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We help innovators value, protect and commercialise innovation outcomes and manage the commercial/legal risks that all innovators face. Our clients range from technology start-up companies through to prestigious medical research organisations. Our services are top-tier firm quality but, due to the efficiency of our practices and our business model, are significantly less expensive. Our main services and activities are listed below.
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Management of IP and Innovation Risks
We help you manage the risks you face as an innovator. The scrolling list below shows some of the issues we will help you manage (see the "innovation is a risky business" box above for more info).
Key services include:
Helping with project feasibility/approval based on commercial (eg NPV) and IP/legal analysis
Providing innovation/IP management reviews, training and advice to improve your approach to the capture and management of intellectual property rights, all with a view to helping you:
- ensure you end up owning the IP you expect to own
- reduce the risk of your activities causing you to be sued by others
- improve your prospects of deriving a return on your investment in innovation
Examples of how we can help you: Click the "full list" button on the left for a complete list of ways we can help you.
Legal and Commercial Professional Services
We provide a range of premium quality legal and commercial professional services, with a focus on the particular needs of innovative and high-technology organisations.
Legal: We help with contract negotiation (including project/collaboration and licensing/commercialisation agreements) and provide general commercial legal advice and representation, all with a focus on IP and other commercial legal issues faced by innovators and high-technology organisations.
Commercial: We help with: strategy development; business plans and marketing plans; capital raising; accessing government grants and R&D tax concessions; preparing tenders; business development and marketing; business performance measurement and business management.
Examples of how we can help you: Click the "full list" button on the left for a complete list of ways we can help you.

Investing in and Incubating Technology and Innovation
Are you looking for investors? We invest directly in suitable prospects and also help innovators and high-technology organisations with the capital raising process. Please contact us to discuss your proposal and your needs.

Valuation, Protection and Commercialisation of Innovation
We take care of the commercialisation process so you can focus on what you're best at - innovation and your core business. The scrolling list below shows some of the many issues we will help you manage.
We reduce - and can share - your risks: Although we help directly with many of the key steps, the key to our business model is that we manage, on your behalf, a network of service providers who work as a coordinated team throughout the commercialisation process.
Our premium quality services and our unique approach allow us - and possibly others in our network of professional partners - to make some or all (if your innovation is promising enough) of our fees conditional on your success. This 'centralised coordination and shared risk' model decreases your costs and increases your prospects of success.
Some context - the problem: The challenge for innovators is to access and coordinate the skills needed to manage the entire commercialisation process. Most innovators run out of cash and energy before their innovation derives any returns. Often, had the commercialisation process been better managed, they may have succeeded.
Examples of how we can help you: Click the "full list" button on the left for a complete list of ways we can help you.

Fostering Innovation
Our vision is: "an innovative society". All that we do is aimed at helping to foster, develop, nurture and deploy innovation for the benefit of the community.
If you are from an organisation whose vision is aligned with ours and you would like to partner with us or seek our support/sponsorship for an initiative that you are planning, please visit our "Fostering Innovation" page.
Service Providers
Do you invest in or provide services to innovators? We employ an approach that allows a network of commercialisation service providers, working as a coordinated team throughout all stages of the commercialisation process, to increase significantly the prospects of successfully commercialising innovation outcomes.
Our network development strategy requires premium quality service providers across a broad range of disciplines including: legal, accounting, finance, engineering, project management, design, marketing, communications, regulatory, human resources, graphic design, IT, patent drafting etc.
Please contact us if your organisation invests in innovators or is a premium-quality organisation that works with innovators - with a view to helping them derive commercial returns - and you would like to work with us.

Ways we add value - a list of our key services
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Before you innovate
Project planning and preparation
·Financial (eg NPV) analysis to avoid wasting resources on commercially undeserving projects
·Legal (eg IP/regulatory) analysis to avoid wasting resources on projects with unjustifiable risk
·Negotiating and preparing collaboration, project and technology development agreements
·Negotiating and preparing agreements with external service providers and contributors
·Conducting IP due diligence and reviews
·Developing IP management manuals
·Helping with prior art searching and understanding freedom to operate
·Dealing with regulatory issues and agencies
·Accessing government grants and R&D tax concessions
·Commercial, legal and IP management training for your key operational and commercial staff
·Implementing appropriate IP capture and IP management procedures to help you:
- ensure you end up owning the IP you expect to own
- reduce the risk of your activities causing you to be sued by others
- improve your prospects of deriving a return on your investment in innovation
Over-arching / General
Commercialisation
·Managing all steps and service providers in the commercialisation process
Legal and commercial professional services
·Commercial and legal services, with a focus on the needs of innovative/high-tech organisations
As you innovate
Innovation and further development
·Negotiating and preparing collaboration, project and technology development agreements
·Negotiating and preparing agreements with external service providers and contributors
·Accessing government grants and R&D tax concessions
·Financial (eg NPV) analysis to avoid wasting resources on commercially undeserving projects
·Conducting IP due diligence and reviews
·Developing IP management manuals
·Commercial, legal and IP management training for your key operational and commercial staff
·Implementing appropriate IP capture and IP management procedures to help you:
- ensure you end up owning the IP you expect to own
- reduce the risk of your activities causing you to be sued by others
- improve your prospects of deriving a return on your investment in innovation
Over-arching / General
Commercialisation
·Managing all steps and service providers in the commercialisation process
Legal and commercial professional services
·Commercial and legal services, with a focus on the needs of innovative/high-tech organisations
After you innovate
Valuation and Protection
·Valuing intellectual property rights, high-technology assets and ventures
·Developing patenting and IP protection strategies
·Helping you navigate the complex world of patent attorneys and patenting
Financing
·Accessing government grants and R&D tax concessions
·Helping with the capital-raising process
·Advising on corporate structure
·Negotiating and preparing financing agreements (eg loan and shareholder agreements)
Commercialisation / Licensing
·Managing all steps and service providers in the commercialisation process
·Developing patenting and IP protection strategies
·Valuing intellectual property rights, high-technology assets and ventures
·Developing a commercialisation strategy
·Developing a business plan, marketing plan, communications plan and operations plan
·Dealing with regulatory issues and agencies
·Establishing and advising innovative and/or high-technology start-up companies
·Negotiating global project/collaboration agreements for further development of technology
·Negotiating international IP assignment, licence and other commercialisation deals
Helping you do business
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Enforcement of IP rights
·Litigation to protect intellectual property rights
Helping you do business
Doing business
·Commercial and legal services, with a focus on the needs of innovative/high-tech organisations
·Negotiating and preparing agreements with key customers and suppliers
·Commercial, legal and IP management training for your key operational and commercial staff
·Conducting IP due diligence and reviews
·Dealing with regulatory issues and agencies
·Helping with access to talent and resources
·Strategy development
·Developing business plans, marketing plans and operational plans
·Business development and marketing activities
·Preparing tenders
·Helping with business performance measurement and management
·Helping with business management
Financing
·Accessing government grants and R&D tax concessions
·Helping with the capital-raising process
·Advising on corporate structure
·Negotiating and preparing financing agreements (eg loan and shareholder agreements)
Enforcement of IP rights
·Litigation to protect intellectual property rights, including:
- your reputation
- trade marks, patents and copyright
- confidential information

