Whilst consideration of the protection of intellectual property (IP) is critical, in today’s competitive landscape, capitalising on your ideas and IP assets with appropriate commercialisation strategy is vital for success.
To complement our IP protection and strategy advice, we work with a network of specialist consultants to offer commercial IP consultancy services. This IP commercialisation expertise perfectly complements the patent protection expertise and the wider IP and commercial legal teams to help provide comprehensive, end-to-end support to clients to enhance, understand, leverage, and realise the value of their IP.
We work across a range of markets, with extensive experience in the life sciences, biotechnology, and pharmaceuticals sectors, as well as green chemistry, and fintech industries. Our clients are wide-ranging and include universities, charities, SMEs, and multinationals.
We collaborate closely with a network of trusted third-party specialists who bring a wealth of practical, hands-on experience from hundreds of IP-based transactions. Their backgrounds span SMEs, large corporates, venture capital, and university technology transfer offices, ensuring clients receive well-rounded perspectives and tailored advice.
How can we help?
Our third-party consultants are well-equipped to support clients who are new to IP licensing, those who feel their commercial negotiations could be improved, or organisations that may not have the necessary in-house resources. Their expertise often includes valuation support and covers the structuring of both in- and out-licensing deal terms, term sheet drafting, and negotiation strategies. They work alongside us to guide clients through each stage of the process, helping to achieve deal terms that are competitive and reflect current market expectations.
Through our collaboration, we can collectively offer the following services:
- appraisal of key IP-related agreements
- examination and refinement of deal structures to align with industry standards
- advice on suitable commercial terms, such as royalty rates, fixed fees, milestone payments, and other critical elements
- support and execution of IP due diligence.
Additionally, our licensing support can be seamlessly integrated with commercial intelligence activities, providing clients with comprehensive and strategic guidance.
Competitive and commercial intelligence
With access to leading competitive intelligence platforms, as well as proprietary databases for patent searches and analytics, our combined expertise can support you with market research and competitive intelligence gathering to help inform your value proposition, market positioning, and provide commercial insights into potential new market entrants.
IP strategy
We can help identify, manage, and leverage opportunities around your IP to generate value. Our support can encompass the evaluation of new inventions and potential for IP protection, conducting IP portfolio reviews to ensure they align with your business strategy, right through to providing support ‘on call’.
Services specific to higher education institutions
We have a track record of working with top-tier universities and research-intensive institutes and organisations. Our university specific services, delivered through our network of specialist consultants, include:
- Strategy and policy: We can help universities to develop, benchmark, review and update IP and spin-out policies, rewards to inventors’ schemes, assess operational initiatives and performance, as well as offer strategic advice to support the advancement of university commercialisation objectives.
- Commercialisation/ Tech Transfer Office (TTO) support: We can assist with all aspects of TTO operations, including providing hands-on support for unusual or complex commercialisation projects, right through to longer term or interim support to increase capacity in times when extra resources may be required.
Find out more about how we support higher education institutions.
Who do we help?
We offer IP commercialisation consultancy services to organisations of all sizes, including universities, charities, SMEs, and multinationals.