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In many organisations, “IP strategy” still gets treated as a specialist topic: something that happens late in the process, sits inside the legal function, and mainly exists to defend inventions after the fact. But in today’s high-growth technology lan ...

The highly succesful Call for IP Subject Matter Experts in Europe got extended throughout 2026 and the IP Business Academy continues to look for IP experts who are supporting the users of the IP system in Europe. The IP Business Academy emerges as a p ...

In the middle of most complex development projects sits a simple commercial truth: teams need options. When a competitor’s patent blocks a promising concept, progress stalls, budgets bleed, and a launch window narrows. Nicos Raftis has built his pract ...

In 2025, we published eight case-study style white-paper posts that collectively map a full digital-marketing and business-development system for IP experts: from how you define what you stand for, to how you become visible, to how visibility turns in ...

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Today, many IP experts are technically brilliant and still misunderstood, underutilized, or brought in too late. Not because their expertise isn’t strong enough, but because it isn’t accessible enough to the people who need to act on it. In a world wh ...

If there is one capability that quietly multiplies the impact of an IP professional, it is disciplined, purposeful networking. Not the random exchange of business cards, but a system that turns relationships into better insight, faster coordination, a ...

Digital communication has become a decisive factor in the professional services sector. Intellectual property is no exception. Patent attorneys, IP consultants, innovation advisors, and specialized service providers increasingly operate in a highly co ...

Trade secrets have become the quiet heavyweights of IP. They are the formulas, process know-how, customer lists, pricing logics and data structures that keep many businesses ahead. But the moment these assets are at stake in court, one brutal reality ...

There are countless books that promise to sharpen your personal brand with better posts, cleaner positioning and a more elegant LinkedIn banner. Integrity by Design by Maria Boicova-Wynants starts somewhere far less glamorous: with the thoughts you en ...