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Intellectual Property (IP) Strategy
Best Intellectual Property (IP) Strategy Company that helps you to develop and execute IP strategies to promote business objectives, protect assets, and fuel growth.
Intellectual Property (IP) Strategy
In today’s business environment, building and maintaining a robust intellectual property (IP) strategy can be the difference between success and failure, between a win and a loss. At My Startup Lawyer, we help companies develop and execute IP strategies to promote business objectives, protect assets, and fuel growth.
Why an IP Strategy Matters
A good IP strategy does more than merely securing patents and trademarks. It’s about planning how you leverage your intellectual property in order to maximize opportunities for value and reduce the risks. A good IP strategy can:
- Boost Competitive Advantages: Protect your innovations and your brand identity, deterring competition and reinforcing your market position.
- Encourage Business Growth: Make sure your IP resources are coherent with your business goals, allowing you to leverage them in support of your growth initiatives.
- Think big and get rich: Identify opportunities for commercializing your IP, such as licensing and partnerships, to unlock additional revenue streams.
- Limit Risks: Mitigate legal and market risks, including infringement and invalidity, in order to protect your assets and save money.
Our Approach to Developing an IP Strategy
Here at My Startup Lawyer we’ll help you build an IP strategy for your startup that works for you and doesn’t overreach your goals. The process will include the following:
Understanding Your Business Goals
A solid IP strategy begins with a clear sense of your business goals and, from there, we work with you to:
- Set Objectives: specifying short-term and long-term goals such as entering new markets, developing new offerings, or enhancing the brand.
- Measure Goals: determine goals for your IP assets – for example, licensure, filing, protection, strategic positioning, commercialization or enforcement – and use these metrics to track progress.
With the IP strategy designed to align with and support your business objectives, your intellectual property assets would be actively exploited to create value and contribute to your company’s general success.
Conducting a Comprehensive IP Audit
In order to grasp where you currently stand, you should definitely consider a thorough IP audit. In our audit, we assess:
- Inventory of IP Assets: List and evaluate all your existing patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets, etc.
- Reassess IP Rights Enforceability: Review your IP and evaluate what rights you have obtained, exercised and enforced. Identify what rights might have been missed or what actions haven’t been taken.
- Analysis of IP Ownership: Verify that ownership rights are clearly held and well-documented, including assignments from employees and third parties.
This audit will show you where you stand in terms of your IP portfolio, so that we can identify weaknesses and potential strategic opportunities.
Developing an IP Protection Strategy
You can’t protect what you don’t know! Part of any IP strategy should include a protection plan, and we will make sure that you are aware of the ways in which you can protect your IP assets, including:
- Filing Strategy: Identify the jurisdictions where patents and/or trademarks should be filed first, taking into account overall market potential and competitive positioning.
- Prescribe scope: Meaningfully prescribe the scope of protection you wish to achieve for your innovations and your brand assets, so that your IP rights are enforced and not diminished by others.
- Monitoring and enforcement: Put in place monitoring procedures for the market for infringements and put in place a mechanism for enforcement of your IP rights via legal action where appropriate.
Your IP assets would be protected from misuse and competitive threats as part of your complete protection strategy.
Identifying Monetization Opportunities
Your IP assets can also serve as potential sources of revenue. We help you find and monetize those opportunities. Those opportunities include:
- Licensing Agreements: Come up with licensing strategies to let others trade on your IP for a royalty or other payment.
- Partnerships and Collaborations: Seize opportunities to build partnerships and collaborations that combine your IP assets with those of others to gain greater market access and financial returns.
- IP Sales: Determine what IP assets are no longer core to your business strategy and could be monetized to drive meaningful capital for your business.
- Monetising your IP will bring in additional revenue and maximize the value of your intellectual property.
Addressing IP Risks and Challenges
Managing these IP risks is essential to protecting your business. We help manage IP risks such as:
- Infringement Risks: Consider the potential consequences, both from the visible and invisible perspectives, of infringement of existing IP rights. This is most often tackled by using freedom-to-operate searches and legal analyses.
- Litigation and Dispute Resolution: Guidance on dealing with IP disputes and litigation and how to enforce your rights.
- Compliance with regulators: Ensure that you are in compliance with all relevant IP laws and local industry standards to avoid any legal issues and to claim the validity of your IP.
By discovering and addressing risks in advance, our proactive approach allows you to take control and prevent the loss of your IP assets.
Tailored IP Strategy for Your Startup
Every startup is different. You need to do things a certain way because the existing IP landscape allows for it, or because it’s going to unblock your growth, or because it’s a good way to make things work. So, while the IP strategy services we provide at My Startup Lawyer are broad in nature, they are never one-size-fits-all. They are tailored to the needs and goals of your startup.
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