PATENT MANAGEMENT INCREASES COMPANY VALUE
INDUSTRY: AUTOMOTIVE SUPPLIERS
REAL SUCCESS STORIES DUE TO IP STRATEGY
THE CHALLENGE
Market analysis, legal and technological consultation of invention processes and management of patent applications
SOLUTIONS CREATED
Concrete design recommendations & permanent analysis of the market environment (excerpt)
MAIN CLIENT BENEFIT
Creation of a patent portfolio and increase of company value
PRODUCT TYPE
Module for thermal management in vehicles
OUR TASKS
- Legal and technological consultation in inventor workshops "From product idea to market entry" & monitoring of the process
- Developer support through novelty searches, landscape searches (technologies) and freedom-to-operate searches
- Market analysis (competition, competitor products, technology fields, intellectual property)
- Strategy formulation for product development (opportunities, risks, rights, concrete design recommendations)
- Management of patent applications
OUR SOLUTIONS
- Overview per product/product group: competitors, competitor products, IP-relevant markets
- Filing strategies (identification of lucrative patent applications and their prioritization, definition of markets)
- Monthly, clearly structured & comprehensible report on new, relevant IP rights - individually per product area
- Design recommendations to achieve patents or avoid conflicts with existing patents
RESULTING CUSTOMER BENEFITS
- Knowledge of market environment (competitors, competing products, existing property rights)
- Legal security for product launch (freedom to operate)
- Development of a patent portfolio
- Increase in market value of the company