Services

Fellow and Affiliate
Member Services

The successful exploitation of intellectual property (IP) requires multi-disciplinary experience and skills - marketing, technological, IP protective, legal, financial and general management. All of these can be found amongst the Fellows of the Institute.

Fellows assist their clients by providing independent advice and information on most aspects of the development and commercialisation of technology and invention, and by implementing "inward" or "outward" licensing programmes.

Assessment of Intellectual Property
Undertaking technical and market appraisals to assess the likelihood of success for new technologies, products and processes.

New Opportunity
Searches/Diversification Carrying out searches for clients seeking new technologies, new products, processes or services available forcommercialisation under a licence agreement – “inward” licensing.

Establishing Licence Agreements
Planning and implementing searches for prospective commercial partners capable of exploiting clients' technology and invention under a licence, franchise, joint venture or similar type of agreement - "outward" licensing.

Negotiation
Advising clients on the content and framework of licence and other agreements, drafting heads of agreement and negotiating the terms of the licence on behalf of clients.

Licence Management
Monitoring for clients licensees' performance of licence and other agreements to ensure that all obligations are met, dates are adhered to, royalty payments are made and that any possible sources of dispute are anticipated and avoided.

Other Services
Fellows also provide many other services related to both the development and commercialisation of invention, and to new opportunity searchwork, according to their expertise and fields of specialisation. These include:

Acquisition Advice
Business Plan Preparation
Counselling & Training
Dispute Resolution
Drafting Agreements
Expert Witness Evidence
Funding Advice
Innovation Strategy
Intellectual Asset Management
Legal Advice
Market Research
Patent & Trade Mark Advice
Product Research
Prototyping & Design
SME Diversification
SME Innovation
Technical Appraisals
Technology Audits
Technology Databank Searches
User Research

To obtain the services of Fellows of the Institute see Help & Advice