Regardless of the industry or size of the company, an intellectual property (IP) strategy should be integrated into and advance business goals. The IP strategy then governs how IP processes are implemented in day-to-day activities, such as innovation, marketing, third-party collaborations, M&A activity, or simply staying ahead of your competitors. With organized IP processes, understanding your IP position will be clearer, decision-making will be quicker, and working with IP counsel will be more efficient. Let us help you to start illuminating your IP strategy, and the processes that support it, today.
IP Strategy Development
We work with you to build an internal team having expertise in your business plans (including marketing and business development), competitor intelligence, research & development (R&D), and IP. We then guide the team as they determine the IP strategy that would bring the most value while achieving the business goals.
Innovation & IP Protection
While collaborating with your IP counsel, R&D, and marketing, we develop plans for promoting innovation and establish the process for determining how best to protect your IP in accordance with your IP strategy and business goals.
Infringement Risk Mitigation
With assistance from R&D and marketing, we learn your product development pipeline and marketing timeline. Your IP counsel’s input is then incorporated to devise systematic ways for requesting and conducting searches for third-party IP rights and providing clearance assessments while implementing your current software capabilities.
Competitor Intelligence
We orchestrate a group of your R&D, marketing, sales, business development, finance, and IP representatives to establish a team charter for carrying out competitor intelligence activities in line with your IP strategy and business goals.
IP Enforcement
Working with your R&D, marketing, sales, finance, and IP representatives, we contemplate acts of infringement and how they most affect your business, and with the advice of your IP counsel, draft a policy for enforcing your IP rights against third parties.
M&A Support
We help you with the difficult task of organizing and preparing IP assets for presentation to your IP counsel prior to diligence in a sale or divestiture of a business. After an acquisition, we partner with your R&D representative and IP counsel to integrate the new business into your IP processes, ensuring compliance with your IP strategy along the way.
