For most in-house IP teams, the docket, prosecution history, and strategic rationale behind every filing lives at the firm. This panel names the five categories of institutional knowledge your team doesn’t own when that’s the case, what it costs, and how to create a different arrangement.
Filing volume is up and search tools are faster — which means the landscape your team cleared is getting crowded again. This panel covers how lean in-house teams are building continuous FTO monitoring into their existing workflows, what triggered each panelist to move from periodic to ongoing review, and where AI is and isn’t doing the work reliably.
Most disclosure processes are built around what IP needs to evaluate an invention — not around what makes it easy for an inventor to submit one. This panel covers how three corporate IP teams redesigned their intake processes to meet inventors where invention happens, and what changed about both volume and quality when they did.
When the cost of a patent application drops by an order of magnitude, the question stops being what you can afford to file and becomes what you should file. This session covers what outside counsel relationships look like when drafting gets cheaper, how FTO strategy changes when search is faster, and what early-stage companies should actually be spending their IP budget on now.
Investors are using AI to read patent landscapes, and sophisticated ones are asking portfolio questions that most IP teams aren’t ready to answer in the room. This panel covers what the due diligence conversation looks like now, how to build the story your portfolio needs to tell, and why 6-12 months before a fundraise is when the preparation has to start.