Patents

While we leave it to our expert select patent attorney teaming firms in the UK and around the world, to undertake the specialist work involved in drafting patent applications and claims and pursuing their timely and effective grant throughout the world, we work very closely with them, to ensure that while they work on that very important aspect of protecting your inventions (which can include products, processes, materials and software), we work to help you maximise the opportunities to license the manufacture and distribution of goods which incorporate or use such inventions and generally exploit those inventions for which patent applications are lodged and pursued.

In essence, we recognise that the time to start thinking about how you are going to make money from your invention is even before your patent attorney convinces you to try to patent it.

Many ‘punters’ pay large sums to secure patents for inventions that never see the light of day.  We make it part of our business, to help you understand and decide whether even if you have an invention that may be patentable, it is worth patenting and, if so, how you can best exploit the patent rights from the date of application). 

You need to recognise that commercially, patenting is often used as a means to an end, rather than an end in itself!   If don’t understand that, then you can get burnt badly by your patenting experience.

So we work only with like minded ‘commercially focused’ expert patent attorneys, and select only those individual practitioners who from our knowledge or experience will provide you with like-for-like value for money patent services to match our offering of IP Capital legal services and products.

We are experts in all forms of patent and patent know-how arrangements including University and Research Centre / Spin Off/Start-Up R&D and public sector and private sector licensing and distribution agreements for manufacture and distribution/sales of products in the UK and around the world, as well as other arrangements for commercialisation in the UK and globally.

We are also experts in handling legal requirements for all forms of patent and know-how joint-ventures and collaborations whether (incorporated or not) for every stage of the Patenting to Product Life Cycle and beyond (e.g. IPO preparatory work), as well as venture capital, private equity and public funding arrangements.

There isn’t a patent question we can’t answer.  Ask us today.  Go on, your first telephone consultation is free, gratis, on-us, so it won’t hurt!