IP Due Diligence

In today’s knowledge based economy, IP due diligence is a prerequisite for any business decision governing IP assets including patents, trademarks, copyrights and industrial designs. IP due diligence is equally important for buyers “acquiring company” as well as sellers “target company” and even for owners to leverage and manage their IP.

The key benefits of IP due diligence carried out by our team comprising IP, legal and technology specialists in the concerned field are:

• Uncover risks or deficiencies with regard to title or ownership of IP
  
  
• Prioritize acquiring new IP rights based on the current pipeline or existing IP
  
  
• Understand the extent of protection IP protection provides to the product line or services of the company
  
  
• Negotiate, renegotiate the value or key terms or in critical cases terminate the deal
  
  
• Learn about any ongoing or anticipated litigation
  
  
• Workout action plan for mitigating any risk

Our IP due diligence process customized around your goals include:

• Prepare a comprehensive checklist of all the steps and milestones with action plan to execute the same
  
  
• Review entire portfolio of IP including issued, pending, abandoned patents or patent applications, registered or unregistered trademarks, copyrights, industrial designs or any other IP
  
  
• Review all the documents concerning acquisition of IP rights
  
  
• Review all the agreements such as employment, confidentiality, non-disclosure, collaborative research, license agreements, merchandising agreement and assignment or those affecting the title of IP rights
  
  
• Examine the details of ownership, assignment and licenses
  
  
• Review all the searches carried out before and during IP acquisition
  
  
• Conduct infringement or validity search and analyses for example for patents or dilution searches for trademarks
  
  
• Review the maintenance status with regard to payment of renewal fees
  
  
• Review ongoing or pending law suits details
  

Our IP due diligence reports are thorough and attends to every detail of your strategic business needs.

We tailor our IP due diligence exercise to the extent it is needed for the strategic business decision that suits your budget.