Strategy Consulting
Helping you make critical decisions regarding your IP portfolio.
- Formulate strategies that best capture value from actual and potential IP. Ensure these strategies and efforts interact and align with the business strategy.
- Analyze inventions to help make decisions on patents vs. trade secrets.
- Help deploy IP best practices.
- Identify licensing opportunities emerging from actual or potential inventions.
- Estimate the financial value of your intellectual capital and define the business value of certain IP if it were developed.
Patent Prosecution
From drafting claims and descriptions to corresponding with the USPTO or foreign agencies, we can manage the patent prosecution process while keeping you involved and informed every step of the way.
- Prepare, file, and prosecute patents. This includes drafting all parts of a patent application by interviewing inventors, performing literature searches, and incorporating disclosures or reports as appropriate.
- Draft patent applications that are expected to be defensible in a court of law.
- Identify alternate embodiments that avoid prior art and make stronger patents.
- Provide leadership and training to improve inventor knowledge of the process for bringing a concept through the invention process.
Practice Areas
Chemicals
In-depth knowledge of chemistry, chemical engineering, process engineering, and reaction engineering.
Materials
Polymer science, polymer processing, rheology, nano-structured materials, photovoltaics, adhesives, and coatings.
Energy
From traditional oil and gas refining to renewable energy and fuel cells.
Biotechnology
Molecular biology, pharmaceuticals, genetic engineering, industrial biotechnology, biorefining, and biocatalysis/fermentation.
Business Methods
Patent protection for your novel methods of doing business.