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Thriving in an AI-native future only can be assured by upskilling of patent professionals and by redesigning patent-centric workflows and business models to preserve or create value.

IP strategy is business strategy. IP-engaged boards outperform those that treat IP as a back-office technicality fully delegable to IP specialists.

Corporate bed checks persist as a marker of toxicity, frustration, and unfulfilled individual and group potential. Enlightened leaders lead and manage based on empowerment and trust, not control and mistrust. In so doing, they reap rewards for all to enjoy.

Whether you’ve just joined an organization as in-house counsel or been toiling away for a while, you can gain a realistic understanding of your potential for advancement. Six warning signs may indicate that your short- or long-term advancement is unlikely or highly unlikely.

Patrick Lencioni's "The 6 Types of Working Genius" offers powerful insights for diagnosing what may be holding back your legal or IP team, and structuring your team to be impactful and high-functioning.

In its immediate aftermath, team restructuring commonly anoints both winners and losers. Sometimes overlooked are restructuring’s potential insidious, lasting effects on an organization. C-suite executives, organizational leaders, and other relevant decision-makers can leverage the following tips to increase restructuring’s benefits and reduce its human costs and disruptions.

In-house attorneys sometimes compartmentalize their work lives in counterproductive ways. The hit TV show "Severance" offers instructive lessons: A prudent legal professional both serves their current employer with excellence and is active in the wider professional community.

Executive management in organizations should look beyond tactical excellence to ensure that managerial positions in IP and legal teams are held by highly effective managers and leaders. To help assess the effectiveness of an individual as a manager and leader, executives can determine if, and to what extent, the individual operates with a scarcity mindset or an abundance mindset. A manager who operates with an abundance mindset brings substantial benefits to an organization.

Increasingly, small, midsize, and large companies are embracing pragmatic, unconventional ways of addressing internal gaps in...

If you've ever taken ballroom dance lessons or watched Dancing with the Stars , you may know that each dancer in a pair has a respective...

Writing metaphorically about proactive measures in the field of fire safety, Benjamin Franklin penned these words in 1735: " An ounce of...

Leaders who operate according to a scarcity mindset bring underperformance and toxicity to organizations.

Most technology enterprises are well-acquainted with NDAs. On the positive side, they recognize the importance of entering into NDAs with...

In-house legal departments are as varied as the enterprises that encompass them. Given such variability, how can one fairly assess whether an in-house legal department is effective? One useful strategy is to hire a legal consulting firm that can offer a rigorous framework for assessment and comprehensive recommendations for improvement. You also can make an informal assessment yourself.

Technology companies face patent-related decision points around seemingly every corner. The consequences of suboptimal decision-making...

It is almost indisputable that a sound intellectual property (IP) strategy, and effective execution of such a strategy, are essential...

Faced with ever-shrinking budgets and mounting pressure from the C-suite to demonstrate intellectual property (IP) value, many...

Invention harvesting—sometimes also referred to as invention mining, brainstorming, and ideation, among other terms—is a proactive...

CEOs, general counsels, and other senior leaders in a corporation often take a hands-off approach to IP strategy and execution, heavily...

For corporate intellectual property practitioners, the quest to excel can be daunting and all-consuming. Indeed, IP teams and their...