Strategic Counseling

What it is

We have worked with hundreds of patent portfolios and each one has its own story. Its origins and business purpose guide the correct approach to portfolio maintenance, expansion, licesing, and sale strategies. This is where our experience delivers significant value to our clients.

The questions it answers

What should we protect, and how? A patent requires you to describe the invention publicly in exchange for a time-limited right to exclude. Aligning the proper scope of protection with your business goals is the focus of this inquiry.

What do we file, and in what order? Budgets are finite, and priorities differ by client. Sequencing filings against a product roadmap is part of a successful IP strategy.

Where are we exposed? This analysis helps expose potential gaps in your IP coverage and allows you to expand protection in that space by developing IP internally or acquiring needed assets elsewhere.

What does the portfolio look like to someone else? Investors and acquirers examine intellectual property, and they examine it against a standard that has little to do with how many patents you own. Knowing what they will find before they find it is worth more than fixing it afterwards.

Working with founders and in-house teams

Founders are busy running their business and our job is take the IP workload off their busy schedules. Similarly, in-house IP counsel have a slew of responsibilities where a good number of IP tasks are more efficiently offloaded to outside counsel. Our approach to IP services allows you to expand your IP protection while lowering costs.

What happens next

Call or email us and describe the decision you are facing in general terms — a launch, a financing round, a competitor's patent, a roadmap you are trying to protect. We will put an engagement agreement in place before you send anything confidential.