HLF has extensive experience evaluating and managing intellectual property assets, particularly patents and trade secrets. The firm’s principal brings an in-house approach to IP management services, focusing on asset use and value as a top priority rather than mere numbers. Services in this area include:
- Best practices advice for whether formal legal opinions, like freedom to operate, are necessary
- Intellectual property management, or designing targeted methodology for managing IP
- IP due diligence for potential investors, acquirers or licensees (including chain of title)
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- Legal opinions (e.g., patentability, validity, infringement, freedom to operate)
- IP audits / evaluating IP assets vs. commercial product or market and strategic significance
- Strategic advice to enhance portfolio value
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