The network behind the portfolio
External firms write most of your patents. So who decides which firm writes the ones that matter most? In most companies, nobody does. The network has grown through acquisitions, jurisdictions, and habit, and every firm is engaged the same way. That quietly caps the quality of the entire IP strategy. The portfolio has a strategy. The network that builds it deserves one too. This article shows how leading IP functions manage their network the way they manage the portfolio itself, through four principles and three case stories. It ends with six questions most Heads of IP find hard to answer.
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