{"id":1173,"date":"2026-06-23T10:00:38","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T08:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/seemann-ip.com\/?p=1173"},"modified":"2026-06-23T10:01:33","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T08:01:33","slug":"patent-costs-in-2026-how-founders-start-ups-and-smes-can-plan-their-intellectual-property-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seemann-ip.com\/en\/journal\/patent-costs-in-2026-how-founders-start-ups-and-smes-can-plan-their-intellectual-property-strategy\/","title":{"rendered":"Patent costs in 2026: How founders, start-ups, and SMEs can plan their intellectual property strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why intellectual property rights are more than just paperwork &#8211; <\/p>\n<p>When coming up with an innovation, people tend to think first and foremost about development, the market and financing. Intellectual property rights are rarely a priority. However, patents, utility models, trade marks and designs are crucial tools for building negotiating power, convincing investors and measurably increasing a company\u2019s value.<\/p>\n<p>For entrepreneurs, start-ups and SMEs, the main question is whether the investment in intellectual property rights is worthwhile and what costs are involved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/seemann-ip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/seemann-ip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/seemann-ip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seemann-ip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seemann-ip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1173"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/seemann-ip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1181,"href":"https:\/\/seemann-ip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1173\/revisions\/1181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seemann-ip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seemann-ip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seemann-ip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}