Avancept’s Service Offerings
Avancept’s advisory services have been developed to solve the real problems faced by corporations, investors, law firms, and others confronting business issues around Intellectual Property and to help these same clients maximize the opportunities that arise from IP Assets. We offer two service categories – services for companies, investors, and others dealing directly with IP Assets and Business-to-Business services for IP service providers.
Corporate IP Strategy
We will help you understand your company’s IP Assets & develop a plan for using those assets to enhance and complement your corporate strategies and business plans. We will integrate your IP strategy with your overall corporate strategy.
IP Asset Development
We can help you identify your IP assets and take the legal measures needed to develop and protect them. We can draft patents, develop trade secret protection programs, and help you protect your other IP Assets.
IP Due Diligence
For buyers, we will conduct investor/purchaser side due diligence on the IP assets held by a prospective target. For sellers, we will help them maximize the value of their IP Assets and assist them presenting the company’s overall IP picture in the best possible light.
Virtual CIPO
We provide companies with an outsourced chief intellectual property officer. The virtual CIPO service is geared for companies that are either too small to have their own full-time CIPO or for companies where IP Assets play a small role in the overall corporate strategy.
Invention Harvesting
Avancept provides a unique IP Asset harvesting service focused on identifying, developing, and protecting intangible assets. Our service captures latent innovations in a business’ ongoing development activities and can be used to stimulate cross-functional teams in the development of forward-looking IP assets.
IP Financial Modeling
Our consultant team has developed customized financial models that benchmark a company’s return from its IP assets. This service can be performed with or without the cooperation of the company/entity modeled. Clients may find the service helpful, for example, during the due diligence process for an acquisition.
IP Audit & Governance
We will review and catalog your IP Assets, assist you in developing a plan for these assets, and establish a corporate governance structure for your IP Assets.
Benchmarking
Avancept provides both a quantitative and qualitative benchmarking service for technology companies in all sectors. We can categorize and analyze the IP assets held by companies of all sizes.
IP Advisory Services
We can help you develop your IP business model and service offerings. We can help you expand your service offerings, and we can assist you with appropriate IP service brandings and corporate metaphors to help tailor the look of your IP services and enhance your firm’s or consultancy’s competitive advantage. Avancept prefers to provide this service on a long-tail revenue share basis.
Acquisition & Deposition
Our consultants have the skills to assess the quantitative and the qualitative aspects of an IP portfolio, together with an ability to identify companies that would benefit from all or parts of the portfolio.
White Label Services
We are pleased to operate as a virtual staff member in your business and provide IP services directly to end-user customers, subject to the limits of various bar association ethics limitations. We can provide any of the services listed above under our IP Asset Services, as well as many others. Avancept is amenable to providing these services in accordance with a variety of business models.
IP Budgeting & Planning
We will align your corporate IP strategy and IP budget so as to obtain the best collection of IP assets at the lowest possible price. We will identify unnecessary expenses and develop a plan for eliminating them.