IP Strategy & Business Development

We provide consulting services to help business leaders understand, advance, and exploit their intellectual property (IP) positions. We do this by combining legal work with the study of market intelligence and business opportunities. We show leaders the market landscape they face today and the power they possess to alter that landscape, including pathways to create new, unanticipated market structures. To assist our clients in achieving their business goals, we provide counseling in:

Invention

• concept generation and development
• training, seminars, and collaboration

Innovation

• finding licensors and licensees
• identifying business models for bringing ideas to market

Strategy

• market structure analysis via IP power analysis
• merger and acquisition targeting and execution

IP Operations

• portfolio assessment, management, planning, budgeting, and reporting
• developing domestic and international IP filing strategies
• best practices training for in-house counsel, engineers, and product managers

Communication

• Executive reporting
• IP portfolio metrics
• IP operations metrics