Take control of your Intellectual Property environment
We support you in four key areas.
Your IP rights are only valuable if you control the environment in which they are enforced. Monitoring the competition, assessing risks, and anticipating conflicts: this is what turns a portfolio of intellectual property into a true competitive advantage.
1. Legal consultations
Providing clear, sound, and committed advice on complex legal issues
Our legal consultations are designed to serve as decision-making tools. Starting with a specific issue, we conduct an in-depth analysis of the context, the facts, and the relevant assumptions in order to provide you with a clear, substantiated legal response tailored to your situation.
After each consultation, you will have a well-structured, actionable position, grounded in solid legal sources and, where applicable, accompanied by clearly stated caveats. These consultations are particularly valuable in high-stakes situations, such as when making strategic decisions, conducting sensitive negotiations, resolving internal disputes, managing complex transactions, or preparing for potential litigation.
2. Freedom to operate
Protect your product launches, investments, and fundraising efforts
A freedom-to-operate study is essential to verify that a product or process does not infringe on third-party rights.
This work is essential to prevent disputes, production disruptions and a reduction in the company’s value. Investors are looking for a well-founded assessment of IP risks and opportunities.
A tailored and effective approach
Our approach combines legal expertise with strategic clarity to identify risks, explain them in an accessible manner, and propose appropriate solutions to mitigate or avoid them.
Given that freedom-to-operate studies can be time-consuming and very costly, we advise defining their scope according to your project stage using relevant criteria:
- key competitors,
- areas affected by the operation,
- critical technical characteristics.
This approach lets us focus on the patents that pose the greatest risk and conduct a deeper analysis of their technical and legal scope, validity, and strength.
3. Continuous monitoring
Stay ahead of the curve
Your brands operate in a highly competitive environment: third parties are filing, publishing, and opposing, often without your knowledge. Continuous monitoring is the system that ensures you are never caught off guard.
Specifically, we continuously monitor posts related to your brands in order to:
- anticipate infringements — identify a conflicting application before it is filed, while there is still time to act
- defend your positions — respond in a timely manner to file an opposition or initiate legal action
- seize opportunities — identify abandoned rights, unclaimed areas, or strategic moves by your competitors
4. Workaround strategies
Turning competing patents into a driver of innovation
When a restrictive patent blocks a project, the solution is not necessarily to give up: it is often to innovate in a different way.
Our method is based on:
- analysis of the limiting claim and its actual scope,
- review of prior and subsequent patents to identify areas of freedom,
- brainstorming sessions to develop technically viable, legally unencumbered, and commercially viable alternatives,
- verification of the freedom to operate and the patentability of the alternatives.