IP portfolio management
ServiceIP management
Our service of managing your IP portfolio
- Managing your IP portfolio in close coordination with you
- Drawing up a budget plan for the maintenance of your IP rights and IP applications
- Processing payments for the maintenance of your IP rights and IP applications in Germany and abroad
- Monitoring the time limits for furnishing proof of use and grace periods for your IP rights
- Acquiring and assembling proof of use evidence in direct cooperation with the relevant departments of your company
- Optional: Monitoring of IP applications of third parties and competitors
External IP department
ServiceIP department
Our services as your external IP department include, in addition to IP portfolio management:
- Receiving invention disclosure reports from your employees and handling the formalities of the German Employee Invention Act
- Preparing incoming invention disclosure reports for your decision on claiming or releasing
- Direct communication with your inventors to prepare patent applications
- Managing IP applications in the application and examination procedure in close consultation with you
- Compiling information for the evaluation of inventions
- Proposing suggestions for inventor compensation and the purchase of inventor rights
- Monitoring industrial property right applications of third parties and competitors
- Developing industrial property right strategies in close consultation with you