IP Audits

In today’s business world, intellectual property assets may be vital to a businesses survival and growth. Business transactions involving intellectual property are becoming more and more common. Whether it's working in collaboration with others, acquiring assets from another business or licensing ancillary technology, transferring of rights to intellectual property has become an important part of many business.

However, before a business can use or leverage its intellectual property, the intellectual property must be identified and means taken to protect it. This may involve filing patent applications on ideas and innovations; setting up trade secret protection; filing trademark applications; or insuring that copyright protection is in place.

The firm's attorneys are available to meet with our clients and tour their facility in review their processes and procedures as well as product offerings to identify potential intellectual property and to assist our clients in developing a sound, cost-effective strategy to protect their intellectual property.

The firm's attorneys are also experienced in guiding our clients through establishing appropriate invention recording programs and in working with our client's engineers in establishing an invention disclosure and compensation program. We are happy to provide a sample invention disclosure and compensation template for use by our clients.