INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
STRATEGY & PLANNING

Identify and analyze existing IP rights and players in the relevant technology space.

A coherent IP strategy will include IP landscaping to identify and analyze existing IP rights and players in the relevant technology space. The white space opportunities will be identified during the landscaping process, allowing for an evaluation of the coherence between the IP plan and the white space analysis. With the landscape defined, IP forecasting may be undertaken to predict, based upon a third party’s prior IP behavior, what are the likely IP protection pathways a third party will be pursuing with their IP portfolio. Additionally, licensing and collaborative research and development opportunities may be undertaken, “blue sky” evaluation for next generation products and/or superseding technology and opportunities for developing IP in those areas, freedom-to-operate issues relevant to the pre-commercial products under development to minimize the risk of material liability in litigation should be undertaken and processes for dynamic and real time IP tracking within the technology space, may be implemented.

Once the IP plan has been identified, a management team including business, technology and legal expertease should review the business objectives, review and discuss the plan, and pressure test the plan against identified opportunities and challenges that the intellectual property will present to achieving those objectives. Being dynamic, the plan will be consistently and constantly assessed, revised, and reassesed as new objectives are identified, new opportunities are presented or new challenges arise
 
 
In patent landscaping, issued patents and published patent applications relevant to the inquiry are identified and analyzed. The nature, breadth and quality of those issued patents is assessed, as is the likelihood of pending patent applications issuing and the anticipated nature, breadth and quality of a patent issuing from the pending application is forecast. Where relevant to the business objectives, both domestic and foreign patents and patent applications are examined as part of the landscape analysis.
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