How the market is evolving for IP attorneys By Jerome Doraisamy|11 February 2021 Intellectual property practitioners are able to be at the “forefront of innovation”, and with the age of coronavirus accelerating certain trends, there are new market segments opening up for those in this space. The position of IP practitioners in the value chain, Matthew Yeates told Lawyers Weekly, is to be there at the very early stages of technology development, and growing them with partners and R&D teams. As such, patent attorneys are “at the forefront of knowledge management and the capture of this”, he proclaimed. This, he said, is a clear opportunity to assist clients in integrating commercial pathways for their IP.