Advice and consultancy Corporate Expertise
Besides the ‘traditional' services, such as performing trademark and design searches, registering your trademarks, designs and domain names, the monitoring and defence of your rights by means of oppositions and other legal measures (dunning letters), Novagraaf offers you more. With our corporate expertise we can advise you in a broader field.
For example, what can you earn and/or save with your intellectual property? Or, by means of good management, how can you ensure that your company's intellectual property keeps on growing?
For a start, a well-considered and thorough vision of the future with a progressive business plan is of vital importance to you. On top of this, a balanced strategy with respect to the development, positioning, protecting and maintenance of trademarks, designs, domain names and other intellectual property plays an essential role.
As high-level discussion partners, our consultants can assist you with all aspects of the plotting and design of your strategy, if necessary in cooperation with (tax/business-economic) partners.
To start with, ask yourself the following:
- Who within your company is responsible for the management of your intellectual property and is it properly administered?
- Do you know exactly which rights you create, use and possess?
- What have you done to protect your intellectual property?
- Do you know what your competitor does with (your) intellectual property?
- Do you receive the licences that you are entitled to?
- How can you better utilise and exploit your rights?
During the elaboration of your strategy, issues may arise that are associated with:
- Intellectual property (asset) management
- The management and implementation of extensive (worldwide) projects, e.g. transfers of trademarks/designs/domain names and/or name changes of holders as a result of a merger or acquisition
- The formulation and drafting of licensing agreements
- Audits and due diligence on your intellectual property
- The taking of legal measures to counter piracy and counterfeiting
- Tax aspects, for instance during the transfer of intellectual property within an organisation (transfer pricing), as well as the routing of royalty revenues with tax advantages being realised by making use of different tax treaties
- Valuation of intellectual property (brand valuation)
- Interim consultancy
If you would like to know more about our corporate expertise services or want to make an appointment with us to discuss your situation, please contact one of our consultants by calling +44 (0)20 76 08 30 98 or fill in the contact form below.
