Are you making the most of your intellectual property?
You may have valuable intellectual property (IP) that you're not even aware of, or that isn't as securely protected as it could be. When you're busy building a company, IP is something that's easily neglected. Yet a healthy IP portfolio could greatly increase the strength and value of your business.
Ask yourself : Are your existing rights working as hard for you as they could? Are your resources appropriately focused on the key rights? Do you know what rights your competitors have? Are your staff aware of your IP and how to handle it? Is your IP strategy consistent with your overall business plans? And when did you last review it...?
Special offer IP audit
For a fixed price agreed with you beforehand, we will visit your company and help you to carry out a basic, no-obligations IP audit. This involves identifying the rights you have, advising on how best to protect them, advising on the management of existing registrations (patents, trade marks, designs), reviewing your overall IP strategy - including in light of your competitors' positions - and providing recommendations on general good practice so as to maximise IP benefits and minimise the associated risks.
The audit can be focused if you wish on particular types of rights (eg, trade marks) or a particular business area.
We make no charge for discussing the scope of the audit and providing you with a quotation.
Education
We also offer in-house seminars for your staff, covering basic IP awareness and good practice. These may be formal presentations, informal discussion groups or "surgeries" for specific IP queries.
"Interfacing Chemistry with Patents" - an introductory course
In collaboration with Scientific Update we provide 2-day courses entitled "Interfacing Chemistry with Patents". These give an introduction to the patent system specially tailored for scientists and their managers in the chemical industry. Please contact either Scientific Update or Greaves Brewster LLP if this is of interest to your company.
