IP Value

How important is intellectual property for business?

26 October 2022 · Articles, IP Value

How important is intellectual property to business?

Your Business Intellectual Property needs to be relevant for your stage of development and the type the competitive marketplace you operate in.

25 October 2022 · Articles, IP Value

Do investors care if we don’t own our Intellectual Property (IP)?

Having IP is important to investors as it provides confidence that there are barriers to competitors copying your business.

24 October 2022 · Articles, IP Value

Does Intellectual Property help business grow?

Intellectual Property can help a business to protect competitive advantage, defend market share and support growth.

21 October 2022 · Articles, Innovation, IP Value

What are trade secrets? Does my company need trade secrets?

Trade secrets are one of your most valuable IP rights yet most companies have not taken simple steps to identify, value and protect them You don’t really have trade secrets until you have a trade secrets programme…

19 October 2022 · Articles, IP Value

Is Patent Box only for engineering companies?

Engineering companies do benefit from the Patent Box, but so do companies in a range of other sectors.

18 October 2022 · Articles, IP Value

What is due diligence?

Would you hire a head of cyber security who had links to the KGB ? Such due diligence is usually quite a serious and thorough exercise. However, it appears due diligence may be more of a laughing matter (or not!) to the Germans: It took a comedian, Jan Böhmermann, to reveal that the German Head of […]

Does the whole of the product need to be patented to qualify for patent box relief?

18 October 2022 · Articles, Innovation, IP Value

Patent box: Does the whole product need to be patented?

Only one essential element of how the product or service works needs to be patented to qualify for patent box relief

14 October 2022 · Articles, IP Value

Breaking news…..Patent Box could save you 60% on corporation tax.

In the UK if you have a patent on a product that is successful in the market place you might be able to reduce your corporation tax by 60%

13 October 2022 · Articles, Innovation, IP Value

Is Intellectual Property important when expanding overseas?

Do you have ‘freedom’ to operate in your chosen market? Or will a rival accuse you of Intellectual Property infringement? Biocompatibles: “The UK patent minnow in the US patent shark pool”

11 October 2022 · Articles, IP Value

How valuable is reputation?

Reputation is a very significant intangible asset that no one person in any business is managing

In the UK if you have a patent on a product that is successful in the market place you might be able to reduce your corporation tax by nearly 50%

6 October 2022 · Articles, IP Value

Psst…..Patent Box could save you 47% on corporation tax. Want to know how?

In the UK if you have a patent on a product that is successful in the market place you might be able to reduce your corporation tax by nearly 50%

28 September 2022 · Articles, Innovation, IP Value

Are there any financial benefits available for innovation?

In the UK if you have a patent on a product that is successful in the market place you might be able to reduce your corporation tax by nearly 50%.