Support and advice in planning and implementing intellectual property strategy and legal protection of copyrights, trade secrets, trademarks, designs and patents.
We will guide you through the benefits and limitations of each type of protection and choose the one that best suits you.
The IP protection strategy often requires thinking “outside the box” and finding a foothold, sometimes with an unconventional inspection of the product or concept you conceived and developed. This can be likened to a kind of “key” (the same part of your invention that will be most strongly protected) that prevents the entire invention from being used.
We will help you, through brainstorming, to locate this aspect and find ways to protect it, all of course taking into account the resources at your disposal.
We handle the registration of trademarks and designs (patterns), and in appropriate cases we will be happy to refer you to a patent attorney for the purpose of drafting and filing a patent application, a form of protection whose costs are relatively high, after an external objective examination of the feasibility of doing so and the right stage to do so.
When registering a trademark, we will recommend a choice that takes into account the legal strength of the mark you have chosen, while trying to find a strong brand from both a marketing and legal point of view.
We will assist you in finding ways to maximise the value in your intellectual property and accompany you in its commercialization, whether by way of setting up a venture, licensing agreements (authorization to use the intellectual property in exchange for royalties), commercial sale of the intellectual property rights or manufacturing, marketing and distributing the products that are the subject of the intellectual property. In all of these, we have accumulated diverse international experience over decades of activity, which we would be happy to share with you.
In addition, if necessary, we will assist you in protecting your intellectual property in the event of an infringement.
Signing a confidentiality agreement (NDA) is a preliminary step to other legal protections and sometimes also a layer in itself in protecting intellectual property. Many times, the undertaking must be adapted to the special circumstances of the case in such a way that on the one hand, it will adequately protect the owner of the intellectual property and on the other hand, it will allow the party making the undertaking to sign, despite his apprehension of restrictions imposed on him in his field of business. We have accumulated a wealth of experience in successfully negotiating and closing confidentiality undertakings, even with large global corporations.
