We do IP StartUPs Support
The legal rights obtained through formal registration can be both an asset and a liability at the same time. The legal rights can become a financial liability, particularly over the passage of time, as the rights can become disconnected with the company’s strategy and product lines, which usually happens in start-up companies. Without a proactive approach to value creation, market opportunities to maxims value for star-ups can pass. We understand however that achieving a successful IP investment, sale or licensing deal is a challenging process where specialist skills, networks and relationships are required. provides IP brokers and guidance for those wishing to secure a deal or gain market access.
M&A transactions and investments in start-up businesses increasingly now involve substantial intangible assets to be traded. Both sides in the transaction wish to recognise where the value resides and achieve a fair recognition. This factor, leads to best practice due diligence, where the intangible assets are captured early in the process to both recognise fair value but to also enable the impact of integration with the acquirer to achieve maximum benefit. At Coller IP we work with both sellers and buyers not only to get the best value for our customer but also to enable a transaction to close efficiently.
We welcome contact from start-up companies and individuals that own IP and wish to develop it or who wish to reap rewards from IP investment by successfully trading IP, negotiating a sale or purchase or completing a licensing deal.
We do IP renewals
StartUp Fabrikk renewal services provide a highly cost effective mechanism for managing the annuity payments required for the different forms of IP.Our team undertake all formalities and provide a confidential, comprehensive service for patent, design and trade mark renewals, liaising with clients and our renewals agent, to ensure that all critical deadlines are met and that formalities are correctly completed and recorded.
StartUp Fabrikk have established procedures, systems and processes in place for sending out reminders to our clients and ensuring that our renewals agent is properly instructed on a monthly basis as and when required. Our paralegals provide information showing renewal fee deadlines with estimated costs for cases from all jurisdictions, allowing efficient administration of renewal instructions to the highest standard on a cost effective basis.
For clients that have large patent portfolios, our systems and databases allow for forecasting of annuity payments which facilitates budgeting and cost control.
Finaly, we provide competitive rates for maintenance fees and provide insight when costs are to be expected as part of the strategic IP management advice.
We do IP Licensing Support
Licensing our is the State of Art.The management and licensing of the different forms of intellectual property (patents, trademarks, copyrights, design rights, trade names en trade dress as well as secret know how) can be important to the success of the business that invents or creates a product, to manufacturers, to the designers that configure or refine a product’s appearance and to the producers of packaging and marketing literature and materials.
Patents have long been a strategic asset in attempts to protect market share and key proprietary technologies. Patents have also become a new source of sought after revenues for technology companies and a key measure for corporate valuation by the investment community. Licensing those key proprietary technologies is an effective way to achieve added returns on a company’s investment in the development of IP and maximize licensing valuations.
We also provide related services such as technical and negotiating support for in-licensing activities.
We do IP Advisory Work
Intellectual Property advisory work encompasses a wide variety of services, among which:
IP Management Services
Strategic IP Consulting:
o providing incentives for innovation
o allowing for the packaging of intellectual assets into innovative processes
o encouraging the diffusion of technical information
o enabling the capturing of added value (economic and or social) through the control of intellectual assets
Advisory services in the Seed and Plant industry
IP Tear Down & Reverse Engineering
We do IP Valuation
StartUp Fabrikk helps to validate your IPRs. Intellectual Property is the new asset class. A company may want to capitalize on the potential benefits of its IP assets and extract their full value is by valuating its IP. We do valuation of Patents, Trademarks, Copyrights and Know How and other valuable assets,
StartUp Fabrikk services entail also identifying, monitoring, valuing a company’s IP assets so as to make sure that the company is making the most out of their IP assets. By doing so, a company is able to make informed decisions when it comes to:
Acquiring IP assets
Mergers and acquisitions
Licensing
Collateral
Enforcement
Cost optimozation
We Do IP Due Diligence
StartUp Fabrikk provide clear and definite due diligence opinions, both commercial and legal as to the status of the IP that underpins a potential investment together with a bespoke innovation roadmap, helping drive value in your business. Our DD can take the form of informal and brief headline summary of the key issues right the way through to a formal legal opinion. We don’t just look at the intellectual property, we also consider the wider intangible assets contained in the people, the market attractiveness and competitive differentiation for a business opportunity or for an investment decision.
We do IP Brokerage
Acquisition of IP, especially patents, is hot issue. Hence we partner with other renowned IP brokerage firms to identify relevant IP where this strategy is of benefit. StartUp Fabrikk do also assist companies and R&D institutes in finding proper markets for their IP. Our consultants have extensive experience in advising companies to build an effective and strategic IP acquisition strategy. Technical expertise on nanotechnology, functional additives, polymers, mobile technology, semiconductor, pharma and medtech is provided through our most senior engineers.
