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A Simple Guide to Protecting the Value in your Business This Year
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Valuation and licensing of Intellectual Property
Engenuity is a company that provides specialist engineering analysis and design services to enable companies to simplify manufacture, reduce materials used in mass production, enhance performance and reduce the risk of component failure. Engenuity was commissioned by it’s client to develop technology ready for volume manufacture and use in the construction industry. During the design [...]
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Damage Limitation: Valuing the IP in Insolvency Cases
LES NewsXchange: January 2012 For those of us that are involved day to day with IP issues it is self-evident that IP underpins every aspect of a business. It may therefore be sometimes surprising to us that many organisations are still not protecting or maximising the value of their intangible assets. An area that is [...]
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Don’t be a Victim of IP Crime
Business Today – January 2012 The scale of so-called ‘IP crime’ – which includes misuse or theft of brands, technologies, designs and content– is vast. A 2009 report from The Business Action to Stop Counterfeiting & Piracy estimated that annual loss to the G20 economies from counterfeiting is around 100 billion Euros. And while most [...]
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Maintaining Value through Dispute Resolution
Coller IP develops strategies to realise the full value of its clients’ intangible assets. According to our clients’ requirements we identify opportunities for licensing IP, for in-licensing technologies and prepare a strong platform for commercial exploitation of technologies and concepts. Sometimes, however our clients find themselves in dispute. The dispute might arise with an already [...]
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Maintaining Value through Dispute Resolution
Coller IP develops strategies to realise the full value of its clients’ intangible assets. According to our clients’ requirements we identify opportunities for licensing IP, for in-licensing technologies and prepare a strong platform for commercial exploitation of technologies and concepts. Sometimes, however our clients find themselves in dispute. The dispute might arise with an already [...]
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Coller IP Client wins prestigious award
Coller IP Client wins prestigious award at LAMMA. “All innovative new companies need a strategic IP firm to support them along the process and ensure they have a robust IP strategy.
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Looking after your assets
Daily Business Network – January 2012 Jackie Maguire is a founder and the chief executive of Coller IP, which provides a full range of professional IP services from patent and trademark filing to brokering, licensing, valuation, due diligence and legal opinion. She gives her expert advice on intellectual property. Intellectual property can seem a rather [...]
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Innovate, Market, Protect
Entrepreneur Success, January 2012 Stephen Huggett from the Alchemist explains how Jackie Maguire and Jim Asher started Coller IP: Five years ago, Jackie Maguire and Jim Asher started Coller IP, a firm specialising in Intellectual Property. IP, then, was not a hot business item. But, they had unknowingly tapped into a growing market – even [...]
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IP Valuation Consultant
£k competitive plus benefits, Oxfordshire Coller IP appoints Intellectual Property professionals in a growing IP business. Valuation experts work closely with a range of clients to provide guidance and advice on the value of all aspects of intangible assets. You will also have excellent consultancy skills and an aptitude for the commercialisation of ideas, inventions and brands. You will [...]
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European Patent Attorneys – Chemistry, Physics, Electronics, Materials
£k competitive plus benefits, Oxfordshire Coller IP appoints qualified attorneys to work closely with a range of clients to provide guidance and advice on all aspects of intellectual property rights. Likely candidates will be qualified European/Chartered Patent Attorneys who have been working closely on commercial IP developments. A qualification in chemistry, materials, physics or electronics is [...]
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Growing International IP Connections
The process of commercialising IP extends beyond international boundaries and Coller IP’s international network of professional IP associates is necessarily growing. We are now actively collaborating with over 160 professional firms covering over 90 countries throughout the world. We were proud to welcome Mr. Seong T Ahn and Ms. Sun-Hee Kim from Central International Law [...]
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Maintaining Value through Dispute Resolution
Coller IP develops strategies to realise the full value of its clients’ intangible assets. According to our clients’ requirements we identify opportunities for licensing IP, for in-licensing technologies and prepare a strong platform for commercial exploitation of technologies and concepts. Sometimes, however our clients find themselves in dispute. The dispute might arise with an already [...]
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Material Assets
Future Materials, January-February 2012 Intellectual Property is at the heart of many textiles companies focused on R&D. Pippa Tolfts and Jackie Maguire of Coller IP explain how to make sure it is fully protected Inventing new products and technologies is the lifeblood of many organisations, not least in the area of future materials. Yet many [...]
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TLC for IP
We are passionate about TLC for IP® providing Technical, Legal and Commercial skills for the total effective management of high quality and valuable IP rights. At Coller IP, we are specialists in all aspects of IP, providing strategic and practical IP advice to help you develop your inventions and/or grow your business. Whatever your starting [...]
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Patent Attorney Services
Our team of patent and trade mark attorneys drafts, files and prosecutes new patent specifications, applies for trade mark and design registrations, registers website domains and provides advice on copyright, databases and trade secrets according to client requirements. We file patent, design and trade mark applications in the UK and European patent applications, community design [...]
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Will the new Patent Box, R&D Tax Credits and Controlled Financial Company rules make the UK a good place to invest?
HM Treasury published draft legislation on 6th December 2011, covering the Patent Box, the R&D tax credit proposals and Controlled Foreign Company rules. The intention is that this new regime together with the UK corporation tax rate will make the UK a more attractive place to innovate. The 2012 Budget confirmed that Patent Box will provide [...]
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Stewart Davies – Chairman
Stewart Davies became an advisor to the board of several companies in April 2005 following retirement from BT Group plc and a career in telecoms spanning over 36 years. Stewart was appointed as Chairman for Coller IP Management in March 2006. Prior to leaving BT he was Chief Executive Officer BT Exact, BTs Research, Development [...]
David Bland – FD
David is currently Finance Director to several start up companies principally in the telecommunications, media and technology (TMT) sector. Prior to this David was the Financial Director and Company Secretary of Azure Solutions Limited, and in a three year period (2003 to 2006) was instrumental in three acquisitions and a second round fundraising totalling $15m. [...]
IP in Insolvency
R3 Regional Meeting Coller IP was pleased to present at the Association of Business Recovery Professionals (R3) meeting in Leeds. R3 Promotes best practice for professionals working with financially troubled individuals and businesses in the UK The meeting took place on Wednesday 16 November 2011 at The Crowne Plaza Hotel, Wellington Street, Leeds LS1 4DL. [...]
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Dr John Roscoe – NED
John Roscoe has been a non-executive director of Coller IP Management since its formation. He is an experienced business psychologist having worked closely with many start ups, investors and the medical community. He has considerable recent experience working within the service sector including the financial and legal services sectors covering private equity, patent attorneys & [...]
Dr Jackie Maguire – CEO
Jackie Maguire is the Chief Executive of Coller IP with director level experience in operations, marketing and business development. With over 20 years technology transfer, commercialisation and consultancy experience, Jackie has established Coller IP recognising the importance of protecting intangible assets within a business to increase its value. Jackie is a physicist and chartered engineer [...]
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Dr Jim Asher – COO
Jim is the Chief Operating Officer and co-founder of Coller IP and provides practical business strategy services to a range of clients. Jim has developed and leads the IP valuation services within Coller IP. He has worked for a range of clients, including investors, private companies, lawyers, insolvency practitioners and public-sector research bodies; his experience [...]
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IP Risk Assessment for Venture Capital
PegasusBridge Fund Management Limited manages The PegasusBridge Defence & Security Fund Limited, Europe’s first fund to focus exclusively on the fast growing Defence and Homeland Security sectors. It focuses its investments primarily in early to late-stage dual use technologies which have both defence and civilian leading edge applications. Examples include novel x-ray scanning equipment, advanced [...]
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Biotechnology IP Due Diligence
Exosect Limited focuses on the development and sales of intelligent pest management solutions. Its innovative and cost-effective products help growers, food producers, food storers and food processors to reduce reliance on conventional chemical insecticides. It aims to assist growers to achieve lower levels of chemical residues, if any, in their crops and produce high quality [...]
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Strengthening the Value of Existing IP
Coller IP was approached by an Engineering Company to advise on the content of its patent portfolio. Their senior technical manager had spotted that two key patents underpinning their main specialist services were due to expire within two years. He raised a concern that loss of the patents could open the door for competitors and [...]
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High Growth Start Up
Endocrine Pharmaceuticals is a high growth start up company that has developed a radical new hormone therapy for use in tissue overgrowth disorders, including cancer. Endocrine approached us having already enlisted support from the venture capital company 3i. We have since worked successfully with Endocrine to help maximise the company value. In the early days [...]
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Acting as In-house IP Manager
Exosect Limited focuses on the development and sales of intelligent pest management solutions. Its innovative and cost-effective products help growers, food producers, food storers and food processors to reduce reliance on conventional chemical insecticides. It aims to assist growers to achieve lower levels of chemical residues, if any, in their crops and produce high quality [...]
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Maurice Alphandary
IP Consultant & Analyst Maurice has over 25 years of experience of different facets of business development, sales and marketing having started his career in the oil industry where he was responsible for the successful commercialisation of R&D. The last 10 years focused primarily on business management and growth for a privatised Public Sector Research [...]
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IP Audit & Risk Assessment for Venture Capital
Oxford Capital Partners (OCP) is a science and technology venture capital firm with extensive experience of investing in and supporting businesses with high growth potential, on behalf of institutional and private investors. OCP looks for the best opportunities, backing exceptional entrepreneurs and investing across all stages of development, from start-up to IPO. Its focus is [...]
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