Intellectual Property Portfolio Management

Intellectual assets are the pre-eminent source of competitive advantage in today’s knowledge economy. Like any asset intellectual property must be actively managed and maintained to capture its value, ensure long term effectiveness and generate competitive advantage. Failure to do so may jeopardise your investment in R&D and exposes your organisation to significant infringement risk.

Effective intellectual property portfolio management is a specialised discipline, not an administrative task. It requires time, care, objectivity and resources (around seven per cent of an organisation’s research and development budget).

Management of your intellectual property portfolio should never be turned over to a provider who has a vested interest in filing patents or trademarks, such as a patent attorney. To do so, creates a very real risk that large numbers of patents and trademarks will be filed that add little, if any, value to the organisation.

At EverEdge IP we are independent of the patent attorney industry and do not file patents or trademarks on behalf of our clients. Hence we are uniquely placed to provide the independent and objective advice required to effectively manage a portfolio. 

We can reduce cost and free valuable R&D staff from the complexity of looking after your registered and unregistered portfolio’s day-to-day requirements by providing you with an outsourced intellectual property management service.

• reducing your intellectual property management and overhead costs
• eliminating the need for intellectual property management training
• providing access to our team of intellectual property professionals, and 
• removing succession risk, which can arise from building capability around one or two individuals within your organisation.

Find out more about how outsourcing can help you gain cost-effective access to extensive and objective intellectual property expertise.