PerspireIP Blog
Expert perspectives on intellectual property strategy, patent law, trademark protection, and IP portfolio management from the PerspireIP team.
Every vendor's feature list says "automated deadline calculation". None of them says which rules. These nine tests turn that claim into something you can verify in a demo, using the statutory windows the software is supposed to compute.
Read MoreA continuation inherits the parent's disclosure, and that disclosure is the outer limit of what its figures may show. Here is where the line actually falls.
Read MoreA practical, attorney-written guide to IP portfolio monetization — seven proven ways to turn patents, trademarks and trade secrets into revenue, when each strategy fits, and how to value and prepare your assets before you negotiate.
Read MoreAn attorney-written guide to entering the PCT national phase in United States — the firm 30-month deadline, the English translation and inventor oath, USPTO national-stage fees for 2026, how to revive a missed entry, and where a US patent is enforced.
Read MoreMost guides say there is no deadline to record a trademark assignment. That is half true and dangerously incomplete: Section 1060(a)(4) gives you three months from the date of the assignment before a later good-faith purchaser can take priority over you.
Read MoreSemaglutide's patent cliff lands in 2026 in Canada, India and Brazil but not until roughly 2032 in the US. Here is the country-by-country timeline and what it means.
Read MoreMost drawing objections are not artistic judgements - they are nine measurable form rules. Here is the pre-filing checklist, with the citation behind each check.
Read MoreAn attorney-written guide to entering the PCT national phase in Japan — the strict 30-month deadline, the Japanese translation you must file, the separate three-year examination clock, JPO fees, and where you enforce a Japanese patent.
Read MoreAn attorney-written guide to entering the PCT national phase in Norway — the 31-month deadline, filing in English, current Patentstyret fees, and why a purely Norwegian patent sits entirely outside the UPC.
Read MoreA docket that never misses a date can still wreck a budget. Renewal fees are charged per class, the grace period is a purchase rather than a penalty, and the most expensive events are the ones no calendar schedules.
Read MoreA plain-English guide to post-quantum cryptography patents: what is patentable when the algorithm is standardized, who owns ML-KEM, and why the deadlines matter.
Read MoreFlowcharts, block diagrams, schematics and waveforms are held to the same formal standard as structural figures - and to a few rules that apply to nothing else.
Read MoreAn attorney-written guide to patent litigation in Norway — the single compulsory venue in Oslo, why the Unified Patent Court has no reach here, how validity and infringement are decided together, and what a case really costs.
Read MoreAn attorney-written guide to trademark registration in Norway — why an EU trademark leaves you exposed, Patentstyret's 2026 fees, the relative-grounds examination, the three-month opposition window and renewals.
Read MoreA docket built for US registrations measures every clock from the registration date. Most foreign registers do not, and the resulting renewal dates are precise and wrong. The seven base-date traps that end registrations in a multi-jurisdiction portfolio.
Read MoreSamsung, TSMC, Qualcomm, IBM and Huawei dominate the semiconductor patent record — but grant counts, PCT filings and standard-essential portfolios tell different stories. The 2026 ranking, by company and by office.
Read MoreThe UK rules on drawings are shorter than the American ones, kinder than most people expect, and easy to breach in ways that cost a formalities cycle. Here is what Schedule 2 actually says.
Read MoreA practical 2026 guide to validating a European patent in Norway: the three-month deadline, the Norwegian claims translation, the NOK 7,150 fee to Patentstyret, annual renewals and why the Unified Patent Court has no say here.
Read MoreHow IP enforcement in Belgium actually works in 2026: the Brussels Enterprise Court, the powerful descriptive seizure, fast injunctions, customs recordal and the Unified Patent Court's Brussels local division.
Read MoreWhat to do when the USPTO mails a Notice of Allowance — the non-extendable issue-fee deadline, the 2026 fees, the IDS and continuation traps, and the five steps that carry your application to grant.
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