The successful intellectual property rights strategy evaluates:
- the market
- the countries in which protection is necessary
- the best time to file a patent or other type of application
- and it defines the appropriate application types (patent, trademark, utility model, design, etc.)
and it focuses on
- protecting your technology or process and its further development, and/or
- preventing your competitors from obtaining protection of competing technologies.
The basis of the strategy is solid IPR-based business intelligence as well as a thorough insight into competitive issues affecting the relevant technologies.