GLOBAL IP CONSULTANCY LIMITED

ABOUT

Global IP Consultancy Limited is a firm specialized in the field of Intellectual Property. We provide services assisting our Clients to protect and valorize their patents, trademarks, designs and copyrights, allowing them to make strategic and informed business decisions regarding the strength of their IP portfolio with respect to the market and competitors.

ADVISORY

Global IP has a particular skill in advisory, where we perform the related services, both directly and through an international network of professionals. Our unique blend of experience in technology, law and business has led us to become a leader in the IP field.

SERVICES

Whether we are working with a multi-national company, a SME, a start-up, a research center or a university, the range of services offered by Global IP meets with the needs of IP creators to exploit their intangible assets and to create significant and sustained value to maximize returns from investment in Intellectual Property and R&D.

IP Management and Consultancy

Global IP offers to its worldwide Clients a full range of IP services, assisting them in protecting their IP assets and developing a growing IP portfolio.

Our services include

Prior Art Searches
Global IP standard Prior-Art Search is intended to determine the patentability, novelty, and non-obviousness of an invention. In addition, we provide searches for freedom-to-operate or for determining a possible infringement problem with respect to IPRs. Searches are made on national and international databases. Technical Literature (magazines, newspapers, journals, and other documents) are also taken into consideration in the analysis.

Assistance in IP Filing and Prosecution
Global IP assists its Clients in the IP filing and prosecution practice in different Countries and fields of technology.

Strategic IP portfolio development and management
Global IP maximizes the value of companies’ IP portfolios by addressing weaknesses and identifying potential streams of revenue that can be accessed via licensing opportunities. We develop portfolio optimization strategies, directing clients' investments towards IP assets capable of generating adequate returns, and advising when depreciated IP assets should be divested.

Industry/Competitive Analysis and Market Surveillance
Global IP provides IP watch services that alert Clients to opportunities or potential infringers against which they may need to take action.

In-house seminars
Global IP is available to organize in-house seminars for the development of an internal IP management practice which could better address Clients’ needs in the protection and management of IP portfolio.

Licensing and IP Transactions

Global IP has developed an extensive experience in assisting Clients in negotiating licensing-in or licensing-out agreements and other forms of IP Transactions both for acquiring and selling patented technologies and other IP assets across a wide variety of industries

Our services include

Licensing, Pooling and other forms of IP Aggregation
Global IP support Clients in the creation and management of Patent Pools, Joint-Licensing Agreements and other forms of IP Aggregation. The purpose is to facilitate the licensing of Standard Essential Patents (SEPs) by creating a “One stop shop” that provides more certainty and predictability to the market with regards to IP costs.

IP Acquisitions and Sales
Global IP collaborates with its clients in order to develop a customized and flexible contract structure designed to meet clients’ needs and objectives. We actively bring IP buyers and sellers together in mutually beneficial transactions.

Research, Development and Cooperation Agreements
Global IP handles Research, Development and Cooperation agreements for the development, testing, manufacture, marketing, and sale of products and services for companies as well as for Universities and Research Centers.

Compliance and Verification
Compliance and Verification is the natural step to verify that the licensee, after taking the license, is now paying the correct amount of royalties based on the real amount of products commercialized and sold. Global IP compliance and verification approach is based on a global audit methodology, which has been tailored to this activity.

Due Diligence
Global IP provides due diligence reviews of IP assets in connection with investments, M&A, joint ventures, licensing and other corporate transactions to determine what the client will obtain, to evaluate associated risks and the likelihood of third-party infringement challenges.

IP Legal Consultancy

IP protection inevitably involves disputes over rights to that property. Global IP provides opinions on patent validity, freedom-to-operate and non-infringement situations, and assists its Clients in litigation as well as technical support in IP lawsuits.

Our services include

IP Litigation
Global IP has an extensive experience managing patent litigation. Our clients benefit from our ability to efficiently deal with complex technical cases to better settle disputes.

Expert Witness Placement
Global IP can provide its Clients expert analysis in connection with IP litigation. This is a critical component, particularly in patent infringement cases where expert analysis can make the difference between winning and losing the dispute.

IP Mediation & Arbitration
Global IP can also assist its Clients in Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) such Mediation and Arbitration, allowing parties to efficiently settle their domestic or cross-border IP issues and technology disputes out of court.

Anti-counterfeiting
Global IP supports its clients in every aspect of their anti-counterfeiting efforts, such as investigations, ex parte seizures and preliminary injunctions. In particular, we work with Customs Authorities to prevent the entry of counterfeit goods into the European Union and we also provide "reverse engineering" services to identify infringement of IP rights.

IP & Technology Valuation

Establishing the value of IP rights is a fundamental component in business decisions. Whether Clients are involved in licensing and technology transfer activities, M&A transactions, additional R&D investments, or litigation procedures, Global IP is able to provide them economic and technical evaluation of their Technology and IP Assets.