Most new business start with a bright idea. Turning your inspiration into a going concern takes time, talent, money, hard work—and a top-notch intellectual property team can help develop and protect your niche in the market.
Kolisch Hartwell has an active practice aiding entrepreneurs and startups in securing the intellectual property rights they need first to survive—and then to thrive. Our clients include individuals, partnerships, and corporations from small to large, and from new to mature. Startups are often founded by technologists (who need to know how to protect inventions and how to build IP to secure funding) and investors (who need to separate the IP wheat from the IP chaff). We help guide enterprises in patent, trademark, copyright, and trade secret matters at all stages of development.
Kolisch Hartwell’s team of intellectual property attorneys and patent agents offers a very broad range of legal and subject-matter expertise useful to new businesses. On the patent side, we cover most of the modern engineering, scientific, and creative disciplines. CTOs for fledgling businesses—and their backers—therefore rely on us to understand the details of their technology, to help sort out the potentially protectable ideas, to develop strategies that support their business objectives, and to pursue solid U.S. and foreign rights that add value to the growing business. On the trademark side, we can help evaluate product, service, and business names for trademark registration and domain-name registration.
Very few new businesses are 100% self-funded. Kolisch Hartwell can help sequence the IP to build value for the enterprise at all phases of the funding process. We respect the need to preserve lean capital in the early stages. On the other side of the bargain, we are also adept at helping angels, venture caps, and other investors do due-diligence when they need to know the state of an enterprise’s IP. We can help inventors and investors assess the value of patents, patent applications, trademarks, trade secrets, and other IP.