patents? Why IBM Leads
IBM owns 4,388 quantum computing patent families, far ahead of Google, Microsoft and D-Wave. The full 2026 ownership ranking and what the concentration means.
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Expert perspectives on intellectual property strategy, patent law, trademark protection, and IP portfolio management from the PerspireIP team.
Patent Drawings in Poland: 7 Critical UPRP Sheet Rules
A drawing sheet that clears the USPTO and the PCT can still be objected to in Poland, because the Polish left margin minimum is 35 mm rather than 25 mm. Here is what the UPRP rulebook actually requires.
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Intellectual Property Audit: 8 Essential Steps (2026)
A practical, step-by-step guide to running an intellectual property audit: building the asset inventory, confirming chain of title, checking maintenance and encumbrances, testing freedom to operate, finding unprotected assets, and turning findings into an action plan before a raise, a sale or a licensing deal.
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Trademark Registration in Japan: 7 Essential Steps (2026)
A practitioner's guide to trademark registration in Japan: the JPO's first-to-file rule, national vs Madrid routes, 2026 fees and the five-year installment, the new consent system, the 10-year term with no use declaration, and the two-month post-grant opposition window.
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Korea Trademark Docketing: 7 Critical KIPO Dates After the 2025 Reform
Korea has no declaration of use and no incontestability filing. What it has instead is a second fee instalment that extinguishes the registration five years in, a renewal application opening a year before expiry, and an opposition window cut to 30 days in July 2025 that the free English translation of the Act still reports as two months.
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FRAND Royalty Rate: How Courts Actually Price a SEP Licence
How a FRAND royalty rate is actually set — comparable licences, the top-down method, and the per-device rates courts have put on the record.
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Patent Drawings in Germany: 7 Critical DPMA Rules
Germany runs the strictest formal drawing regime of the major filing jurisdictions. No colour, no photographs, and a 0.32 cm character floor. Here is what Annex 2 PatV actually requires.
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Patent Litigation in Canada: 7 Essential Facts (2026)
A practitioner's guide to patent litigation in Canada: Federal Court versus provincial jurisdiction, how invalidity is raised, the election between damages and an accounting of profits, injunctions, the PM(NOC) stay, limitation periods and appeals.
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PCT National Phase in South Africa: 6 Key Steps (2026)
A practitioner's guide to entering the PCT national phase in South Africa: the 31-month deadline, what CIPC actually checks, translation and agent rules, costs, and why a South African grant is not an examined patent.
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Japan Trademark Docketing: 8 Critical JPO Dates a US Docket Omits
Japan has no declaration of use. What it has instead is a fee instalment five years in that expires a registration retroactively when it is missed — plus opposition that opens after registration. Eight dates a USPTO-shaped docket never stores.
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CAR-T Patent Landscape 2026: What Developers Must Know
The 2026 CAR-T patent landscape mapped: the foundational CD19, 4-1BB and CD28 patents, who controls them, and how Juno v. Kite reshaped what is enforceable.
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Patent Drawings in Ireland: 9 Critical IPOI and EPO Rules
Rule 12 of the Irish Patents Rules 1992 still demands black lines “without colourings”, months after the EPO began accepting colour. Nine rules that decide whether an Irish figure set clears the IPOI formalities review.
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PCT National Phase in Poland: 6 Essential Steps
Poland gives you 30 months to enter the national phase, and there is no safety net if you miss it. A practical walkthrough of the UPRP filing, the Polish translation trap, and why Poland sits outside the UPC.
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IP Enforcement in Austria: 7 Essential Steps to Win
Austria hears every patent infringement case in a single Vienna court, but sends validity somewhere else entirely. A practical guide to injunctions, customs seizures and the UPC option.
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China Trademark Docketing: 9 Critical CNIPA Deadline Traps
CNIPA measures its most consequential deadlines in fifteen days, not months, and bars re-filing for a year after a mark lapses. Nine Chinese dates a USPTO-shaped docket computes against the wrong rulebook.
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Freedom to Operate vs Patentability: What’s the Difference?
Patentability asks whether your invention is new. Freedom to operate asks whether you can sell it without infringing. Here is how the two searches differ and why a product launch needs both.
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Patent Drawings in Canada: 9 Critical CIPO Filing Rules
Section 27(5.1) of the Patent Act makes drawings a statutory duty, and section 59 of the Patent Rules bars photographs outright. Nine rules that decide whether a Canadian figure set clears CIPO.
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IP Enforcement in Ireland: 8 Essential Steps to Win
Ireland sits outside the UPC, so a European patent is enforced here nationally, in the High Court's Commercial List. A practical guide to injunctions, customs and remedies.
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Patent Continuation Strategy: 7 Proven Moves to Win
A continuation keeps one application pending so you can keep drafting claims for years. Used well, it turns a single disclosure into a portfolio that follows your competitors.
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Canada Trademark Docketing: 10 CIPO Dates a US Docket Gets Wrong
Canada abolished the declaration of use in 2019 and left a docket with almost nothing to schedule — which is the problem. Ten CIPO dates a USPTO-shaped docket does not generate, including a two-month classification top-up and a three-year date that governs enforceability, each checked against the Trademarks Act and CIPO practice.
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