Robert Lind

2 weeks ago | mondaq.com | Mike Williams |Robert Lind

Investors, buyers and licensees will all want to see that you doin fact properly own your IP. It can be a huge headache to find outduring a due diligence exercise or licence negotiations thatassignments and other transfer documents were not properlycompleted or stored. You need to be able to show a paper orelectronic document trail clearly establishing ownership of allvaluable IP, starting with the creator, e.g. the inventor ordesigner, and finishing with your company.

3 weeks ago | mondaq.com | Mike Williams |Robert Lind

MC Marks & Clerk More Marks & Clerk is one of the UK’s foremost firms of Patent and Trade Mark Attorneys. Our attorneys and solicitors are wired directly into the UK’s leading business and innovation economies. Alongside this we have offices in 9 international locations covering the EU, Canada and Asia, meaning we offer clients the best possible service locally, nationally and internationally. Expansion and growth will usually entail recruitment.

3 weeks ago | mondaq.com | Mike Williams |Robert Lind

At the outset it is important to identify critical IP assets andto not disclose these before you have taken professional advice. This is especially true of any assets that you might want toprotect with patents, utility models and Registered Designs.