Future-proofing your business by empowering Intellectual Property
We want to be your number one thought partner for IP and innovation.
Harvest your inventions and secure innovations through a sustainable concept fully integrated with your R&D
Our holistic approach reduces expenses in several IP management areas and helps your department cope with cost pressure
We develop an exhaustive overview of your IP risk potential and design mitigation strategies tailor-made for your needs
We accompany its transformation to gain a competitive advantage and serve your customers better with a strong IP function
We determine an objective value of all your IP assets and offer our independent analysis of your portfolio's potential
Business Model
We solve your challenges in three dimensions.
Services
How we shape your IP excellence
The integration of all IP aspects in R&D projects and technology development is a challenge and we will support you to master it well. We identify together with you the optimal approach to secure your investment and maintain the exclusivity you need for your business success.
Harvesting invention ideas during development activities is only one aspect of many, like ensuring your freedom to operate or securing your IP rights, when working with external parties.
Safeguard your innovations and inventions by ensuring exclusive use of them through smart, cost-efficient IP protection.
Efficiently harvest your invention ideas and protect them via a structured approach aided by Dennemeyer's IP consultants.
Align IP with R&D to streamline your innovative processes in a manner best-suited for achieving maximum business impact.
Dennemeyer Consulting answers all your cost-cutting questions and helps ensure you save money. We first identify immediate savings opportunities in your portfolio, subscribed services and tools. For sustainable cost excellence, we optimize your filing & prosecution strategy and processes.
You will achieve cost savings of up to 30% in a smart way without jeopardizing the scope of your IP protection. Trust the experience of our IP experts — all have successfully managed portfolios comparable to yours in size, complexity and industry-specific needs.
Benefit from savings in all areas of IP management: portfolio & strategy, services & tools, and processes & staff.
Achieve cost reductions by pruning your portfolio and leveraging an optimized filing & prosecution strategy.
Rack up quick but valuable cost-efficiency wins by eliminating overcharged IP services, software tools and licenses.
Save money with time-efficient processes, appropriate headcount and the right balance between in- and outsourcing.
Dennemeyer always has an objective, unbiased view on savings opportunities, specifically in processes and staff.
Our experts provide clear quantification of potential savings to establish business cases for all recommendations.
We go beyond mere recommendations and help your organization successfully implement ideal cost-savings initiatives.
We provide our IP Cost Excellence services remotely, without requiring any additional business expenses.
The costs for IP disputes can skyrocket if they are not handled in a timely and effective manner, especially in certain jurisdictions. Therefore, your company must understand its risk of infringing upon third parties’ IPRs. On the other hand, having your business properly protected by its own IPRs is essential to prevent others from hijacking your innovations and seizing your revenues.
Our IP risk assessment helps reduce the likelihood of attacks by competitors or patent trolls and prevent revenue losses due to insufficient IPR protection.
Do you want to assess one product or your whole IP portfolio? You decide on the breadth and depth of our risk assessment.
Our IP risk experts will make recommendations for realistic and effective risk mitigation options.
We put a stop to IPR protection gaps. We assess your organization's IPR coverage and help you adjust the scope as needed.
Reduce your risk of being attacked with infringement claims to avoid high litigation fees and potential damages.
Take IP to the top of your agenda by uncovering and mitigating business-threatening internal and external IP risks.
Create a connected, fully integrated, faster and more productive IP ecosystem in which empowered people use appropriate tools in optimized processes — based on sound strategy — to realize value. Retool and rearrange your reactive IP department to transform it into a proactive catalyst of innovation.
Get world-class comprehensive support with tailor-made plans for achieving your IP transformation, starting with a status-quo assessment and continuing with detailed road mapping and start-to-finish transformation steering and governance.
We provide tools, smooth processes, efficient resource allocation and interfaces that create maximum impact.
An experienced transformation manager accompanies and steers the IP department's process of evolution.
Our transformation manager ensures the IP department's growth and development goals are internalized by the whole team.
Divide responsibilities across your IP team by assigning roles focused on core competencies for optimal performance.
Cut out obsolete work to enable greater staff efficiency and efficacy and better drive innovation in your organization.
You will empower your staff by encouraging self-determination and individual identification with their work.
Global economic changes have driven the development of business models in which IP is a core component of profitability and growth. An IP-owning organization can productively leverage it internally in many ways: by driving critical internal processes, or developing goods and services for customers.
Externally, it can license IP use privileges to collect royalties or profit from the sale of rights. Dennemeyer's IP valuation experts will help you determine the best strategy for optimizing your portfolio's bottom-line worth.
Comprehensive, financially and technically sound reports provide perfect support for negotiations with quick turnarounds.
Uncover formerly unnoticed investment opportunities from your IP and learn to cut unnecessary ties.
Always get fair compensation for your IP. An independent valuation will strengthen your position in negotiations.
For IP-backed financing, reliable valuation is key. The objective credibility of our valuators is essential.
Convince investors with the monetary value of your technology. Use your IP as collateral for loans and investment.
Profit from unused patents through easy access to the patent market to find patent brokers and interested companies.
What sets us apart?
About us
We work in an open, creative and trustworthy manner. Our unique combination of extensive Intellectual Property, industry and business expertise fosters your IP excellence.
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Examples of our work
Case studies
Media Industry
"Technology Landscape for innovation and litigation"
Consumer Goods
"IP department’s organization optimization"
HealthCare Industry
"2nd follower wants to become Innovation Leader"
HighTech Industry
"Monetary valuation of an Intangible Asset portfolio for investment purposes"
Aviation and Defense Industry
"IP Creation & innovation Program for civil aviation industry"
- Situation
- Approach
- Results & Benefits
Situation
- The client is a leading player in live video streaming services in the adult entertainment industry
- Constantly improving its online streaming platform, the client recently faced litigation threats by US players
- As a response, the client intended to secure its core software developments via international patent protection
- To do so, the client first intended to gain insights into the ambient patenting activity, litigation events and innovativeness levels of its competitors for selected technologies
Approach
- Using a custom questionnaire, a technology matrix was built in cooperation with the client’s subject-matter experts, reflecting the client’s priority technology and R&D areas
- For each of the technology matrix elements, patent search queries were developed and improved in multiple iteration rounds of results revision
- Final patent search results were imported into Dennemeyer’s IP analysis tool in order to generate the insights, to perform selected analytics and to highlight certain innovative patents
Results & Benefits
- Within three weeks, the client obtained a comprehensive technology matrix that is fully searchable (e.g. status, litigation events, assignee) and that reveals where which patent belongs to with respect to technology
- With the report, the client understands where the litigation risks are highest, and in which jurisdiction(s) it is most likely to occur
- Using key patent metrics, we identify technology leaders and cutting-edge inventions that inform the client on the level of innovativeness required for patenting
- Analyzing technology trends and key applicants, the client is made aware of what its innovation efforts should focus on and potential cooperation partners from neighboring industries
What's your case?
- Situation
- Approach
- Results & Benefits
Situation
- The client is a SME (small or medium enterprise) in the household appliances sector
- Due to a strategic reorientation the number of invention disclosures and applications increased significantly
- Organizational structure, operational procedures and capacity distribution needed to be adjusted in the most effective and efficient manner
- Smart home related developments required the IP department to rethink its service offers and current tasks
Approach
All IP department employees, company internal customers and stakeholders were involved in a design thinking approach to jointly develop the future IP department and to define the necessary measures to reach it, based on a current situation analysis; the following questions have been answered:
- Are we conducting the right tasks in the right way?
- What does the internal customer demand with respect to solutions and working habits?
- Is the IP department structured in the right way and equipped with sufficient capacity and competence to fulfill the future tasks?
Results & Benefits
- An objectified picture on the current situation within the IP department and the internal customer requirements
- The IP department’s future ambition based on a creativity workshop
- An objectified description of the client-specific, realistic best situation that is possible to be reached
- A catalogue of measures to reach the desired status focusing on efficiency, effectiveness and IP awareness
- Additionally the awareness for IP has been strengthened within the entire company
What's your case?
- Situation
- Approach
- Results & Benefits
Situation
- The client is a global player in the medical technology with a second follower strategy. This strategy has been changed and the company planned to become the innovation leader in their industry sector.
- The IP department acted as a mostly reactive supporting function not being responsible for all company divisions and with insufficient resources to become more active
- The client asked Dennemeyer for an unbiased view on its own IP function to answer the questions
- Is the IP thinking and strategy up to date and how is the strategic fit to innovation lead ambitions?
- Where are strengths and weaknesses?
Approach
- Dennemeyer applied its IP performance assessment approach consisting of three major steps
- IP base data analysis: Statistical analysis of patent portfolio with respect to basic patent characteristics
- IP audit: Interview based assessment covering > 350 questions clustered in 6-10 dimensions
- X-Assessment: Compares internal (IP department) and external perspective (cross-functional)
Results & Benefits
- The client received a clear and in depth audit result providing
- Strengths and weaknesses of the IP function in comparison to industry best practices (benchmark)
- Areas of improvement with concrete measures to overcome weaknesses
- Transparent and objective report to communicate need for resources and greater organizational integration
- 8-10 initiatives how to lead the transformation with relevant effects for the organization
What's your case?
- Situation
- Approach
- Results & Benefits
Situation
- The client is an investment company headquartered in the UK
- The potential investment target is a research-driven company in the battery technology sector with multiple IP rights seeking a loan by pledging their IP portfolio as collateral
- The IP portfolio has been valuated by the target’s IP law firm, but the investor seeks an objective and independent IP valuation
Approach
- Within two work packages Dennemeyer consultants independently valuated the trademark and technical IP rights portfolio
- Due to the valuation objective an income based valuation approach with a Relief-from-Royalty method was applied
- In close collaboration with the target company legal, technical and market valuation factors were assessed to value the patent portfolio based on a reliable business case
Results & Benefits
- Dennemeyer provided an objective valuation on the target’s IP portfolio as an independent assessor
- The client was very satisfied with the transparent valuation approach and got a clear view on:
- The monetary value of the IP Portfolio and each single IPR
- Strengths and weaknesses of the IP portfolio in comparison to the technological competition
- Thus, the client is enabled to make an informed investment decision with a better understanding of the target’s actual value, associated risks and technology landscape
What's your case?
- Situation
- Approach
- Results & Benefits
Situation
- The client is a player in the civil aviation industry
- The company was seeking for not yet protected technologies and new solutions in their key technology areas of interest
- The client asked Dennemeyer to identify new technologies with high potential for patent generation
- The client asked Dennemeyer to create and draft these patents and to coordinate an IPR Strategy development
Approach
Dennemeyer applied a four phases – each project phase contributed to the objective: generate new technologies and patent applications
- Phase 1: Definition and selection of the key technology of interest for the company
- Phase 2: IP Creation Process to empower the joint teams in five workshop steps to solve problems faster, to improve technologies and to create higher technology and patent values
- Phase 3 & 4: Patent application drafting and IP Strategy development to optimize technology protection and to leverage the business model
Results & Benefits
Dennemeyer provided a comprehensive IP Creation & Innovation workshop series:
- Existing technologies have been analyzed and improved
- New technologies have been defined, novelty has been assessed and possible inventions have been developed
- Patent applications have been placed
- A 360° protection strategy has been set up and the business model has been adapted
What's your case?
Meet your IP experts
A selection of our consultants
We apply our unique combination of Intellectual Property, industry and business expertise. Our Dennemeyer Consulting team members leverage their experience and personality to act as your thought partner.
Over 75 years of personal experience in IP
Altogether, our IP consultants have accumulated over 75 years of professional experience in IP. From IP strategy over to IP intelligence, IP valuation and IP enforcement, we cover the entire lifecycle of IP.
Brigitte Baldi
Senior Manager – strategy and transformations
Brigitte is your partner for strategic, organization, operations and transformation management in IP excellence.
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Brigitte is your partner for strategic, organization, operations and transformation management in IP excellence.
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Philipp Hammans
Senior Manager — technology, innovation and valuation
Philipp will help you achieve excellence status as your partner for strategic, technology, innovation and IP business architecture challenges.
Monetary valuation projects and due diligences round off his profile.
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Philipp will help you achieve excellence status as your partner for strategic, technology, innovation and IP business architecture challenges.
Monetary valuation projects and due diligences round off his profile.
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Burkhard Josuhn-Kadner
Senior Manager — IP excellence, strategy and operations
Burkhard will help you achieve strategic and operational excellence for IP by applying proven strategies and concepts using long industry experience on an executive level.
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Burkhard will help you achieve strategic and operational excellence for IP by applying proven strategies and concepts using long industry experience on an executive level.
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Alexander Gangnus
Manager — IP risk and infringement analysis
With an extensive track record in international IP enforcement and strategies, Alexander helps you detect and mitigate IP risks, but also explore opportunities deriving from potential IPR conflicts.
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With an extensive track record in international IP enforcement and strategies, Alexander helps you detect and mitigate IP risks, but also explore opportunities deriving from potential IPR conflicts.
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Dr. Sven Gensler
Manager — strategy, technology and innovation
Sven is passionate about helping clients drive forward their innovativeness and excel in their IP management.
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Sven is passionate about helping clients drive forward their innovativeness and excel in their IP management.
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Dr. Cornelia Peuser
Senior Consultant — innovation economics
Cornelia helps you gain insights into your technological and competitive environment and stay ahead of the curve.
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Cornelia helps you gain insights into your technological and competitive environment and stay ahead of the curve.
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Linus Brockstedt
Consultant — innovation and strategy
With a passion for technology and Intellectual Property, Linus assists you with IPR data analytics as well as concept creation.
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With a passion for technology and Intellectual Property, Linus assists you with IPR data analytics as well as concept creation.
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Salomé Ricordel
Analyst — strategy and legal
Salomé draws on her IP law experience to support you with regards to legal assessment, IPR analytics and IP strategy development.
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Salomé draws on her IP law experience to support you with regards to legal assessment, IPR analytics and IP strategy development.
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Testimonials
In a joint project team with Dennemeyer Consulting, we developed our new patent strategy, organization, processes, resources and requirements for software tools. Today, I am proud that our implemented patent competence center passed several, even externally driven assessments, with the result that our patent management is up to date with no need to further improvement.
Hans-Georg Greif
former Head of Patents at RWE
The IP Transformation program supported by Dennemeyer's experienced transformation manager is a role model project under the given constraints.
Dr. Peter Fruhstorfer
CEO/CBO of Eppendorf AG
The approach that the Dennemeyer Consultants applied to audit our IP performance is clear and thoughtful. The results are reasonable and create a good base to head into the future.
Client’s Head of Strategy & Technology
After 10 years, we want to get an outside-in assessment on the achievements of our IP department and an orientation where we stand. The objectives were fully met with Dennemeyer’s support in the IP performance audit project. In addition we received valuable insights to our different business units’ needs and demands.
Client’s Head of IP Management/Patents
The improved exchange and mutual understanding within our team already made it worth working with Dennemeyer. The consultants tailored their approach very well to our situation and did a convincing job both on the personal and on the procedural level, so that the impact lasts far beyond the project end.
Ditmar Neumann
Partner, KEENWAY Patentanwälte Neumann Heine Taruttis PartG mbB
As a start-up, the greatest challenge during funding with investors is the company valuation. Usually, the investors have the better cards during negotiations. We at KTW Technology have decided to let the renowned company Dennemeyer IP Consulting conduct an IP valuation for the upcoming growth financing. This professional appraisal provides us with a neutral valuation for future negotiations. Many thanks to the team at Dennemeyer IP Consulting for the great job.
Wolfgang Teichmann
CEO of KTW Technology GmbH
Thanks again to the Dennemeyer Consulting team for this very successful project. The first improvements are already achieved. The employees are very eager to continue with the implementation of the commonly defined measures. I am looking forward to continuing our good collaboration in future projects.
Global Managing Director, IP Law Firm
After more than 5 years of good faith efforts in thinking and discussing we finally get big steps done in the transformation supported by Dennemeyer in the past months to enable us to contribute best to our group’s strategic objectives.
Client's Head of IP
The world of IP
Critical and curious terms
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Abandonment
When an inventor surrenders the right to protect the IP they had patented, copyrighted or trademarked (or were in the process of applying to do so). Abandonment takes effect if an IP governing body requests information during the pending process and does not receive it by a specific date. IP rights can also be passively abandoned: e.g., a trademarked logo never used, or a patent not renewed by its holder before expiration (whether willfully or negligently).
Disclosure
The first publication of the details of an invention. If the disclosure is made before the patent application has been filed (deliberately or otherwise), the invention will be unpatentable, in most cases. In return for a patent granted (exclusive rights for a limited time), the applicant must make full disclosure of the invention for which protection has been requested.
Infringement
Breach of IPRs, e.g., the unauthorized use of any IP protected as copyright, patent, trademark, etc. without proper permission from the person(s) or entity that own(s) those rights. Examples of IP infringement are “counterfeiting” and “piracy.”
IP life cycle
The life cycle of an IPR, determined either by law or by factual circumstances. An example of expiry determined by law is the 20 years granted for holding the monopoly on the patent. In contrast, a case of factual circumstances is the non-use of a trademark for business activity cessation.
Grace period
A period of time granted for the public disclosure of an invention without affecting a subsequent patent application’s validity.
Novelty
A requirement which is requested to obtain the grant of the IPR. For trademarks, novelty means that there must be no earlier registered marks identical to the one to which the protection is requested. In the case of patents, “new” means it has not been included in prior art. A critical test for determining patentability under PCT standards and in many countries’ patent laws. If a machine, process or method is not anticipated by any identical or excessively similar prior art, it may be considered novel. (See also inventive step.)
Patent family
A set of interrelated patent applications filed in one or more countries to protect the same or a similar invention.
Patent landscape
A snapshot of a specific technology’s patent situation, either within a given country or region, or globally. It can inform policy discussions, strategic research planning or technology transfer.
Standard essential patent
Patents on technologies that are incorporated in an industry standard and that would be necessarily infringed by implementing standard specifications. Standard Essential Patents are patents whose exploitation is technically necessary to implement certain technologies.
Trade secret
An IPR on confidential information. This IPR may be sold or licensed. In general, to qualify as a trade secret, the information must be: • Commercially valuable because it is secret • Be known only to a limited group of persons, and • Be subject to reasonable steps taken by the rightful holder of the information to keep it secret, including the use of confidentiality agreements for business partners and employees The unauthorized acquisition, use or disclosure of such secret information in a manner contrary to honest commercial practices by others is regarded as an unfair practice and a violation of the trade secret protection.
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