Upcoming Webinar: Patent Budgeting for Deep Tech Founders

A practical framework for patent budgeting

Most patent budgets are not budgets at all. They are reactions: pay the invoice when it arrives, stretch the runway when national phase hits, justify the overspend when finance starts asking questions. That is not budgeting. That is crisis management.

This free webinar gives you a realistic, defensible framework for patent budgeting, before grant and after grant. The kind you can use to forecast properly, align IP spend with business value, and avoid uncomfortable surprises with your CFO, board, or investors.

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This webinar is for you if:

• You are building a deep tech company where patents are unavoidable
• You have ever been surprised by a patent invoice

• You need to explain and defend next year’s patent budget to finance or your board
• You want predictable IP spend instead of milestone-driven panic

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What you will learn:

• The real cost to grant: Why early “cheap” filings are misleading and total start-to-grant cost is the only number that matters
• Where the money actually goes: The 4-year path to grant, office actions, drafting costs, and why unpredictability is the real enemy
• The 12- and 30-month cliffs: How PCT and national phase create predictable budget spikes and how to plan for them
• Geographic discipline: Why market coverage should follow revenue, not curiosity, and how to avoid filing everywhere
• Portfolio tiering: How to categorise patents into three tiers to control cost without weakening protection
• Management ownership: Why patent budgeting is a CEO, CFO, and CTO exercise, not something to outsource to your law firm
• Global reality checks: How enforcement and leverage differ in regions such as China, India, and Brazil, and what that means for your spend

By the end of this session, you will understand why most patent budget disasters happen at predictable milestones, why early decisions are often irreversible, and how to build a patent portfolio that is financially stable, strategically aligned, and defensible in any boardroom.

Patent budgeting is not exciting. But handled correctly, it becomes a management discipline instead of a recurring financial shock.
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About the Host‍

‍Ola Wassvik, is a serial entrepreneur and IP strategist who has managed over 300 patent families and raised more than €84 million. Drawing on real world experience advising deep tech founders across funding stages, Ola translates patent theory into clear business decisions you can actually use. This session replaces guesswork with concrete rules of thumb that tie patent spend, portfolio size, and geographic coverage directly to funding, revenue, and go to market reality.

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