Are Your Patent Alerts Doing More Harm Than Good?
Anyone who has managed IP monitoring at a mid-sized or large tech company knows the drill. Dozens of alerts roll in every week, most of them only loosely relevant, and the genuinely important ones get lost in the shuffle. Teams start skimming subject lines and moving on. Over time, the whole system quietly stops working. The frustrating part is that the technology has never been better. Patent databases today cover hundreds of millions of records across jurisdictions worldwide, and alerts can be configured to run in real time. The infrastructure is solid. The gap is in what happens after the alert lands. Here are some of the most common places monitoring programs fall short: Patent intelligence rarely leaves the legal department. The insights sitting inside competitor filings, like where rivals are investing in R&D and which technology areas are getting crowded, are exactly what product and...