Breaking The Silos: Untangling Intellectual Property Services In A Connected Era

Specialization, at its best, brings depth of understanding and quickness of action. At its worst, tunnel vision sets in and outreach with experts in other fields is quashed. This is when professional hubs become silos; shuttered off from colleagues and partners, the difficulty of moving information in or out of these knowledge repositories undermines much of the contribution their expertise brings.

Intellectual Property (IP) is not immune to this problem. These assets propel progress, yet the services behind their creation and maintenance remain scattered across firms, systems and jurisdictions. Invention disclosure, application filing, portfolio management and enforcement often operate in isolation, each with distinct protocols and providers. In the end, inefficiency between silos along the IP production line obscures and erodes the true economic potential of trademarks, patents, designs and more.