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Sonja London Receives IPR Person of the Year Recognition
On 27 March 2026, Sonja London, founder of Fearless IP, received the IPR Person of the Year award from the IPR University Center at the Annual Finnish IPR Gala. The recognition honours her long-standing contribution to intellectual property strategy, licensing and commercialisation across more than two decades.
Licensing and Litigation, Do You Have to Sue to Succeed?
A brief guide consolidates practical guidance for licensing programme managers, general counsels, and corporate IP leaders seeking to convert intellectual property into sustainable commercial value while aligning enforcement stance to business priorities.
Making Licensing Tangible – Follow-Up: What Implementers Experience in SEP Licensing
This follow-up article continues the discussion on SEP licensing from an implementer’s perspective. It explores key tensions in SEP negotiations, including how implementers assess FRAND offers, evaluate patent portfolios, and manage licensing risks across the supply chain.
Licensing as a Strategic Signal: What is Your Message to the Market
Licensing is more than a revenue generating business. It is a deliberate message to competitors, partners and investors about how you manage risk, value and growth. Choose the signal you send.
What Implementers Should Do When Approached for SEP Licensing – SEP Licensing for Implementers
For many companies, the first real encounter with Standard Essential Patent licensing happens when a letter or email arrives from a patent owner or licensing program. It can be unsettling: legal language, royalty demands, and references to technical standards you may not even be fully aware your products or services rely on. Yet if they use connectivity, video, or other standardized technologies, chances are that at some point, a licensor will reach out.
Sonja London Appointed Chair of the Board at Helsinki Innovation Services Ltd
On 1 October 2025, changes were made to the Board of Helsinki Innovation Services Ltd (HIS), the technology transfer and commercialisation company fully owned by the University of Helsinki. With deep expertise in technology transfer and the IP sector, the renewed Board is tasked with increasing the impact and market reach of research-based inventions originating from the University.
2025: Fearless IP Finds Its Place in Making World-Class IP Monetisation Tangible
In 2025, our founder Sonja London was able to dedicate her focus to building Fearless IP and bringing her decades of in-house experience to companies ready to take their IP assets to another level.
This year, Fearless IP established its place in the world of IP strategy and licensing.
Technology Licensing vs Patent Licensing: What’s the Difference?
When companies talk about licensing, the terms technology licensing and patent licensing often get blurred together. Both are about giving another party the right to use something valuable, but they operate in very different ways.
Understanding the difference is not just a legal detail. It can define whether a licensing strategy works, whether it brings in meaningful revenue, and whether the licensee can actually use what they have paid for.
Making Licensing Tangible – What Makes Technology Licensable?
Not every technology can, or should, be licensed. But when licensing is on the table, one key question always comes up: Is this technology actually licensable?
In this article I go through what traits can make technology licensable in the first place. It’s not just about how good your invention is. It’s about how complete, protected, usable, and relevant it is—for someone else.
What a Global Telco Learned About SEP Value – And What You Can Too
Intellectual property is a critical lever for competitive advantage and long-term value creation. Yet, even enterprises with substantial R&D legacies frequently fail to extract the full economic potential of their portfolios. Standard Essential Patents illustrate this challenge. These assets, fundamental to industry standards, may remain underexploited, their licensing value hidden by complexity and inattention.
This blog examines the case of a global telecommunications leader that systematically activated dormant SEP assets.