PerspireIP Blog
Expert perspectives on intellectual property strategy, patent law, trademark protection, and IP portfolio management from the PerspireIP team.
How 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.
Read MoreAn attorney-written guide to filing a patent in Norway — the national route through Patentstyret, the PCT national phase, validating a European patent, and where Norwegian patents are enforced.
Read MoreAn attorney-written guide to trademark registration in Finland — the PRH's 2026 fees, the clearance search that matters, the relative-grounds examination, the two-month opposition window, and renewals.
Read MoreAn attorney-written guide to entering the PCT national phase in Finland — the 31-month deadline, the direct PRH route versus the Euro-PCT route, translations, fees and what happens if you miss it.
Read MoreAn intent-to-use application generates seven hard dates before it ever becomes a registration, and all seven are computed from one anchor most dockets record as a note rather than a date. Get the anchor wrong and every downstream deadline is wrong by the same margin.
Read MoreHow buyers actually price a patent portfolio inside an acquisition — the three valuation approaches, purchase-price allocation, and how diligence findings move the number.
Read MoreScale is the drawing requirement most often misread as a matter of taste. Under 37 CFR 1.84(k) it is a hard reproduction test, and failing it costs you a sheet you have already paid to prepare.
Read MoreA step-by-step guide to validating a European patent in Finland: the deadline, Finnish claims translation, PRH renewal fees and the UPC Helsinki division.
Read MoreAn attorney-written guide to entering the PCT national phase in Denmark — the 31-month deadline, the direct DKPTO route versus the Euro-PCT route, translations, fees and what happens if you miss it.
Read MoreSix of the seven dates a post-registration audit creates are conditional, and none of them is derived from the registration date. A docket that holds only the Section 8 window shows a clean calendar on the day the registration is cancelled.
Read MoreThe data behind AI patent filing trends in 2026 — how fast GenAI patenting is growing, who is filing, where the filings originate, and what it means for your strategy.
Read MorePlant patent applications are the one place in U.S. practice where color figures are required rather than grudgingly permitted. Here is what 37 CFR 1.165 actually demands.
Read MoreWhere patent litigation in Finland is heard, how infringement and validity are decided together, and how the Market Court and the Helsinki UPC division now give patentees two forums to choose between.
Read MoreA practical, attorney-written guide to how to file a patent in Finland in 2026 — the PRH national route, the European and PCT alternatives, language rules, real fees, and when a utility model beats a patent.
Read MoreSeven of the nine dates this proceeding creates produce no incoming document and no client instruction. They exist only if the docket derives them from the registration date.
Read MoreIn semiconductor deals the patent estate is the asset. Here is the due-diligence checklist that separates a clean portfolio from an expensive surprise.
Read MoreDesign patent drawing broken lines define claim scope, not decoration. The 7 rules under 37 CFR 1.152 and MPEP 1503.02 that examiners really enforce.
Read MoreWhat Berne Convention copyright actually gives you — automatic protection in 182 countries, national treatment, minimum terms — and where it stops short.
Read MoreA practical guide to how to file a patent in Japan — the three routes into the JPO, the deadlines that catch foreign filers, translation rules and enforcement.
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