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BUILD, MANAGE AND STRENGTHEN YOUR BRAND THROUGH PERSONALIZED TRADEMARK STRATEGY. Intellectual Property strategy is not a one size fits all approach and it is more than just filing patents. This
IP Searching & Analytics
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Tap into our specialized expertise, technical skills and industry resources to maximize your competitive intelligence. Better results lead to more informed decisions.
Patents and trademarks provide more than simply the opportunity to protect your innovative idea. We have extensive patent and trademark searching tools and deep expertise in IP analytics to help meet client needs. Whether you are developing or monitoring your brand or extracting business insight from patent databases using landscapes, white space analysis, trends or competitive watch, our experts can help.
Using IP analytics, our clients improve their business outcomes by fostering evidence-based decision-making. With the abundance of data, it is important to distill actionable insight from complex information-dense problems to advance corporate priorities.
Stratford Intellectual Property is a unique full-service patent and trademark agency. We have several registered patent and trademark agents on our team with a wide range of expertise. We have the ability to file in Canada, US, and WIPO directly and have an extensive network of foreign associates. Our value add comes from our unique approach to IP Strategy development and implementation.
Why Stratford?
Stratford utilizes IP analytics experts to survey the industry landscape as it relates to the client’s portfolio, strategy and future goals. A strong offensive and defensive portfolio often relies on the results of searching and landscaping activities.
Actionable insights
Leverage IP assets, prioritize actions, make better decisions
Intuitive strategy
Offensive, proactive strategies based on real-world conditions & competitor activity
Strengthened applications
Tailor IP applications based on industry conditions
Value realization
Evidence-based valuation leading to streamlined assets & informed negotiations
Actionable insights
Leverage IP assets, prioritize actions, make better decisions
Intuitive strategy
Offensive, proactive strategies based on real-world conditions & competitor activity
Strengthened applications
Tailor IP applications based on industry conditions
Value realization
Evidence-based valuation leading to streamlined assets & informed negotiations
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IP STRATEGY ACADEMY
Your journey into the world of IP strategy starts here!
Access resources and tools to help you learn, explore and discover more about IP and how it adds value to your organization.
COMMON IP MYTHS & MISTAKES
IP strategy mistakes cause costly or irreversible errors while myths give a false sense of security. To help here is a list of common myths & mistakes you should avoid.
IP QUESTIONS FOR BOARD MEMBERS
As a key driver of company metrics, IP needs to be managed proactively & cost-effectively. Here are some questions to regularly put on board meeting agendas.
IP
STRATEGY ACADEMY
Your journey into the world of IP strategy starts here!
Access resources and tools to help you learn, explore and discover more about IP and how it adds value to your organization.
Our sector specific expertise ensures that you achieve the best protection possible. Join other Life Sciences companies who are implementing our pragmatic IP strategy solutions:
We are pleased with Stratford’s IP Strategy Review. The Stratford team has helped us identify key innovators, as well as gaining visibility on the focus areas and recent patent filing trends in the industry. The report has been supplemental to our company's IP strategy and business goals. The team also provided follow-on recommendations to our future IP searches based on the findings from the report. Also big thanks to the IP Assist program from IRAP, who supported our work with Stratford.
We have been working with the team at Stratford for several months as a VIP Strategic Solutions client and we have been very happy with how they are handling our IP portfolio and overall strategy. It is rare to find an IP firm that approaches IP management so holistically.
At the outset, Stratford took the time to listen and understand our business goals and long-term plans, so that their IP recommendations align with our overall corporate objectives. Stratford also assisted us in formalizing internal processes to ensure that inventions are disclosed, catalogued, and filed promptly and properly.
We are confident in both our IP strategy and that our day-to-day matters are being diligently managed. Stratford ensured that our innovation and technology is protected and that nothing is missed. We know that we are in good hands.
Our corporation engaged with Stratford Intellectual Property to undertake an IP strategy review. We wanted to ensure our intellectual property value is maximized and have been working with them to identify ways to be more proactive in the protection of our IP. As a small company, we rely on industry partner relationships when bringing innovations to market, therefore having a solid IP strategy is important to us. The results of the review and the discussions, that led to the customized report, were high impact and identified opportunities and offered immediate solutions to potential risks we weren’t even aware of. Stratford’s IP experts provided prioritized actionable steps and we are implementing several of them.
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Our Approach
We leverage our technical, business, and intellectual property background to help companies strategically leverage their innovations and develop intellectual property asset positions. Particularly by streamlining the process by having in-house search experts allowing for direct communication and synergistic iterations to obtain value-added results.
Our queries and searches can be tailored to extract results that support the following stages of the IP lifecycle:
“Stratford worked with us to create and obtain our patent portfolio which created additional assets for our company. This has increased our credibility with our customers and investors, something of real value to a startup.”
LEVERAGE ANALYTIC FINDINGS
Patent databases are a gold mine of competitive and industry intelligence. When searched properly, they can provide useful business intelligence. The results of IP searching and analytics can inform many aspects of your IP strategy.
Searching
- Extended patentability search
- Invalidity search
- Direct hit patent search
- Landscape
- Competitive watch
Analytics
- Whitespace analysis
- Foreign filing strategy
- Understand competitive landscape
- Utilize findings for product development
- Develop and safeguard freedom to operate
- Licensing & divestiture
- Asset acquisition
- Proactive identification of infringement threats
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