IP Value

13 December 2022 · Articles, Copyright, Innovation, IP Value

Swift and painful intellectual property lessons

This is where contract law, copyright and business intellectual property work closely together,

5 December 2022 · Articles, IP Value

Why do some brands have long legs?

How do you transform a family owned plastic children’s play brick business that is much copied and counterfeited into one that sits alongside luxury goods brands?

Patent box and R&D tax credits explained

28 November 2022 · Articles, Innovation, IP Value

There have been some recent changes to R&D Tax Credit and Patent Box, how will these affect your business?

Innovation Incentive Schemes explained by Claritas Tax. Innovation incentives are designed to support innovative and high growth companies. R&D Tax Credits and Patent Box are two such schemes in the UK. The R&D tax credit scheme has been around for over 20 years and the patent box scheme for about half of that time. The […]

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25 November 2022 · Articles, Innovation, IP Value

What if one person in your business knows too much?

Programmes to identify and capture know-how and trade secrets will mean you businesses is less reliant on key individuals, I’m better able to identify and enter protect the items from which it derives competitive advantage in the marketplace.

24 November 2022 · Articles, Innovation, IP Value

Can I still claim on Patent Box if my patents aren’t granted yet?

Can I still claim on Patent Box if my patents aren’t granted yet? You can still claim for the time between patent application and grant Once the patent is granted you can make a claim for the profits arising from the patented product or service, for the time from when the patent application was submitted and the time it took to obtain the granted patent.

22 November 2022 · Articles, IP Value

Who is stealing your confidential information?

Is it your employees, partners or hackers? Everybody has the right to earn a living and many people think this right extends to removing confidential information from one employer and moving it to the next. What do I mean by confidential information? Business plans, test results, competitive analysis, customer database, non-patented inventions, software code, algorithms, […]

15 November 2022 · Articles, IP Value

Patent box vs R&D tax credits

Can you claim patent box on the same thing as you have claimed R&D tax credits on ? Yes. Actually you must have carried out R&D on the patented item to be able to claim patent box relief anyway Patent Box claims can be highly valuable to your business – reducing corporation tax payable on […]

9 November 2022 · Articles, IP Value

What is the value of a brand?

£3.4m in the case of Made.com Out of administration the value of this brand will be lower than if it were a going concern The Made.com brand was sold to British fashion retailer Next for £3.4 million, after the online furniture seller went into administration. Next bought the made.com brand, website and intellectual property from administrators […]

8 November 2022 · Articles, IP Value

Patent box does it cover software?

There are many misconceptions as to whether software can be protected with intellectual property – the answer is it can be protected.

7 November 2022 · Articles, IP Value, Trademark

What can Kanye West teach you about Intellectual Property?

A couple of key lessons in October 2022 apparently: 1. When signing a long term business deal with a partner make sure to clearly outline who will own the intellectual property after the relationship ends: In October Adidas broke up with Kanye terminating a multi $bn shoe partnership ……the Adidas lawyers made sure they were […]

3 November 2022 · Articles, Innovation, IP Value

Patent box: should the patent cover the whole product?

One patent over one essential element, qualifies the whole of the profit derived from the product or service for patent box.

1 November 2022 · Articles, IP Value

Patent Box: is it worth the effort?

Is the benefit worth it? It depends whether a 47% to 60% reduction in tax payable on qualifying profits is interesting to you? Patent box claims can be very valuable to a UK business, even more so when corporation tax increases to 25% next April It takes a bit of effort to set it up […]