Patents

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As a business owner, you want to meet market demand and stay a step ahead of the competition. Patents can play an important role here. When you are choosing the right strategy and approach it is essential that these are in keeping with your situation. You can expect us to have skilled specialists in house with knowledge about your technology or business sector. V.O. helps a wide variety of clients in different sectors with their specific challenges. We adopt a tailor-made approach for each company where our starting point is always: IP is an important resource for enabling your idea or company to be more profitable.

Read below which services we provide related to patents or contact the right expert directly.

Patent application

Make your innovation profitable by dealing strategically with your intellectual property. Our specialists will support you in words and deeds with developing and implementing an IP strategy based on your company objectives. Whether it involves a patent application, drawing up agreements or support with infringement proceedings, our style of working is to the point and completely transparent.

Patent search

Each patent application is published by the patent-granting authority approximately 18 months after being filed. A patent is also published as soon as it has been granted. All these publications are included in patent databases and include a wealth of information about the applicants and their innovations. You can leverage this information intelligently for your innovation, product development or business strategy.

Confidentiality

Innovation costs time and money. Falling and getting up again means you must keep reinvesting. Especially if the market potential or the chance of imitation is high, and you want to ensure your invention is properly protected. You can achieve that through a patent but also with a non-disclosure or a combination of both. Because you also want to prevent information from being disclosed even before your patent application has been filed.

Valuation

How do you estimate the economic value of a patent? In collaboration with accounting and consultancy firm Baker Tilly, V.O. has developed a model that arrives at an estimation based on various factors. The model offers an alternative to the more extensive investigations that are often used to determine a patent’s value. In this way an estimate can be made relatively quickly and at lower cost.