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Contracts, licences & strategy

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Contracts, licences & strategy

Besides protection, intellectual property also requires management and use. We draw up NDAs, collaboration agreements and licence agreements, keep track of your portfolio and deadlines, and think along strategically, up to and including interim in-house IP management.

Your IP portfolio

IP portfolio Register · management & monitoring
Asset A

Patent

Exclusive right to your new, technical invention.

Technical right
Asset B

Trade mark

Your name, logo or sign that sets you apart.

Distinctive sign
Asset C

Design

The distinctive, unique appearance of your product.

Appearance
Asset D

Know-how & secrets

Unregistered knowledge that you keep confidential.

Confidential

Four types of IP asset that together make up your portfolio.

From protection to management

After protection comes management and use.

We help you to secure your rights, put them to work and manage them coherently.

Licences

With a licence you grant someone else the right to use your IP, on terms that you set yourself.

FIG. 2 · LICENCE FLOW RIGHTS HOLDER (you) LICENCE LICENSEE (third party) grants right of use exclusive · non-exclusive · territorial fee · royalty or fixed sum 10 12 14

Fig. 2 · You grant, the licensee uses and pays

  • ExclusivityExclusive or non-exclusiveOne licensee, or several alongside each other.
  • TerritoryPer country or regionYou decide where the licence applies.
  • FeeRoyalty or fixed sumA share per sale, or a one-off sum.
  • TermFixed durationWith a start, an end and termination conditions.

What we do

  1. Non-disclosure agreements (NDA). Protect your idea before you talk about it with third parties.
  2. Collaboration and licence agreements. Set out who owns the rights and who may commercialise them: exclusive or non-exclusive, per country or region, for a fixed sum or a royalty.
  3. Portfolio management. We keep track of your deadlines and pay the official fees on time.
  4. IP strategy. Which protection suits your business plan, and in which order?
  5. Interim (in-house) IP management. Temporarily your internal IP manager.
010203 FIG. 3 Fig. 3 · IP strategy in steps
05 · Strategy

We think along strategically

Which rights do you apply for, in which countries and at what moment? Together with you we build a route that fits your plans.

RoadmapPrioritiesInterim in-house
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Discuss your IP portfolio.

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