At Stratford Managers, we understand that your intellectual property (IP) portfolio is one of your company’s most valuable assets.
With years of experience in the area of IP, we develop efficient strategies to optimize your IP portfolio and foster an innovation-minded culture.
Creating an IP-minded Culture
We believe that the only way to optimize the value of an IP portfolio is to create an IP-minded culture at all levels within the company at an early stage.
The first step is to develop a comprehensive IP policy endorsed by the executive team. We hold IP briefings to ensure that each employee understands the importance of protecting and maximizing the value of the company’s IP portfolio. This is reinforced by practices that continuously encourage employees to submit Invention Disclosure Forms to document their ideas for consideration by a patent review committee.
We perform periodic brainstorming sessions with selected groups of employees to extract new ideas as well as enhancements and variations on existing ideas. These sessions are extremely useful to grow the IP portfolio and maximize value of the inventions.
Protect Your Patent Portfolio While Minimizing Costs
Stratford Managers' hands-on experience, combined with a long-term partnership with reputable US-based patent lawyers allows us to maximize the growth of the IP portfolio at minimum cost. Attorney-client privilege is protected by this important relationship.
We use different methods to secure early filing dates for several inventions, while minimizing upfront cost and deferring more expensive filing decisions while the implementation of the inventions proceeds.
We also develop customized filing strategies that enable the inventions to be protected in the appropriate countries in a timely manner.
From experience, it is important to follow the work done by standardization groups and the underlying patents that may be required to be licensed. We can work with the design team to evaluate the risk of implementing standards and suggest design-around strategies when required. We also provide assistance during the standardization process to make sure the underlying licensing requirements are made public.
Stratford Managers tracks and monitors the status of filed applications to ensure timely issuance of patents and we manage the correspondence with the patent office.
Increasing Competitive Intelligence; Mitigating Risk
We performs periodic searches to develop competitive intelligence that can be used to augment market analysis and maintain a map of the patent landscape.
The searches can be used to proactively assist with the assessment of infringement and adapt product plans at early stages to ensure the freedom to operate.
Our unique patent expertise allows us to perform searches on issued patents and published applications in a very cost effective manner.
Creating Revenue Opportunities
Stratford Managers' experience with patent litigation makes us a valuable member of the license negotiating team where we assist with patent validity and infringement assessments. We can also identify companies that may have interest in licensing your company’s patents and participate in the negotiation of the licensing arrangements.
Take the next step.Call 1 877 325 2688. Email natalie.giroux@ stratfordmanagers.com.
