Start-up businesses with distinctive brands, ideas and inventions protected by patents and trade marks are more attractive to investors. Without this protection, those assets are vulnerable to use by competitors, and therefore, less valuable.
We understand the world in which starts-ups operate – time, cash and resources are scarce. We give start-ups the information, guidance and good advice they need, when considering how best to leverage and protect their IP, as an early-stage business.
Our approach is pragmatic and focused on a start-up’s particular goals and circumstances. We have helped many start-up businesses to become investor-ready.
Through a free, no obligation session with one of our IP attorneys, we can audit your assets and identify potentially protectable intellectual property. We can advise on strategy and next-steps bespoke to your business.
All our patent attorneys have high level technical skills, knowledge and experience. Together they cover all areas of technology and form one large resource of expert technical and legal capability.
Find out moreProtecting brand assets with trade marks allows businesses of all sizes to invest in their brand with confidence, build brand equity and leverage that equity for growth.
Find out moreDesign rights are a monopoly right that protect the visual appearance of products, which can include shape, colour, materials and texture. This includes logos, characters and other two-dimensional shapes and forms.
Find out moreWe have extensive experience in drafting, reviewing, negotiating, and advising on commercial transactions that are driven by IP assets.
Find out moreWe have an outstanding team of copyright experts. Our team includes registered design attorneys, solicitors and paralegals so that we can deal effectively with any situation that may arise.
Find out moreIP strategy is the body of planned measures a business adopts, in order to use intellectual property to secure business advantage over its competitors.
Find out moreOur team of IP solicitors and attorney litigators are specialists in all aspects of IP disputes and IP dispute resolution
Find out moreAside from our core areas of expertise, we are able to offer various support services which supplement or expand on these core areas.
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