[Industry Horizon] The international intellectual property service chain shows a two-way deepening trend

2025-07-29

At present, the global intellectual property service field is undergoing structural changes, and the service chain is extending in both directions to "front-end risk prevention and control" and "back-end rights and interests". This evolution stems from the refined upgrading of the intellectual property management needs of innovative entities, which require service institutions to provide forward-looking risk prediction at the confirmation stage and establish agile response capabilities across jurisdictions on the execution side.

CANTOOP notes that with the acceleration of technology iteration and the increase in market uncertainty, right holders are no longer satisfied with the traditional linear service model of "application-protection". In the patent application process, enterprises are paying more and more attention to pre-service services such as free implementation of technology (FTO) analysis and infringement risk assessment, in order to avoid potential conflicts in the early stage of research and development. In the stage of rights and interests protection, more attention is paid to the collaborative efficiency of multinational law enforcement resources, especially for the rapid disposal of new infringement channels such as cross-border e-commerce and social media. This change is driving service institutions to reconstruct the service paradigm: embedding risk control nodes upstream of the innovation chain while strengthening the end-to-end responsiveness of the global execution network.

Industry practice shows that institutions that have successfully adapted to this trend generally adopt a dual-track strategy: build a dynamic monitoring system of technical portraits and patent maps at the front end, and predict potential conflict points through big data; at the back end, relying on the standardized collaboration mechanism, the regional resources of various jurisdictions are integrated. For example, a European medical device company adjusts its patent layout strategy through early infringement warning to avoid infringement disputes after entering the target market; A consumer electronics brand uses the global enforcement network of service providers to achieve unified action against counterfeiting in 15 countries within 72 hours. Such cases highlight the value of full-chain service collaboration.

It is worth noting that this two-way deepening poses new challenges to professional institutions: it is necessary to break the traditional barriers of intellectual property "confirmation" and "rights protection" teams and build a knowledge management system that runs through the whole cycle of innovation; At the same time, it is necessary to balance the relationship between globalization standards and localized implementation to avoid strategy failure due to cultural cognitive differences. Some pioneering institutions have actively responded by setting up "full life cycle management posts" and developing cross-time zone collaborative digital platforms.

The two-way extension of the service chain is essentially the response of the intellectual property industry to the complexity of the innovation ecosystem. When technological progress and market evolution continue to compress the decision-making window, only by establishing a closed-loop capability of "front-end early warning + end-end landing" can we truly become a strategic escort of innovation subjects.