You need to capture value from your intellectual capital and knowledge-based assets.
This involves identifying your company’s intellectual properties and putting in place a process and protocol for protecting and enforcing that IP. Our experienced team will identify your IP and ensure that your ownership rights and right to use third party IP are properly recorded and protected.
We start by performing a comprehensive assessment of your IP portfolio, making sure that we understand the nature and scope of your assets. From there, we can strategize together and make sure your IP assets are being fully optimized to meet your business goals over the coming years.
An IP audit will ensure you have the protections and right to use all third party IP that you need and the correct claims over your products and knowledge. We can also see if your IP portfolio can generate new revenue and competitive advantage that may have been overlooked.
We work with multinational and investment companies — in fields as diverse as fashion, electronics and TMT, energy, and life science — to give a clear picture prior to expansions, mergers or rebrands. We can also advise you on the best way to structure your portfolio to create efficiencies.
Our IP attorneys are highly knowledgeable and many come from specialized industries with technical backgrounds, meaning we can understand the nature of your business immediately. We can also give you on-the-ground, jurisdictional insight that is only possible from an international law firm with a global reach like ours.
Our audits will rejuvenate your intellectual property portfolio and give you a solid foundation to build for the future.
Our global lawyers are experienced in all aspects of IP audits and assessments law. Our recent experience includes:
- supervising trademark and patent audits and performing due diligence as part of corporate M&A, structuring, and restructuring
- performing extensive IP audits on behalf of a financial service firm to assess available IP assets for protection and potential IP risk
- preparing policies and procedures for internal IP coordinators to manage new IP, possible license opportunities, and potential IP controversies
- reviewing key IP license agreements, or joint development agreements with third parties to evaluate IP provisions, and determine if they adequately protect the company’s IP rights including trademarks, patents, trade secrets, and copyright
- reviewing standard non-disclosure/confidentiality agreements to evaluate IP provisions, and determine whether these agreements adequately protect the company’s IP rights including trademarks, patents, trade secrets, and copyrights
- reviewing the company’s website and presence as well as its printed marketing materials to identify any materials which we believe should be registered with one or more global copyright offices
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