Intellectual property protection is a crucial aspect of a legal and business strategy to ensure that IP are profitable. These IPassets should provide a competitive advantage to the business within...
The ever-increasing number of IP applications across multiple jurisdictions has contributed to the rising costs of intellectual property protection for businesses, which has made IP benchmarking all...
Perhaps unfortunately for law firms, a request for proposal (RFP) is becoming a standard element of many companies’ efforts to obtain legal services. For the corporate, legal services RFPs can bring...
The role of an intellectual property counsel is to be a legal advisor for the internal business as well as a manager of external activities related to the legal and IP strategy. Similar to the...
According to an assessment by accountancy firm PwC, intangible assets can account for up to 75% of a company’s value. And brand equity is often the key driver of a company’s success. This has...
The pressure on legal departments to manage the costs of intellectual property management is continuously rising. This is due in part to the increased costs of managing IP assets as well as the...
There is always pressure on costs. Indeed, an in-house legal team is often seen purely as a cost centre, which can make discussions over budgeting challenging.
As much as we might wish it were different, it’s a fact of life that an in-house legal team will have to justify their legal plans to senior management. It’s also a fact that good plans on their own...
It’s a common challenge for in-house legal departments: how to achieve better results with fewer resources.
On its own, it should be relatively straightforward to improve results. Similarly, it...
Brandstock provides value to our clients by drastically simplifying administration and reducing the cost of large-scale IP projects.