Contents

• The Future of In-house Patent Departments
• Introduction: technology beyond patents
• From product competition to technology competition
• Patent portfolios as protection against the unknown
• There will be more reason to use patent portfolios aggressively
• Who owns data?
• Analytics will make it easier to weed out worthless patents
• Paralegals have reason to worry
• Automation will change the client-lawyer relationship
• IP office harmonisation is possible in the next decade
• Tremendous career potential for in-house lawyers
• Conclusion: seeing intellectual property beyond the legal issues
• Action points for in-house patent counsel
• 10 unanswered questions