Coordinating Intellectual Property
Protection with Financing
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- Loss or lack of intellectual property rights and protection can impact financing success
- Initial public offerings and other financial arrangements require the identification and protection of intellectual property
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Marketing and Leveraging Intellectual
Property Protection
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- Patents provide credibility to attract venture capitalists and corporate partners and potential investors
- Increase salability of technology and company
- Help set you apart from the competition
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Enforcement Strategy
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- Protection of intellectual property is meaningless if it is not properly and adequately enforced
- Develop an enforcement strategy and plan. Proper intellectual property insurance is essential to support technology protection
strategy, technology enforcement strategy and financing strategy.
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 Intellectual property protection helps preserve a particular market for a fledgling company even against a larger, more established company in the same or similar market.
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 Licensing royalty revenue can be a major source of income for a company that aggressively acquires intellectual property protection and vigorously enforces that protection.
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 Patents define new technology which is the essence of any company. They can provide marketing information for targeting specific niches.
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