Medilink Midlands offers Patronage to prominent organisations who recognise and demonstrate the importance of the medtech and life sciences sector.
We are proud to highlight the significant contribution that our Patron, Potter Clarkson, who are integral to supporting Medilink Midlands innovation support activities and diverse events programme, to enable greater collaboration and knowledge sharing.
About
Potter Clarkson is a specialist intellectual property (IP) law firm. Our advisers include patent attorneys, trade mark attorneys and intellectual property solicitors. With the infrastructure to match its credentials as a leading European firm, our 200-strong specialist team operates from dedicated offices in the UK, Sweden, and Denmark.
We help companies in the life science and medtech sectors understand, create, protect, and defend the commercial value of their innovations anywhere in the world through IP rights. Recognised as a top-tier firm, Potter Clarkson is known for its wide-ranging technical and legal expertise, progressive thinking, deep commercial insight, approachability, and clarity of advice.
Our range of consultancy products include a number of products that are particularly relevant to Medilink members at different stages in their commercial journey, including:
- Kick-StartiP, which helps start-ups deliver their business plan & create value from their innovative ideas by embedding an effective IP approach at the outset.
ConvertiP, which aims to improve the profitability of successful products owned by established companies.
Find out how our Patron can help
KickstartiP: Your Launchpad for IP Success
Are you a startup looking to establish a strong IP foundation? Our KickstartiP consultancy service is designed specifically for you. We provide comprehensive support to help you identify, protect, and leverage your IP assets, ensuring you have the competitive edge needed to thrive in the medtech and life sciences industries.
Our tailored IP strategies align with your business goals, providing expert guidance on securing and managing your IP rights from initial filing to ongoing maintenance. We assist in making your IP position investor-ready to secure funding, and advise on presenting your IP portfolio to potential backers.
ConvertiP: Maximising the Value of Your IP
For SMEs with commercially successful products, our ConvertiP consultancy service offers advanced IP management solutions to maximise the value of your existing unregistered IP.
As your business grows and accumulates confidential know-how, it becomes crucial to reassess your IP strategy. Once a product relying on these secrets achieves commercial success, reassessing whether the existing protection that is in place is still appropriate is key to ensuring that your IP strategy remains aligned with your business plan.
Converting trade secrets associated with a successful product into a patent creates well-defined and more easily enforceable protection and can deliver significant financial benefits, including potentially substantial value through Patent Box Tax Relief. In this way, your existing IP can be converted into a source of additional post-tax profit.
The ConvertiP consultancy product enables us to perform a cost-benefit analysis of whether a commercially successful invention should be kept as a trade secret or converted to a patent. We balance the subjects of your trade secrets against strategic reasons for converting them to patents, ensuring your IP strategy provides a solid foundation for continued success.
As a full-service intellectual property law firm with expertise in patents, trade marks, designs, litigation, licensing, and consultancy, we provide specialist support in all areas of IP, including:
- Identifying what you can protect
- Securing your rights
- Realising the full value of your assets with smart commercial arrangements
- Helping you develop the value of your innovations by enforcing your rights against competitors
- Putting in place a managed IP strategy to maximise commercial opportunities that come your way
At Potter Clarkson, we are recognised for our wide-ranging technical and legal expertise, progressive thinking, business knowledge, deep commercial insight, and approachability. As a pan-European firm with offices in multiple EU-member states, we support clients in all aspects of IP. Our professionals are highly experienced in IP law and have a deep understanding of the medtech and life sciences industries.
We prioritise your needs and goals, offering personalized services that cater to your unique challenges and opportunities. With a proven track record of successfully supporting clients in achieving their IP objectives, from startups to established enterprises, we provide comprehensive services from initial IP strategy development to ongoing management and enforcement.
We make it our business to understand our clients’ business sectors, practical challenges, and commercial ambitions for the future. Providing the highest quality of client service, strategic advice, and ‘right first time’ delivery, we ultimately measure our own success by the success of our clients.
Get in touch
If you have any questions about our services or activities with Medilink Midlands, do feel free to email Dan Hudson ([email protected]), a patent attorney and partner specialising in medtech and software inventions.
We hope that the above highlights just some of the sector-leading work being carried out by Potter Clarkson, one of our valued Patrons.
More information on Medilink Midlands Patronage is available here.
