This service offers an ongoing process to develop, implement, and continuously update a tailor-made Intellectual Property (IP) Strategy. The service begins with a comprehensive analysis of the current IP status, which includes dedicated meetings with inventors and EIC beneficiaries, analysis of the market position and the strengths and weaknesses of existing IP. The next phase includes delivery of strategic recommendations for future action to ensure that relevant core assets are protected, and to ensure an IP strategy according to the beneficiary’s business plan. The process results in a formal, written IP Strategy report that serves as a long-term plan, to be continually updated. This report will include analysis on conventional IP (patents, design protections and trademarks), trade secrets, open source and crowdsourcing, and strategic recommendations. Additionally the report will include essential advice to strengthen the position in current or future negotiations, especially when licensing or trading IP assets in or out. Zacco’s unique expert team ensures a strategy that is dynamically adjusted to align with an evolving business plan. After these steps, the companies will receive helps to implement the strategy.