PATENT-PORTFOLIO-STRATEGIE SCHAFFT WETTBEWERBSVORTEILE

INDUSTRY: POWER TOOLS

REAL SUCCESS STORIES DUE TO IP STRATEGY

THE CHALLENGE

Legal and technological consultation of development processes & monitoring of competitors' actions

SOLUTIONS CREATED

Tangible design recommendations & permanent analysis of the market environment (excerpt)

PRIMARY CLIENT BENEFIT

Legal security for products & optimization of patent budget

PRODUCT TYPE

Wide product portfolio of power tools, e.g. accumulators, hammer drills, garden tools, woodworking tools etc., for use by professionals and hobbyists.

OUR TASKS

  • Developer support through novelty searches, landscape searches (technologies) and freedom-to-operate searches.
  • Legal and technological consultation in inventor workshops "From product idea to market entry" & monitoring of the process
  • Design of in-house IP processes together with the client
  • Patent monitoring and monthly reporting on market-relevant new IP rights

OUR SOLUTIONS

  • Identification of potential product features to be protected
  • Overview of the competitor's IP portfolio
  • Overview of competitors' patent activity by country and market
  • 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 the market environment (competitors, competing products, existing IP rights)
  • Optimization of the patent budget
  • Legal security for the launch of new products and product groups (freedom to operate)
  • Smooth processes in the internal patent system