However, regardless of their size or the sector they operate in, the one thing all our clients have in common is they understand the enormous value IP adds to their business.
Working together we will ensure you fully protect and exploit your IP, so it adds even more value to your business. Together we can review and revise your IP strategy to make sure it is always totally aligned with your business plan and supports your commercial objectives.
And of course, like you, our attorneys want to work with the very best people – so they can establish mutually beneficial, long-term working relationships with clients who take IP just as seriously as they do.
How do we help fast-growing start-ups?
At the beginning of a business’ life intellectual property protection can be a bit of a quandary. You know you need protection but on the other hand, resources are tight. You don’t want to spend money unnecessarily, at least not until your idea is ready to deliver a return.
The only problem is, getting so close without protection places your most valuable ideas at significant risk of being copied, stolen, or blocked.
Your attorney will help you balance your business needs with the available budget to provide you with the protection and advice you need to ensure you can successfully deliver your business plan.
How do we help SMEs?
SMEs are the engine room of the economy. They are key to financial growth and job creation and their success is hugely dependent on their ability to keep innovating.
However, if SMEs are going to keep innovating, they need to be able to do so safely.
Innovating safely requires the support of attorneys who know how to:
- Protect your ideas and inventions against being imitated or misappropriated
- Make sure you can deliver on the commercial contracts and licences you need to put in place
- Keep you free to partner with who you need to achieve your ambitions
Our attorneys will provide the drafting, filing, and prosecution services you need to protect your IP. They will also share all the expertise they have built up during their careers so you can achieve the strongest market position, derive the maximum return from your innovations and satisfy any investors you may need to scale-up or break new markets.
On the surface corporates appear to hold many advantages over smaller companies. On paper corporates will have larger budgets, larger resources and more established relationships and distribution channels. However, they will also often have their own set of issues to tackle.
With a larger market share, greater market demand and global coverage, the likelihood of competition and – by extension – the need to protect your products more forcefully increases.
Similarly, with competitors snapping at your heels, the need to innovate more quickly and capitalise on new opportunities increases, particularly under the watchful eye of your shareholders.
At the same time, ensuring your IP filing strategies continue to support your commercial objectives and monitoring possible infringements can quickly eat up the available resources.
This is where we can help.
Our attorneys can become your IP team and provide not only assistance in protecting and defending your innovations, but also a much wider and valuable commercial perspective. In addition to all the drafting, filing, and prosecution services you would expect from a full-service IP firm, our attorneys can:
- Help you review and refresh your IP strategy so it continues to support your business objectives
- Help your R&D teams identify and analyse the innovation present in their work, so you can protect your R&D investment.
- Audit your IP portfolio to make sure all your relevant assets are fully protected and highlight any gaps that need protection or IP rights that are no longer of value
- Review the patent landscape around your technology, so you are fully aware of what your competitors are doing and you can spot potential gaps in the market.
At the highest level, our attorneys can provide extra capacity to in-house IP departments. They can work on either a long-term/outsourced basis or on an ad-hoc arrangement to support your team as and when needed.
Our experienced attorneys can handle any type of work, including: drafting patent specs, writing OA responses, preparing oppositions, reviewing search results – in fact, anything you don’t have time to do. You can hand work over and relax, safe in the knowledge that some one just as qualified, able and diligent as yourself is taking care of it.
And our attorneys will adapt how they work to match how you work – from following your processes and implementing your quality requirements, to drafting specs in your in-house style and using your templates.