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Dennemeyer IP Consulting helps you to identify and exploit the maximum potential of your Intellectual Property.

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Secure your innovations and turn them into valuable and robust IP rights

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Unleash your IP’s potential with individualized monitoring concepts and portfolio analyses

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Develop your IP department into a powerhouse with tailored IP operations based on best practices

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About us

What sets us apart?

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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Years of personal experience in Intellectual Property

Our diverse and skilled international team of IP experts from different fields, complemented by a strong expert network, enables us to cover all functional topics related to IP, globally.

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Management and business functions represented and industries covered by our team

We have an excellent understanding of your challenges since our consultants have diverse and multidisciplinary academic backgrounds and covered industry positions, e.g., Global Head of Innovation, Technology and IP, before joining Dennemeyer.

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Points out of 5 on client satisfaction honor our working mode

Close collaboration and knowledge transfer in joint client-consultant teams, paired with high-quality, reliable and pragmatic solutions, are of utmost importance for us to jointly develop your strategic IP roadmap towards IP excellence.

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Proven approaches and tools at our disposal

Powerful tools, such as our artificial intelligence solution Octimine for worldwide semantic patent and innovation research, help us to help you in reaching even the most ambitious IP goals.

Services

How we future-proof your business and IP

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Innovation & IP Creation
Identify crucial innovations and secure R&D results
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IP Cost Excellence
Lower your IP costs by up to 30%
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IP Intelligence & Insights
Individualized monitoring concepts and portfolio analyses
Innovation & IP Creation

If your R&D team tells you that a €1-million development project led them to inventing “nothing," we support you to identify and secure that “nothing."

The integration of IP matters with R&D and technology processes can be a great challenge — one that Dennemeyer can help you master. We provide proven solutions for securing your investment in innovation and ensuring the exclusivity of the technologies you need for sustainable business success.

Identifying and harvesting invention ideas during development activities is only one aspect of our services. Invention assessments in light of business, technology and legal considerations is another feature. Our approach covers every facet of IP synthesis.

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Burkhard Josuhn-Kadner
Senior Manager
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Integration of IP in R&D

Avoid last-minute rushes and ad-hoc solutions by integrating IP and inventions into your R&D and innovation processes.

 

Idea and invention harvesting

Our advanced concept ensures the identification of your most valuable innovation ideas and supports their lean documentation.

Inventor and innovation workshops

With our creative techniques and questionaires, you will identify relevant innovation ideas during our invention workshops.

IP Cost Excellence

Dennemeyer helps you cope with cost pressure on your IP department. Our holistic approach can reduce expenses in several IP management areas.

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.

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Johannes Herbert
Senior Product Manager
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Significant cuts to IP costs

Benefit from savings in all areas of IP management: portfolio & strategy, services & tools, and processes & staff.

Portfolio & strategy savings

Achieve cost reductions by pruning your portfolio and leveraging an optimized filing & prosecution strategy.

Savings in services and tools

Rack up quick but valuable cost-efficiency wins by eliminating overcharged IP services, software tools and licenses.

IP Intelligence & Insights

Keen insight is the key to unlocking your IP's potential. A careful analysis by Dennemeyer's experts can help you capitalize on your intangible assets.

Typical patent landscape deliverables are easily generated from commercially available patent analytics software, using unelaborated search strings. These reports can be full of impressive charts and graphs but often leave you with more questions than answers while delivering only generalized insights.

We will carefully listen to your unique goals and custom-design an approach to provide valuable analytics and monitoring concepts to meet your specific situation and objectives.

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Johannes Herbert
Senior Product Manager
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IP monitoring excellence

We build a time- and cost-efficient patent monitoring workflow with top-level information quality and full R&D integration.

Full IP portfolio assessment

Profit from an objective overview of your IP portfolio together with our best practices to identify improvement potentials.

Competitive analyses and benchmarking

What are your peers' IP activities? We cooperate with you to develop competitive benchmarks that offer the best insights.

IP Operations
Gain a competitive advantage and better serve your customers with a modern and efficient IP function that meets challenges proactively. Create a connected, fully integrated, faster and more productive IP ecosystem in which empowered people use optimized tools and processes to realize value. Retool and rearrange your reactive IP department to transform it into a proactive catalyst for innovation. Our world-class comprehensive support starts with a status-quo assessment and continues with detailed road mapping and uninterrupted guidance. The experts at Dennemeyer work in concert with your team at every step on the path to operational excellence.
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Brigitte Baldi
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Future-proof IP operations

We bring proven approaches that enable smooth processes and define appropriate resources and interfaces for maximum impact.

IP Performance Assessment

Dennemeyer's IP maturity score reveals the status quo, benchmarks strengths and identifies improvements to reach IP excellence.

Organization design

Develop the organizational structures, roles and governance to best leverage your IP staff's skills and expertise.

IP Risks & Due Diligence

Is a deal in sight? Gain total transparency and let us help you identify the risks and red flags in your target's IP portfolio.

Costs for IP disputes can skyrocket if they are not handled in a timely and effective manner, especially in certain jurisdictions. Therefore, any investor or company must understand the risks of infringing upon third parties’ IPRs.

Likewise, revenue losses due to insufficient IPR protection make an investment unattractive and deprive a company of crucial earnings while benefiting competitors.

Create transparency now and discover the best ways to navigate and mitigate IP risks.

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IP Due Diligence

Gain transparency on IP-related risk potentials or red flags within an investment target's IP portfolio.

Analysis of IP protection gaps

We fill in IPR protection gaps. We assess your organization's IPR coverage and help you adjust the scope as needed.

Infringement analyses

Assess the risk of being the target of infringement claims to avoid high litigation fees and potential damages.

IP Strategy
Stay ahead of the competition. We work with you to enhance your IP strategy's capacity to develop, protect and exploit your IP assets. What to aim for? How to move forward? Where and when to act? Dennemeyer’s IP Strategy service delivers answers to the basic but most pressing questions. First, we take a look at your company’s corporate strategy and find out how IP can contribute to realizing your goals. Next, we craft or adjust your IP strategy — corporate-wide or per business unit — to extract the most value from your intellectual assets and sustain competitive advantages. Finally, we support you in achieving your objectives with a clear roadmap of activities.
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IP strategy assessment

We review your existing IP strategy and check for business plan alignment and improvement potentials.

IP strategy development

We develop an IP strategy that is aligned to your business model and objectives, taking into account market and resource factors.

IP roadmap for your future

Let us bring your IP strategy to life with concrete actions toward defined targets and meaningful KPIs to track successes.

IP Valuation & Monetization

Dennemeyer can help you make the intangible tangible. We skillfully handle IP valuation projects of any complexity level, from start-ups to multinationals.

Global economic changes have driven the development of business models in which IP is a core component of profitability and growth. IP has become an integral asset and should be treated as such.

Today, an IP valuation can aid in many scenarios such as investment, financing or exploitation through licensing or sales.

We will help you determine the best strategy for defining and leveraging your portfolio's value. Our comprehensive, financially and technically sound IP valuation reports provide excellent support for internal and external negotiations.

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Dr. Enno D. Bibow
Senior Manager
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IP Valuation for M&A or joint ventures

Ensure complete and fair compensation for your IP. An independent valuation will strengthen your position in negotiations.

Support for start-ups

Attract investors with the monetary value of your technology. Use your IP as collateral for loans and investment.

Monetization opportunities

Profit from unused patents through easy access to the patent market to find brokers, buyers and interested companies.

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.

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Brigitte Baldi

Senior Manager

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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Testimonials

What our clients say

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Dennemeyer delivered an exhaustive work product on a timely basis and their business analysis was exceptionally thorough. In sum, Dennemeyer delivered more than was expected.

James T. Perry

General Counsel, World Trade Centers Association, Inc.

Case studies

Examples of our work

Consumer Goods

"IP department’s organization optimization"

Media Industry

"Technology Landscape for innovation and litigation"

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"

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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

 

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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

 

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  • 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?

 

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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

 

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  • 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

 

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Insights

Our understanding of thought partnership includes the provision of high quality IP content. Please find a selection here.

Future IP management: a story of IP transformation

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Being innovative – and competitive – means never standing still. But breaking old habits and adapting to new processes and technologies can seem like an added burden.

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Being innovative – and competitive – means never standing still. But breaking old habits and adapting to new processes and technologies can seem like an added burden.

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IP glossary

Critical and curious terms in the world of IP

We have put together a sampling of some of the most important terms you will encounter in the field of Intellectual Property. Download our comprehensive glossary to broaden your knowledge of this industry.

Application

The formal request for an IP right at an IP office, whereupon the office examines the application and decides whether to grant or refuse protection. An application also refers to a set of documents submitted to an office by the applicant.

Is IP more than the protection of my inventions or brands?

Yes, IP is a powerful instrument to gain insights into competitors, markets, industry and technology trends and provides a wealth of information to drive your strategy formulation.

Who are my competitors, and in which direction do they develop?

Accurately interpreted IPR data offers a magnitude of insights about the existing and upcoming players in the competitive arena and enables you to detect their strategic movements even before they are announced.

How can IP predict future technological trends?

IP data, when carefully analyzed, is key to detecting developments even before the markets become aware of them. Thorough analytics help to identify upcoming trends and to detect topics that have outlived their value.

How can IP contribute to our objective of putting the customer at the center of our development?

Shifting from technology-driven to customer demand-driven innovation requires a similar development for your IP strategy. On the other hand, you apply IPR insights as a driving force to move toward technology or product “white spots” on the market.

How can we identify potential buyers or licensees that would be interested in our IP?

With a good research strategy, IPRs enable the understanding and identification of market players and trends in specific sectors, thus detecting interested parties.

How can my company become an innovation leader?

You will reach innovation leadership by using your innovation assets as driving forces and adopting a customer - and market-driven IP strategy.

We see a lack of innovation, how can IP help to fill the gap?

Structured approaches such as well-prepared IP creation workshops prompt a fast and focused development, thus triggering the evolution from a following to a leading innovation position.

How can we improve innovation and R&D within our company?

Use IP to inspire the generation of new IP assets and additional value from existing IPRs, as well as predicting trends and entering new markets.

How can we justify expenses for IP?

IP management costs arise when you create, protect and maintain intangible assets. Vice versa, IP assets are a source of revenue either directly through license royalties or indirectly by securing market share, margins and reputation, thus offsetting IP costs.

How can I identify and overcome my IP management’s weaknesses?

IP performance assessments are an excellent approach to identifying means of improvement. Benchmarking exercises apply a sound basis of data, notably to determine the company’s IP management strengths and rectify weaknesses. Regularly, key performance indicators assess your company’s level of maturity in IP management and inventiveness.

How can we further develop our IP team?

Make clear what challenges your team is facing: Do you go for transformation and change, e.g., digitalization? Are you heading toward strategic IP developments, e.g., do you contribute actively to your company’s business? Is a transaction ahead or planned, e.g., searching for a potential partner, seller or buyer, integrating or demerging an IP portfolio? Depending on your situation, approaches such as awareness creation, coaching, training, adequate tool instruction or workflow improvement are required.

What tools are appropriate to support our IP management?

There is neither a “one tool fits all” nor a dominant solution in the market. Your users, your objectives and your requirements are the guiding principles for any selection.
 

Questions and answers

Questions to consider when talking about empowering Intellectual Property

As your thought partner in IP, we are dedicated to discussing your questions around IP.

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