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.
What do we do?
Our network of specialist consultants has extensive experience in supporting the needs of IP-based businesses and research organisations, from facilitating, identifying and scouting suitable partners (both buy-side and sell-side), advising on IP management and strategy, portfolio optimisation through to IP valuation, licensing (structures and financial terms), and commercialisation.
IP licensing
Are you new to the licensing of IP? Do you feel commercial terms that are being negotiated are sub-optimal? Or maybe you lack in-house capacity?
Our consultants have extensive, real, ‘hands-on’ experience of hundreds of IP-based deals from the perspectives of SMEs, big corporate, venture capital and university technology transfer offices. Often incorporating valuation support, our consultants’ advice can include how best to structure in- and out- licensing deal terms, term sheet drafting, through to negotiation strategy to help guide clients through the process to deliver market appropriate deal terms.
Collectively, our services can help:
- appraise key IP-related agreements;
- examine deal structure to align to industry expectations and standards;
- advise on appropriate commercial terms (e.g. royalty rates, fixed fees, milestone payments) and other key terms; and
- support and undertake IP due diligence.
Our licensing support can be combined in conjunction with commercial intelligence activities.
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:
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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.
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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. Because our team have extensive experience of working at senior and management roles within university TTOs we can provide practical guidance and support at every step.
Who do we help?
We offer IP commercialisation consultancy services to organisations of all sizes, including universities, charities, SMEs and multinationals.