Intellectual property Insights & Updates

An IP-centric company is a business where intellectual property is integrated into every part of the organisation – from product development and marketing, to partnerships, strategy, and investment. Instead of treating patents, trademarks, and designs as legal afterthoughts, IP-driven companies...

Intellectual property (IP) refers to legal rights that protect so-called ‘creations of the mind’. These may, of course, take various forms and include inventions, product designs, brand names, creative works, and confidential business information. The main types of intellectual property...

A freedom to operate (FTO) search helps you determine whether commercialising your invention could infringe someone else’s active patent rights. It focuses on risk, timing, and geography, and is an important step before launching, manufacturing, or selling a new product...

It’s impossible to establish with 100% certainty whether an idea is completely new. However, an early patent search can provide a good indication of whether or not similar inventions already exist. By keeping your idea confidential and reviewing existing patents,...

Prototyping cheaply and easily is about testing your invention without over-investing too early. You don’t need a polished, production-ready product – simple mock-ups, 3D renderings, videos, or low-cost physical models can be enough to validate functionality, refine your invention, and...

Novelty means your idea must be new. In effect, patent novelty is the fundamental requirement that an invention must be new and unique, meaning it hasn’t been publicly known, used, sold, or described anywhere in the world before the patent...