IP Management and Strategy
As your dedicated IP advisor, CreateIP will ensure all bases are covered at all times. The value added services we provide include:
- IP Audit to identify all your registered and unregistered IP
- Up-to-date IP Schedules to track the IP you own and the various stages that the IP is at, and identify key deadlines
- IP Strategy & Review to set and document IP policy and procedures across your organisation, or just to review a specific project or projects.
- Management Reporting on IP matters and recommended actions
- Budgeting and tracking of IP expenses, querying bills where the amount is unexpected, and approving bills where third parties are instructed
- Assigning our IP to others
- IP training for staff and selected third parties contracted by you to conduct research and development; this helps to identify new IP and to raise the level of awareness generally
- IP protocols with the innovation process to ensure that key deadlines are not missed i.e. ensuring that ideas are not inadvertently disclosed before a decision regarding rotection is made
- Due diligence of IP portfolios for acquisitions and sale/licensing of IP, and advising management of any IP issues.
• Patent Searching & Pre-Filing Assessment
• Drafting and Filing a Patent Specification
• Trade Mark Searching & Pre-Filing Assessment
• Drafting and Filing a Trade Mark Application
• Examination and Maintenance of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks
• Litigation and Opinions
• Customer Assurance
• IP Management and Strategy
