What is an IPMS?
An IPMS is an intellectual property management system: the system of record for trademarks, patents, designs, domains and their legal deadlines.
Guides
Reference pages on intellectual property management — what the category is, how to evaluate it, and what changes depending on where you sit. Written to be read once and relied on, unlike the analysis in the blog, which follows the news.
Intellectual property management software
What intellectual property management software does, the forms it is sold in, the products it is confused with, and when an organisation needs one.
Swiss intellectual property management
Managing Swiss intellectual property rights: why Switzerland sits outside the EU systems, what the EPC does and does not cover, and where portfolio data lives.
Independent intellectual property management
What vendor independence means for an intellectual property management system: incentive conflicts, data portability, lock-in and the questions to ask.
How to compare intellectual property management systems
An evaluation framework for comparing IPMS options: data model, docketing rules, audit trail, register reconciliation, deployment and migration.
Intellectual property management for law firms
What a law firm needs from an IPMS that an in-house team does not: client separation, conduct obligations, billing and defensible file records.
Intellectual property management for corporate teams
What an in-house intellectual property team needs from an IPMS: budget visibility, abandonment decisions, invention intake and managing outside counsel.