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The journey to developing a world class IP strategy will vary from company to company and we leverage a wide range of skills and resources to serve our customers.
We offer best practice intellectual property consulting across all phases of the IP lifecycle. Our team of highly experienced and well connected IP specialists bring together a wealth of knowledge and experience from working in house at some of the world’s most renowned and IP savvy companies. Our ethos is to share our knowledge and experience, helping companies of all size and industry to develop and implement best practice IP processes and IP management that has a meaningful impact on the their business.
Our approach is highly commercial and each project is tailored to help our customers succeed in developing an IP strategy that demonstrates meaningful value within their organisations.

We do IP
licensing support

Relationships start
at many levels
The management and licensing of the different forms of intellectual property (patents, trademarks, copyrights, design rights, trade names en trade dress as well as secret know how) can be important to the success of the business that invents or creates a product, to manufacturers, to the designers that configure or refine a product’s appearance and to the producers of packaging and marketing literature and materials.
Patents have long been a strategic asset
in attempts to protect market share and key proprietary technologies. Patents have also become a new source of sought after revenues for technology companies and a key measure for corporate valuation by the investment community. Licensing those key proprietary technologies is an effective way to achieve added returns on a company’s investment in the development of IP and maximize licensing valuations.
The licensing process
requires expertise in formulating a strategy for managing a company’s IP, the appraisal of relevant internal and external technologies, and in the negotiation process to finalize agreements that achieve the desired strategic and financial goals associated with a licensing program. We also provide related services such as technical and negotiating support for in-licensing activities.


We do IP StartUPs support


The legal rights obtained through formal registration can be both an asset and a liability at the same time. The legal rights can become a financial liability, particularly over the passage of time, as the rights can become disconnected with the company’s strategy and product lines, which usually happens in start-up companies. Without a proactive approach to value creation, market opportunities to maxims value for star-ups can pass. We understand however that achieving a successful IP investment, sale or licensing deal is a challenging process where specialist skills, networks and relationships are required. provides IP brokers and guidance for those wishing to secure a deal or gain market access.
M&A transactions and investments in start-up businesses increasingly now involve substantial intangible assets to be traded. Both sides in the transaction wish to recognise where the value resides and achieve a fair recognition. This factor, leads to best practice due diligence, where the intangible assets are captured early in the process to both recognise fair value but to also enable theThe legal rights obtained through formal registration can be both an asset and a liability at the same time. The legal rights can become a financial liability, particularly over the passage of time, as the rights can become disconnected with the company’s strategy and product lines, which usually happens in start-up companies. Without a proactive approach to value creation, market opportunities to maxims value for star-ups can pass. We understand however that achieving a successful IP investment, sale or licensing deal is a challenging process where specialist skills, networks and relationships are required. provides IP brokers and guidance for those wishing to secure a deal or gain market access.


We do IP Advisory Work



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We have extensive experience in managing an intellectual property portfolios. Through this experience we worked with our consultants as well as third party experts to analyze the portfolio, drafted claim charts, drew up marketing materials and formulated a successful sales strategy. Regularly “IP management” is being seen as a back-office type of facility that focuses on more administrative tasks (e.g. maintaining the portfolio by paying taxes, administer rights, draw up transfer documentation etc.) However we see IP Management in a much wider perspective, that includes a coherent approach to the sales and marketing of large IP portfolios, from technical analysis, EOU analysis, claim charting and drafting of marketing materials.
Intangible assets come in various forms, including an organization’s patent portfolio, proprietary systems and methods, client relationships, product and service brands, IP strategy is an integral part of an overall business strategy that uses IP rights to manage technology. IPR systems fulfill four purposes:
/ providing incentives for innovation
/ allowing for the packaging of intellectual assets into innovative processes
/ encouraging the diffusion of technical information
/ enabling the capturing of added value (economic and or social) through the control of intellectual assets
Alongside plant breeders’ rights, patent rights have entered the plant breeding domain in the past two decades. Traits built into plant varieties, but also certain processes, can be protected by means of patent rights. This enables the patent holder to lay exclusive claims to genetic material and shield certain genetic building blocks from use by others. The patent holder does have the power, though, to grant licenses to other breeders. We have a long history of advising companies in this industry on IP policies and strategies to maintain competitiveness in a fast changing intellectual property environment.
We do not stop where engineers have delivered their analysis. Our consultants combine the findings of the technical (engineering) team with valuable business and IP practice intelligence. We are more than happy to provide you with a more specific quote for such TD or RE services, combined with timing, and deliverables that we can offer. For more information please provide details and we will send you a personalized offering and price quote.

We do IP renewals

Our renewal
services
provide a highly cost effective mechanism for managing the annuity payments required for the
different forms of IP. Our team undertake all formalities and provide a confidential, comprehensive
service for patent, design and trade mark renewals, liaising with clients and our renewals agent, to
ensure that all critical deadlines are met and that formalities are correctly completed and recorded.
We have
established
procedures
systems and processes in place for sending out reminders to our clients and ensuring that our
renewals agent is properly instructed on a monthly basis as and when required. Our paralegals
provide information showing renewal fee deadlines with estimated costs for cases from all
jurisdictions, allowing efficient administration of renewal instructions to the highest standard on a
cost effective basis.
On occasion our clients prefer to defer renewal payments for cash flow and other reasons and our
systems provide an efficient and effective process for managing overdue renewal fee notices from
the national offices.
Our clients
For clients that have large patent portfolios, our systems and databases allow for forecasting of
annuity payments which facilitates budgeting and cost control.
Finaly, we provide competitive rates for maintenance fees and provide insight when costs are to be
expected as part of the strategic IP management advice.

We do IP Brokerage

Acquisition of IP, especially patents, is hot issue. Hence we partner with other
renowned IP brokerage firms to identify relevant IP where this strategy is of
benefit. We do also assist companies and R&D institutes in finding proper
markets for their IP. Most of our consultants have extensive experience in
advising companies to build an effective and strategic IP acquisition strategy.
Technical expertise on nanotechnology, functional additives, polymers, mobile
technology, semiconductor, pharma and medtech is provided through our most
senior engineers.
We work very close with a team of engineers from Europe with extensive
knowledge and experience to identify, patents, provide claim charts and provide
Evidence of Use.


We do IP Valuation



Patents, Trademarks, Copyrights and Know How are your most valuable assets, We help to validate your IPRs. Intellectual Property is the new asset class. A company may want to capitalize on the potential benefits of its IP assets and extract their full value is by valuating its IP. As professional IP consultants we conducted several valuations.
In some cases we seek access to resources in conducting an IP audit where the expertise requires specialize knowledge. Our services entail identifying, monitoring, valuing a company’s IP assets so as to make sure that the company is making the most out of their IP assets. By doing so, a company is able to make informed decisions when it comes to:

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Knowledge of a company’s intellectual property and of its value will assist in deciding which type of IP rights to acquire and maintain, and how best to manage the IP assets of a company.
Good knowledge of what IP assets a company owns can lead to a significant increase in the corporate value. Investors value a company on the basis of their expectations of future profits, e.g. in the case of biotech, is based on the potentials of their IP rights.
Licensing a company can increase its cash flow (revenue) by licensing out its IP rights. An IP audit will assist in determining the value of a company’s own IP for maximum benefit from license agreements. Licensing revenue not only increases the market value of a company, it also provides alternative financing for R&D efforts.
Collateral a well-structured IP portfolio may be used as collateral in financial transactions. IP assets will determine credit worthiness of a company.
knowing the value of IP assets will assist a company in strategic decisions on enforcement (infringement actions against competitors etc).
a well managed IP audit and IP inventory management will help identify obsolete IP assets (thus enabling to cut-down asset maintenance costs for such intellectual property) and avoid infringing third party IPRs, which in turn will lead to a reduction in costs.