Tag: Patent Workflow Automation

When a big company knocks on your door and says they want to talk about FRAND, things get serious very fast. One wrong email. One weak agenda. One missing document. And suddenly you are not negotiating anymore. You are reacting. That is how founders lose leverage before the first call even starts. This guide exists…

Standards change. Quietly at first. Then all at once. One year, your technology fits the standard perfectly. The next year, a small update rolls out, and suddenly your patent no longer lines up the way you thought it did. Nothing broke. No warning sirens. But the value of your Standard Essential Patent just slipped. This…

Let’s get straight to it. If you are building something new, the size of your license matters just as much as the idea itself. Choose too small, and you box yourself in. Choose too big, and you may waste time, money, and leverage you did not need to give up. This choice can shape your…

If you own standard-essential patents, you already know this truth: the value is not just in having patents. The value is in keeping the right ones alive, clean, and ready to be enforced or licensed at the exact moment they matter. Most SEP portfolios do not fail because the tech is weak. They fail because…

If you are building real tech, not slides, not hype, but actual systems that talk to other systems, then standard setting groups already affect you. Even if you have never heard of them. Even if you never planned to deal with them. The moment your product touches wireless, networking, video, hardware, or core software, you…

Let’s start with the truth most founders never hear early enough. If your product touches standards like 5G, Wi-Fi, video, or codecs, you are already on someone’s radar. Not because you did something wrong. Not because you copied anyone. Simply because standards attract patents, and patents attract money. This article is about a quiet but…

If you build products that use standard tech, you already live in a world of rules. You may not like them. You may not think about them every day. But they are there, and they can hurt you if you ignore them. This article is about one thing only: how simple, steady record-keeping can protect…

When a company builds technology that becomes part of a global standard, patents turn into power. But they also turn into pressure. FRAND disputes sit right at that pressure point. They decide who gets paid, how much, and how fast. They can shape the future of a startup or quietly drain it dry. Most founders…

Standards shape almost every modern product. Phones talk to towers. Cars talk to roads. Software talks to hardware. None of this works without shared rules, called standards. And behind many of those standards sit patents. These are called standard-essential patents, or SEPs. If you build tech that touches a standard, SEPs are part of your…

If you build real tech, you will run into standards. And if you run into standards, you will run into SEPs. Standard Essential Patents sound scary, expensive, and unavoidable. Most founders assume they must accept them as fact and just pay up. That belief is wrong. SEP essentiality can be challenged, and strong companies do…