Any intellectual property you might own is an exceptionally
valuable commodity regardless of the size of your business.
However, as an SME it is absolutely critical that your IP portfolio
is as robust and comprehensive as it can be, with a strategy
tailored to help you commercialise and make the most of your ideas;
from protecting your inventions with patents to safeguarding your
trade secrets, and everything in between.
These ten top tips will help give some direction as to what you
need to consider and how we at HLK can best assist you in taking
your business to the next level.
1. Recognising your assets
This may seem obvious and unnecessary to say, but to maximise
the commercial value of your IP, you need to know what IP you might
actually own or seek protection for! However, this is not always
obvious, and assets may slip through the net. It is equally
important to realise what assets you may have thought you owned
but, in actual fact, do not; as well as
