Gernot Grober | Head of IP AT&S What do patents really achieve—and how can companies secure the technological fields of tomorrow in time? We discussed exactly this question with our customer AT&S. Securing the Future, Not the Present The key insight: a strategic patent does not protect the present, but the future. It is about securing technological spaces early on to ensure future freedom to operate.  One patent alone is rarely enough. A small, carefully built core of several