Since early 2025, PTAB practice has shifted from routine patent defense to a more selective, time-sensitive strategy. IPR remains one of the strongest tools for challenging patent claims, but Q1
Most Freedom to Operate search failures don’t happen because the analyst missed an obvious patent. They happen because the analyst applied the wrong mental model to the job entirely. An
You run the AI search. The tool returns 40 references in under two minutes. The top results look relevant. The technology domain aligns. The concept matches. You feel like the
Of the 800-plus SEP invalidation searches GreyB completed in the past year, the decisive prior art came from outside patent databases in most cases. The key evidence often did not
A licensor walks into a Cat-M1 negotiation citing 2,000 declared LTE families. The implementer across the table does not dispute the number. Instead, they ask a different question: how many
Fifty-one proceedings in March 2026. The number alone is the first signal worth reading. By the time these petitions were filed, Director Squires had centralized institution decisions, removed diagnostic reasoning
Of the 36,166 Change Requests submitted to 3GPP for 5G-Advanced, 45.6% are concentrated in the technologies most critical to 6G. Yet only 21.9% of declared SEP families cover these same
As healthcare budgets across Europe remain under pressure, 2026 marks an important turning point. Multiple high-cost medicines are scheduled to lose regulatory exclusivity, enabling future price competition and expanded patient
The evolution of 5G has entered a new phase, one defined not just by faster speeds but by intelligence, adaptability, and cross-domain integration. As 5G-Advanced continues to mature through 2026,
Key insights: Apple’s iPhone 17 launch quietly confirmed a turning point for Wi-Fi 7. By explicitly calling out Multi-Link Operation (MLO), a core feature of the standard, the launch signaled
In the chemical domain, freedom-to-operate (FTO) risk extends far beyond what is immediately visible from a product’s composition or a process flow diagram. Unlike mechanical or electronic inventions, where infringement
As the world transitions into the metaverse, 8K streaming, and autonomous systems, the demand for a codec more powerful than H.266/VVC is no longer a distant vision. It’s an immediate
As 6G standardization takes shape, the landscape is already showing signs of fragmentation. 6G Core: Telecom vs. Non-Telecom Who is Leading the Future Standards? 3GPP Contribution Split: The convergence of
In 2025, 98 drugs across Europe will lose market exclusivity, opening multi-billion-euro opportunities for generic and biosimilar manufacturers. These expirations span oncology, immunology, neurology, infectious diseases, and veterinary medicine, setting
Traditional Boolean-heavy methods, when performing Freedom to Operate (FTO) search, once served well, but they now feel like hand tools in a power-tool era. Spending hours crafting Boolean strings, reviewing
Artificial Intelligence has transformed intellectual property (IP) by reducing human effort and enabling patent experts to refine their methods for discovering, analyzing, and leveraging intellectual property. It’s no surprise that