Thought leadership.

China is moving from importing technology to creating IP. What stronger Chinese IP enforcement and Made in China 2025 mean for foreign patent owners.

The blockchain patent gold rush mirrors 1850s California. Why early, strategic patent filings will beat the speculative race to the patent office.

Patent law does not recognize AI as an inventor. Why the definition of inventor should change to let AI invention drive patents and progress.

Personal goodwill valuation can bring major tax advantages in a sale. How a trade secret ipScan builds defensible evidence of an owner’s contribution.

Adam Bulakowski on winning in the knowledge economy. Why intangible assets and strong IP systems decide who captures value from innovation.

In this whitepaper, Adam discusses how companies (and countries) with unique, intangible assets and associated capabilities capture more of the value that they create from innovation activities (and remain competitive).

John Cronin, Managing Director and Chairman, Nancy Edwards Cronin, Principal Partner, and Bruce Story, Senior Advisor are among 300 of the world’s pre-eminent IP strategists named in the latest edition of IAM Strategy 300

Highlights from ipCG’s 14th Thought Leadership Conference, The RenAIssance of IP, covering AI patent tools, IP strategy, litigation, and IP finance.

AI improves prior art search quality, removing searcher bias and finding hidden art in tangential domains to support FTO and novelty opinions.

Recap of ipCG’s 13th Thought Leadership Conference on effective innovation, from IP monetization and trade secret programs to AI in invention.

A VC playbook for IP due diligence. Five business questions beyond legal review that reveal the real value of a startup’s technology and patents.

The future of IoT is in the data, security, and integration. Where the biggest intellectual property opportunities in connected devices lie.