START-UP
Start-up your IP Strategy
Based on successful experience with more than 200 start-ups, ICOSA is a leading IP law firm in healthcare.
Since 2009, ICOSA supports project leaders in their development and founding partners of start-up when they raise funds, on the topics that are essential to them:
Highlight the IP of the company
Make tangible the know-how
Build a portfolio of patents, trademarks, software
Assist in the negotiation of licenses or co-ownership contracts
Position IP in its environment (IP landscape)
Provide strategic information
Help set up and implement the company’s IP strategy
ICOSA’s strengths:
In-depth knowledge of the start-up ecosystem
The best IP tools
Strategies enhancing a competitive advantage
Close relationship with the patent Examiners
Fulfilling the investors’ expectations
IP related risk identification and mitigation
Flexible operations:
A first meeting to know your project and your needs
Workplan and budget according to your needs and priorities
On time
ICOSA helps:
At the beginning of a project
at the proof of concept or prototype step
When raising funds
To secure a partnership
INVESTORS
IP lights for investors
From its creation, ICOSA has been solicited by investors for Due Diligence. IP is often the major asset of start-ups. ICOSA’s know-how makes it possible to identify strengths and weaknesses and to understand all the potential, whether exploited or not, of the start-up.
ICOSA’s audits are based on six principles of effectiveness:
The knowledge of the sector of activity
The use of the best tools and databases
The reliability
The highlighting of the shadows
The recommendations to optimize forces
The general strategic view
What ICOSA’s audits bring:
The materialization of all immaterial assets of the company’s industrial property (patents, trademarks, software, designs, copyright, etc.)
Securing all these rights
The evaluation of the company’s key contracts, which involve Industrial Property (employment contracts, licenses, collaborations, consortium …)
A global vision on the company’s “IP health”
Quick turnaround times
Audits are often requested as part of an investment process and need to be done quickly
- ICOSA commits to turnaround times of less than 3 weeks