Intellectual property for electronics and computing
When you’re developing new products and systems, it’s vital to respect any existing patents, while also protecting your own intellectual property (IP).
In the world of electronics and software, IP can be incredibly complex and competitive. Our specialist intellectual property service team can help you in a number of areas, including patent review, IP landscaping and technology roadmaps.
Simplifying the complexities, we’ll ensure you fully understand your position and can make informed decisions.
Patent review
IP landscaping
Technology roadmap
Patent review
Our consultants can review patents for you to help you understand any existing IP. This critical review will enable you to ensure that you have achieved a sufficient coverage of your invention in your patent to ensure protection of your IP. It will also help you to better understand existing patents and how they may affect your product or invention.
The interface between inventors and patent lawyers can need some careful management to ensure you realise your end goal. Our consultants have worked with a number of patent lawyers and are well versed in both explaining technical content to them and explaining the lawyers’ intentions to the inventors. Through this service, our specialist IP team will help streamline the patent application process, ensuring you achieve the best possible outcome.
We can support you with:
- Critical review of existing IP
- Liaising with IP lawyers
IP landscaping
Before starting a new IP development, it can be helpful to carry out an IP landscaping exercise to understand what patents already exist in your market.
During this process, it is best to review all the relevant patents to understand any overlaps or potential issues you might have. Our experienced IP consultants will help you identify any existing patents and review the content of them. We’ll then present an overview of the IP landscape to you in an easily accessible format.
During this process, you may find that your freedom to operate with your new IP is restricted. If this is the case, our consultants will advise you on alternative technologies or methods that will allow you to circumvent the existing patents.
Technology roadmap
Our specialist IP consultants will work with you to map out long- and short-term strategic goals for your technology.
We’ll provide invaluable industry insights to help you ensure your goals can be realised. We can also support you with feasibility studies and identification of the technology readiness levels (TRLs) of key technologies.
During a feasibility study, we can investigate how achievable your technology goals are by carrying out a number of activities. As part of the process, we’ll look to create works-like prototypes to test the intended functionality of your product. We can also carry out detailed paper-based studies to enhance your understanding of how the product might behave. Finally, we can carry out a cost analysis to demonstrate the potential COGS of the technology, and also carry out a detailed cost-benefit analysis.
We can support you with:
- Long- and short-term strategic goals
- Industry insights
- Feasibility studies
- TRL analysis
- Works-like prototypes
- Paper-based studies
- Cost and cost-benefit analysis
To find out more about our intellectual property services, or to discuss your next technology project, please get in touch. We’re ready and waiting to help.
