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IP owners
iploit is a trusted partner for IP owners. We advise inventors, researchers and growth companies about how to protect and commercialize their patented or protected inventions depending on the stage of the technology life-cycle and the market environment. We can represent clients in their and in our own name. We assess the needs of every client individually and propose a strategy suiting the specific needs characterizing the concrete business case. However, some patterns are re-occurring:
- Start-up companies or university spin-offs based on a technological invention often patent their original inventions merely for the sake of obtaining a patent. This work is sophisticatedly performed by patent attorneys. Their job is to focus on obtaining a patent that is new, incorporates an inventive step, and promises economic potential. They employ a case-by-case view. It is usually not within the scope of their work to put the invention into the context of the changing technological landscape it belongs to or to assess the strategic value of an invention within the value chain of an existing industry. However, the generation of the IP-portfolio should be done in a way to take these aspects into account in order to optimize the likelihood of generating early financial returns from an invention, e.g. by licensing the technology to established companies. By doing so, the licensor can be in a position to steer the technological evolution in a technology subfield. Furthermore, the financial returns can be reinvested to sustain thought and product leadership and consequently competitive advantage.
- IP owners aligning the geographic scope of protection of their patents to the area where they sell and produce their products. In the case of small- and medium-sized companies this forecloses monetization of IP assets in regions beyond their own reach.
- IP owners often put a lot of effort into the development of a technological invention and dedicate substantial amounts of money to the protection of their ideas through patents. During the commercialization of their inventions they approach large integrated companies which may initially be fond of the external ideas. However, in large established companies’ innovation processes are a whole range of internal impediments to the implementation of outside-technology. It is not only the often cited ‘not-invented-here-syndrome’. There may also be pressures not allowing large companies to step-up to radical and new approaches because they have to give to their key accounts more of what they already wanted last month, i.e. a short-sighted customer orientation. Sometimes, SMEs and single inventors also become short-cut by being imitated due to their disclosing of their invention. Whatever the causes of a failing commercialization may be it is not necessarily the quality of the ideas and patented technologies to be commercialized.
For these and other patterns such as using IP as an instrument for balance sheet optimization iploit offers a range of services. Please call us to discuss whether we can add value to your business case. If we decide that a potential collaboration may be of mutual interest, we will provide you with an NDA enabling us to have in-depth discussions fast.
Exemplary solution components potentially relevant for your case:
In exceptionally promising cases, iploit also serves the role of a mandatee finding the right channels for arranging seed-financing of new technology based ventures or expansion financing of protected technologies already having attracted revenues on markets. We do so by relying on our established network of investors and financing partners.
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