Advice and consultancy Intellectual property protection; protect your patents, trade marks, designs and copyright
Your intellectual property is one of the most important cornerstones of your company. Consequently, it is of vital importance that your technology and know how, trade names, logos, packaging, domain names and products are protected effectively and enforced vigorously.
The value of your intellectual property is determined by:
- the way in which you manage its protection and enforcement;
- the way in which you develop goodwill in the market with your technology and know how, marks, domain names and products, all of which translate into financial added value to your company.
- the way in which you commercialise your intellectual property
To effectively manage the protection and enforcement of all your intellectual property, you need to know what you have, where it is protected and what it is protected for. You need to be constantly reviewing your portfolio of assets to see that they are still fit for purpose and updating, renewing and discarding assets on a regular basis, but you need to do that in a cost and time efficient manner. You need the right tools and advice to be available to you when needed.
Once you have the necessary tools and advice in place, you can also look at developing commercial opportunities from your intellectual property by licensing others to use your intellectual property.
For your intellectual property to generate added value, it is essential to employ the most appropriate strategy combined with comprehensive and cost-effective management of all your intellectual property. Novagraaf understands that the management and exploitation of your intellectual property forms an essential part of your business, but that you are also concerned with other operational aspects too. With our dedicated IT tools and intellectual property expertise, we can help you protect, enforce and manage your intellectual property to get the maximum value from your portfolio.
Your intellectual property must be part of the whole picture
We can fully tailor the management of your intellectual property to suit the nature of your business and your objectives. You will have access to our specialist dedicated IT tools:
- EasyIP is an online web portal for managing your trade marks, designs, domain names and patents
- TMWebscan is an application for monitoring the use and misuse of your trade marks on the internet.
Novagraaf attorneys will be happy to talk to you about the strategy to be pursued and the steps to be taken to protect and use your intellectual property. You can reach us by telephone on +44 (0)20 7608 3098 or contact us using the form below.
