The Filing exists because the intellectual property profession has been chronically under-served by the trade press it reads. The newsletters that cover this work are either thin aggregators of court orders, paywalled tip sheets that protect the institutional sources they depend on, or marketing newsletters from law firms wearing journalistic clothing. None of them, on their own, do the job that a senior practitioner actually needs done — which is to read the field carefully and tell the truth about what it sees.
This publication tries to do that job. Not perfectly, not always, and not without the friction of the firm that publishes it. But honestly, and at a cadence that respects the reader's time.
What we cover
Patents and patent litigation, primarily. Trade marks, designs, and copyright when they intersect meaningfully with patent practice. Standards-essential patents, FRAND, and the global telecom royalty conversation. Indian IP policy and the day-to-day work of the Indian Patent Office. The people who chair the committees, draft the rules, and argue the matters that determine outcomes.
We do not cover IP marketing, vendor announcements, or the conference circuit unless something genuinely consequential is happening at one. We do not chase clicks, and we do not write down to the reader. The audience we have in mind is the IP head of an Indian or multinational corporation, the partner-level practitioner at an IP boutique, the general counsel for whom IP is half the job, and the policy professional who needs the field's pulse without its noise.
How often, in what form
The Filing publishes weekly, on Sundays, as an 8-page tabloid e-paper. Each issue carries a Daily Brief rail, a lead investigative piece, two or three sub-features, a Data Page, the Editorial and Friday Letter, Chambers Notes (cause lists, movement, calendar), and a Field Report on the back page. The current issue is always at thefiling.news. Past issues are in the archive.
Email subscribers receive a Sunday morning notification with a link to the current issue and a one-paragraph editor's note. There are no daily emails. There is no breaking-news push. There is no "five things you need to know this morning." If a story matters, we write it carefully and publish it on Sunday. If it does not matter, we do not write it.
Editorial independence
The Filing is published by Prism IP, an IAM Patent 1000-recognised intellectual property firm based in Gurugram. The firm pays the editor's salary and the cost of producing the publication. The firm exercises no veto over editorial content.
This is a meaningful claim, and it requires meaningful guardrails. We are explicit about three of them.
One. The Filing does not cover Prism IP's own work — its hires, its panel placements, its conference attendance, its case load. If you are looking for news about the publisher, the publisher's own website carries it. We treat Prism IP the way an editorially independent magazine treats its parent group: it is the company that pays the bills, and it does not appear in the journalism.
Two. When The Filing covers a matter in which Prism IP has been instructed — as it occasionally must, given the firm's practice — the relationship is disclosed in the byline or footnote of that piece. The disclosure is not buried in a colophon. It runs alongside the journalism, where the reader can see it.
Three. Editorial decisions are made by the editor, not by the firm's management. If a story would be uncomfortable for the firm to publish, that is not a reason to refrain from publishing it; it is, frequently, a reason to publish it more carefully.
Contributors
From Issue 03 onward, The Filing accepts contributed pieces from senior practitioners, in-house counsel, and policy professionals. The contributor agreement is short and direct: you write a piece on a topic where you have genuine expertise; we edit, occasionally hard; we publish, occasionally decline; you receive byline credit, no payment. The Filing does not publish contributed pieces that are, in substance, marketing for the contributor's firm or company. Contributors who attempt this are told so once. Repeat attempts are not invited back.
If you are interested in contributing, write to editor@thefiling.news with a brief proposal and a sample of your previous published work.
Errors and corrections
We make mistakes. When we make them, we correct them clearly, on the record, with a dated correction note appended to the piece. We do not silently update text. We do not memory-hole errors. The correction note exists because the reader is entitled to know the publication's working method.
If you spot an error, please write to editor@thefiling.news. The line is read by a human within 24 hours.
Letters, leaks, and the wisdom of the field
The Filing reads its mail. Letters to the editor, including correspondence that disagrees with the publication, are welcomed at the same address. We publish a curated selection in the Opinion section of each issue. Letters chosen for publication are edited for length and clarity, but not for substance.
Confidential tips from inside firms, courts, the IPO, and standards bodies are received and protected on a source-confidentiality basis. The Filing does not reveal sources to its publisher, to advertisers, or to any party whose interest is served by knowing them. If you have something the field should know, write to the same address; we will read it and we will be careful.
Who we are
The publication is edited by Satish Rana, founding partner of Prism IP. The editorial desk includes a small group of contributors and field reporters whose work appears under the "Filing Editorial Desk" or "Filing Field Desk" byline. As the publication grows, named bylines will become more frequent. Contributor pieces carry the contributor's own name.
We are based in Gurugram, India. We file from New Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, and Bengaluru when the work requires it, and from London, Munich, and Geneva when it requires that. We write in English. We publish in English. We do not yet have plans for other-language editions, though we may.
How to contact us
- For editorial correspondence, tips, or letters: editor@thefiling.news
- For contributor proposals: the same address, with "Contribution" in the subject line
- For corrections: the same address, with "Correction" in the subject line
- For everything else: the same address. We have, at present, one address. It will scale when it must.
— Established April 2026 —