Occasions where you might need an Extra Pair of IP Hands include
- Due diligence. The need to conduct a review of intellectual property assets before engaging in investments.
- Parental or Maternity leave. Your in house trademark or patent agent or IP research staff, IP legal staff, is leaving for a maternity or parental leave, so you need a replacement for a limited period of time.
- Litigation. Your company is either contemplating IP litigation or is being drawn into litigation under third party IP rights and wishes to add some outside industry expertise to your internal IP legal and corporate team.
- Merger and Acquisitions and Leveraged Buyouts. Accountants, investment bankers as well as investors, confronted with IP issues related to a transactions, need experienced practitioners temporarily added to their team to provide industry insights as well as strategic assistance or IP market research, assessing IP risks, valuating IP assets or IP due diligence.
- Bankruptcy or Financial Distress. You need assistance to liquidate IP rights, or find buyers for IP assets, or spin off IP assets. If you are a bankruptcy administrator or court appointed lawyer or accountant for a financially distressed or bankrupt company we provide the temporary IP professional to add to your team.
- Licensing opportunities arise but your organization does not have sufficient manpower or knowledge to set up a Licensing Program.
IP Hire does not provide litigation support. We do not replace your IP trial attorneys, but we provide in-house (temporary or interim) support for IP legal, managerial and technical staff. We also provide temporary patent or trademark attorneys.
We recognize the need to maintain strict privacy rules. Names and backgrounds of our professionals are only used to fulfill the temporary employment needs of companies and organizations. In doing so we maintain the highest compliance standards, and have implemented the necessary practices in order to ensure a smooth flexible temporary IP employment process.