We learn about your business and work with leadership teams, legal teams, technical teams and investors to ensure that IP decisions are aligned with commercial priorities, risk appetite and long-term value creation.
Often, the first IP hire is a more junior patent attorney or IP manager who can help with day-to-day patent administration, invention capture and external attorney coordination. That can be valuable, but it does not always provide the senior strategic experience and judgement needed to shape an IP function, support transactions, manage risk, or advise the board.
A fractional IP advisor provides scalable access to senior expertise without the cost, time and rigidity of a permanent senior hire. You can bring in the right level of experience when you need it, whether that is for a defined project, regular advisory support, transaction readiness, IP contractual support, portfolio review, commercialisation planning or interim IP leadership.
Our fractional IP advisor service can support:
Helping you define what IP should achieve for the business, how it supports commercial objectives, and where protection, enforcement, licensing or risk mitigation should be prioritised.
Reviewing patent portfolios, identifying gaps and weaknesses, improving filing discipline, supporting prosecution strategy, and ensuring spend is focused on commercially relevant assets.
Creating practical processes for identifying, assessing and protecting new inventions, designs, know-how, software, data and brand assets.
Helping identify freedom-to-operate risks, ownership issues, open source exposure, contractor and employee IP gaps, competitor patent risks, and transaction diligence issues before they become deal blockers.
Preparing IP positions for fundraising, acquisition, sale, due diligence, licensing discussions or strategic partnerships.
Acting as an experienced internal-facing IP lead to manage outside patent attorneys, reduce unnecessary spend, improve instructions, and ensure advice is commercially focused.
Our service helps businesses understand what they own, what they should protect, where they are exposed, how their IP supports commercial value, and how to make informed decisions about investment, risk and opportunity.
If your business needs senior IP input but is not ready for a full-time hire, our fractional IP advisor service provides a flexible way to access experienced IP leadership when you need it.
Get flexible IP support that scales with your business, from light-touch advice to regular strategic input.
