Our Products & Services

We develop comprehensive AI-enabled product and service to enable enterprises,
organizations and governments to achieve improved efficiencies, cost optimization,
enhanced brand perception and promote greater customer centricity.

Intellectual Property Investment Banking Services

Working with licensed financial advisors across all markets, Intellectual Futures provides IP-based investment banking services and products to corporations with intangible assets who are looking for ways to leverage their intellectual property assets for value extraction. As the value of corporations increasingly becomes a function of their IP value, Intellectual Futures’ Investment Banking services seek to assist our clients to remain at the forefront of value extraction, monetization and profit maximization.

Intellectual Futures assists our clients to raise financing through:

• IP-based Collateralization
• IP-based Securitization
• IP-based Private Equity and Venture Capital Financing

Strategic Advisory Services

We also provide advisory services in connection with a wide range of strategic financial matters strategic IP-driven transactions, mergers and acquisitions, IP portfolio optimization and rationalization, and competitive positioning. As part of IP-based financing process, we provide IP due diligence services supported by legal and financial due diligence services.

IP Securitization

The number of securitizations using IP as the underlying asset has increased significantly. This is a result of companies leveraging their IP royalty cash flows into collateral to achieve a lower cost of funding. Intellectual Futures facilitates IP securitizations by acting as a strategic adviser managing and liquidating the IP assets in the case of an issuer default or other event of distress. By doing so, Intellectual Futures is able to address the concerns of bond holders and rating agencies.

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Patent Services

We provide patent services aimed at making the process of patenting as simple and efficient as possible. We provide companies with services such as patent drafting, patent prosecution, and IP portfolio development.

If you require patent filing services, our services include:

• Evaluate and advise on patentability of your innovation or invention (or just ideas)
• Perform search on prior art
• Draft patent specifications
• File patent applications
• Obtain utility model protection
• Response to written opinions, examination reports or office actions
• Manage patent portfolios
• Advise on patent infringement and validity
• Represent in patent oppositions and support in patent litigation cases
• Perform patent portfolio audit

Prior Art Search

One of the first steps in the patent process is a search of previous technology in order to check if the idea, or something similar to it, has already been patented or publicly disclosed. A proper prior art search usually requires extensive technical background and expertise in patent law. However, even with these qualifications, it can be time consuming to sift through millions of patents, current applications, and abandoned ones. Our team can assist you in navigating existing prior art in a time-efficient fashion, which is crucial to how quickly the patent is issued.

US Patent Drafting

We draft our patents to provide the most complete protection available in the industry. A Utility Patent is issued for the invention of a new and useful process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, or a new and useful improvement thereof. It generally permits its owner to exclude others from making, using, or selling the invention for a period of up to twenty years from the date of filing. We have patent firm partners comprising experienced inventors and engineers and who understand the technical details behind your inventions and intellectual property.

US Provisional Patents

A provisional patent application is easier to file and preserves your application in confidence without publishing it. Having a provisional patent will give you one year to assess the invention’s potential before committing further funds and energy to your idea. It also gives the opportunity to begin commercial promotion using the "Patent Pending" notice in connection with your invention. However, if you do not proceed with the process of obtaining a full patent, your provisional patent will be abandoned after 12 months.

Patent Prosecution

Legal expertise is required in patent prosecution. We work with partners experienced in USPTO Track 1 Prioritized Examination Procedure, with some patents successfully issued in as little as two to four months. Every step possible is taken to reduce rejections and appeals. Whether prosecuting patents that we have written or taking over for a patent drafted by someone else, we aim to get the patent successfully issued in the shortest amount of time possible.

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Strategic Intellectual Property Management Services

Strategic IP Value Creation

The measure of competitiveness among enterprises will increasingly be driven by an enterprise’s ability to innovate, create and exploit new types of economic assets built from knowledge capital. Intellectual property which is a key by-product of innovation is a critical component of an enterprise’s knowledge capital. A key aspect of innovation management is the legal protection of ideas through intellectual property rights management and legal enforcement.

Intellectual Futures provide strategic IP services to corporations, governments, international organizations, trade bodies, industry associations and other organizations focusing on strategic IP value creation.

Enterprises with an exploitable portfolio of intellectual property assets are better positioned for market dominance. In this shift towards the knowledge-based economy, enterprises with a strong portfolio of intellectual assets have a much greater chance of securing profitability. Intellectual asset management is about designing a structured framework at the enterprise level to manage intellectual assets in a manner that enables the enterprise to extract commercial value of its intellectual assets particularly its intellectual property rights. New strategies, tools and techniques have evolved to allow intellectual assets to be exploited optimally for revenue generation and to build shareholder value.

Strategic Management of IP Assets Program

This intensive program provides an intensive management-oriented guide on key aspects of IP asset management, a key practice area that will increasingly impact the business performance of enterprises and nations. Aimed at industry players and policy makers, this program seeks to share insights on the following issues:

• How IP assets can be leveraged as a tool for competitive advantage for enterprises and nations;
• Identification of key economic, legal & business issues in the design, development and management of strategic IP policy at the both the corporate and national levels;
• Introduction of key legal concepts in the protection and management of digital IP assets including auditing of government IP assets in e-government projects; and
• Outline key legal & business risk management principles that organizations should adopt as part of their IP asset management policy

Strategic Licensing & Technology Commercialization

The technology business, especially those dealing with patentable technology, whether ICT, biotechnology or engineering technology display different and often unique business models, processes and characteristics from “traditional” businesses. In today’s innovation-driven technology economy, intellectual property rights (eg patents and copyrights) and brands in technology assets are a business’ most valuable asset. But the commercialization of such technology and IP assets is much more complicated than the commercialization of “traditional” goods and services. And strategic licensing is key to successful commercialization strategies.

Intellectual Futures assist companies, governments and organizations to comprehensively address end to end issues in technology commercialization, especially newer ones, from R&D to market. Commercializing technology through a robust and strategic licensing program is often the best way to exploit technology assets – a common strategy in industries such as electronics, computing, telecommunications, biotechnology and pharmaceuticals. By licensing their intellectual property to other companies better positioned to penetrate certain markets, firms can fully utilize technology assets when they may not have the resources to do so on their own. Through a structured strategic licensing program, Intellectual Futures helps organizations develop an integrated strategy to generate sustainable revenue. At the end of any engagement, these organizations will learn the step by step approach to develop a:

• Technology commercialization strategy
• Strategic IP management program
• Strategic licensing program

IP Acquisition & Inbound Licensing

Acquiring IP and technology, especially strategic ones, can ramp up an organization’s IP value creation program. This would require careful study of technology and IP opportunities on a global basis to develop windows of business opportunities that can be seized through IP or technology acquisition

Intellectual Futures provide the range of services related to IP and technology acquisition including:

• Building relationships with research group, university technology transfer groups, startups and others, to source advanced technology IP opportunities.
• Finding and evaluating patent acquisition opportunities that could help fill potential future product gaps.
• Helping plan and prioritize intellectual property technology acquisition areas.
• Evaluating candidate technologies for acquisition, licensing and investment.
• Working with the client company’s IP business and legal teams to execute transactions.

Knowledge and Financial Franchise

Apart from “traditional” product franchise, Intellectual Futures specializes in the design, development and implementation of knowledge and financial franchise with an emphasis on how intellectual capital owners can codify, manualize and systematize their intellectual capital asset for value creation through licensing or franchising.

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Systems Services

Intellectual Futures designs and develop cloud-based Intellectual Capital Management (ICM) or Intellectual Property Management (IPM) Systems aimed at improving efficiency and productivity to drive value creation. We typically tailor our solutions to suit the needs of our clients depending on which industry they are in.

Our IP portfolio management software and consulting services help our clients streamline processes, collaborate across their organization and get to market faster. This way they can make strategic decisions with confidence to protect and maximize the value of their IP portfolio. Our ICM system enables our clients to collaborate between departments, speed decision making and protect critical assets.

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