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Patent Services and Protection

Patent Portfolio Assessment and Management
The purpose of Intellectual Property is to protect the company’s assets and prevent others from getting a free ride on your precious R&D and marketing efforts. If this strategy working for you ? To find out you need to balance the cost of R&D with the revenue from patenting. The revenues can be implicit in a patent protected product range or explicit in terms of license fee revenues. Let Operational Risk Management Consulting assess your portfolio, its profitability and ways it can be improved by, for example licensee audits.

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Patent Searches
RiskMentor.org can help you with difficult patent searches for e.g. patent invalidation or provide an independent analysis pursuant of an MBO, LBO or pre-IPO financing. We are experienced in searching patents of all countries including Asian countries and can assist with patent translation too. We can help you find that obscure Japanese prior art which can sink a patent if found too late.

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Japanese Patent Translation
Never was so much money wasted on poor translation as in translating patents to and from Japanese. A common pitfall is to select on price and rue the day when patents are challenged. Because patent systems in Japan and other countries are different, simple translation is not enough, but accurate and clear translation would help ! Let RiskMentor.org assess your current methods and, where necessary, suggest improvements.

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License Negotiation and Licensee Management
A recent survey found that less than half of companies carry out licensee audits and less than a quarter do so regularly. In an age when good patent management results in healthy license (Royalty) revenues, why not manage the revenue stream and make sure you are not being short changed ? A licensee audit by Operational Risk Management Consulting goes beyond paper reports from licensees and analyses the inventories of raw materials, production equipment and shipping records to find the real numbers, independent of the reported numbers. This activity is guaranteed to be self funding.

Patent and Trademark Infringement Surveys and Investigations
It starts as a rumor, or one salesman coming back from an unsuccessful sales call and if followed-up, infringement of your patent or Tm by a competitor or counterfeiter is the reality. RiskMentor.org can go where others fear to go to find the truth and prove the infringement. Our long experience in such investigations in many countries ensures an intelligent and cost effective approach. But why wait for that heart stopping rumor or report, you should be out there surveying the market looking for infringers, it’s a core activity, not a hobby. We can do it for you in obscure corners, visit trade exhibitions in China or Korea and buy samples; The sooner you know the sooner you can protect your profits.

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Events

16.01.08

Webcast of Interview at iTV-Asia of Michael O'Keeffe, Founder of Risk Mentor

Presentation April 18th on Patent Filing Trends in China by companies of US (IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Motorola, HP), Japanese (Matsushita, SONY, Seiko Epson, Canon, NEC), Korean (Samsung and LG Electronics), EU (Siemens, Alcatel, Nokia, Ericsson)

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