An IP audit helps you uncover and prevent many “business nightmares” that ultimately impact on your business revenue and profits. The "nightmare" may be a contract that was never signed with an independent contractor, leaving copyright in the work resting with the contractor. It may be a forgotten founder or collaborator or a person who was in the room helping to work out the initial inventive leaps that led to the company’s core innovations and then left the company without signing the proper documents. It may be a Non-Disclosure (NDA) that terminates too early or that was never signed or a patent application that was filed too late. Sometimes, it may be a missing trademark search.

Insufficient attention to IP management and sound IP practices and controls can, under close examination by third parties (and their lawyers), strip your IP portfolio and diminish your company’s value.

At Anassutzi & Co, we provide valuable all-round strategic counseling based on our understanding of the business environment in which your company operates and your requirements and needs. We can also help you build organisational competence and enhance the skills of your people, through appropriate training of IP importance, identification and evidencing.

At Anassutzi & Co, we provide a clear, honest and commercial review of all the various intellectual property issues, having regard to the commercial realities at fixed fees! We can truly give you the best option and direction for each case, having only your company’s best interests at heart, at very competitive prices!

Here are some examples of how we helped other businesses:

Case 1: Reviewing contracts with employees and independent contractors to determine if IP rights in all developed products are actually vested with the company in anticipation of an investment round.

Case 2: Reviewing licence and support agreements in respect of proprietary software of third parties to determine, if all licences were legally effective, current and permitted the use of the software in way the company had made.

Case 3: Preparing and reviewing IP Audit questionnaires with a view to establishing the extent of a clients IP ownership; and interviews with executives to clarify any uncertainties, agree a way forward and set up IP policies.

For more information on how we can help you call us now or email us!

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