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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