IP Strategy & Reporting
Your IP Portfolio managed throughout the entire IP Lifecycle with strategic methodology and a professional case management system at global (worldwide) level. PRINS offers all services from branding and technology assessment to full management of your IP rights: clearance searches, freedom-to-operate studies (FTO), all maintenance services throughout the IP-Lifecycle and post-registration watching services.
Availability and novelty searches, as well as portfolio audits are typically conducted to determine the potential and strength of an IP portfolio. PRINS is experienced in conducting audits and delivering comprehensive reports useful to investors, in the course of Due Diligences or other M&A operations.
Patents
The best protection of all technical inventions, patent rights very often represent the main assets of innovative companies.
Drafting the right patent claims and navigating through the complex administrative formalities requires the assistance of a qualified patent attorney, so that the patent unlocks its full commercial potential. Patent Box regulations have also brought interesting news for tax optimization of your R&D departments.
How can Intellectual Property protect ideas ?
Intellectual property (IP) encompasses a wide range of creative and innovative works, from inventions and designs to literary and artistic creations. It is however not possible to claim a monopoly right over business ideas or concepts.
Trademarks
Besides all standard registration and maintenance services, PRINS distinguishes itself through its strategic and pragmatic approach: trademark rights are meant to support their owner’s commercial activity, online and offline.
We therefore help you choose the right name and logo for your project, protect your brand to the right extent nationally and internationally, and are by your side when needing to enforce your rights towards infringers.
Whether you want to track counterfeit online or offline, we can launch the appropriate Brand Protection measures, with customs or on the Internet.
Knowing your brand’s value is also important: PRINS is able to offer Brand Valuation services to determine the correct legal, marketing and financial value of your trademark.
How can Intellectual Property protect ideas ?
Intellectual property (IP) encompasses a wide range of creative and innovative works, from inventions and designs to literary and artistic creations. It is however not possible to claim a monopoly right over business ideas or concepts.
Litigation & Contracts
IP rights are a company’s assets and require careful consideration to support company value. PRINS assists you in optimizing this value by establishing licensing and franchising programs generating Return on Investment (ROI), by assessing your advertising campaigns and ensuring that all company data is secured according to the latest Data Protection law.
Designs
When the shape or pattern of your product is innovative and original, design protection is the right approach.
Many iconic products have benefitted from the 25-year protection of a design registration, giving their creator a competitive advantage and deserved recognition to their talent.
Copyright
Being unregistered rights in most countries, copyrights (also called author’s rights) require a specific attention and a strategic approach to be protected efficiently.
PRINS can recommend the right actions depending on your commercial projects.
Domain Names
Inevitable in a digital environment, domain names are the online pendant to brands.
Building-up the right portfolio with a methodological approach encompassing all name and extension variations relevant to your digital presence is the best way to avoid hacking, phishing and trolling attempts. PRINS also offers watching services of domains enabling us to take down illegal website presence.
IP Due Diligence
When preparing a M&A, a financing round or any other company transfer, IP rights are part of a company’s assets that require to be properly assessed for setting a correct price. Lack of proper coverage, hidden liabilities or unclear ownership are only few examples that can considerably reduce such price. Be it on the buyer’s or the seller’s side, PRINS regularly issues reports enabling to clear the IP picture and delivers strategic recommendations for increasing the value of IP by addressing key points of the missing protection.
