No more filing
Intellectual property is the ‘new’ black. These days you can hardly open a business publication without reading about the importance of IP to a business and the value it can add.
The ‘take home’ message typically seems to be, to protect your IP at your peril!’
And, by ‘protection’, the articles recommend filing applications for registered protection.
As a consequence, IP lawyers and patent attorneys appear to have garnered a somewhat unsavoury reputation for themselves; that of money-grabbing, filing monkeys, whose sole purpose is to encourage clients to embark down the costly patent protection pathway with scant regard for strategy and value add.
For the avoidance of doubt, this isn’t one of those articles.