Creating your Intellectual Property Strategy
Intellectual Property (IP) is a prime asset for any business, whether it is a patented invention, a design, or a trade mark. Our highly experienced team of attorneys can help clients create and implement a strategy that maximises the benefit their IP brings to any business.
Using your Intellectual Property
There are many different reasons to register your IP, and knowing what your goals are before starting the process will help our team devise a strategy custom suited to your needs.
Are you looking to:
Whatever your goal, our team of attorneys can help ensure that your Intellectual Property becomes an asset to your business.
Secure a strong position for negotiating with investors
With our experience in working with companies and investors, MacLachlan IP understand full well the time, effort, and resources that can go into creating new products and services.
By working closely with our clients, we can recognise new and emerging IP as it is being created, and harness its potential value by ensuring it is appropriately registered.
How do I recognise Intellectual Property?
Our attorneys can help you determine if what you have developed can be protected. We can work on specific areas of IP, or we can conduct a full IP Audit. An IP Audit reviews your business and provides a comprehensive report detailing all potential IP protection possibilities available to you.
There are important steps to take before deciding to register IP, such as determining whether your creation or innovation qualifies for protection and ensuring it does not infringe on any existing patent or trade mark rights. We can advise you if your work meets the criteria, and if it requires action to protect it.
Freedom to Operate
Discovering if a concept or creation is novel, or infringes on someone else’s existing intellectual property rights, is something that is best undertaken as early as possible in the process.
Developing a new manufacturing process, or bringing a product to the market, only to find out after the fact that you are infringing on someone’s rights, can be costly. Not just in terms of the time and resources committed, but in potential penalties for any infringement.
We can guide and assist in carrying out as much due diligence as possible to identify potential infringements, and help manage them.
