Major companies and large corporations have their own IP departments, which are usually a part of the legal department and which manage the company's intellectual property. This usually consists of trademarks, technical industrial property rights and licences. Many technology-oriented companies have at least their own patent department.

The high personnel costs associated with this make it economically unattractive for small and medium-sized companies to maintain a corresponding organisational unit themselves. Often, the topic of ‘intellectual property’ is then ‘forced upon’ a company division, where it is then more or less managed.

If, for example, you do not want your R&D department to deal with (even more) administrative tasks, but rather to drive forward your company's innovations, then take advantage of our external IP department service. In a slimmed-down form, we also merely take over your intellectual property rights management for you.