Marketplace for Intellectual Property Rights

Iprbox Oy offers an intellectual property rights marketplace that brings intellectual property rights owners and potential purchasers together. Iprbox Oy mediates intellectual property rights, helps companies to find relevant intellectual property rights and supports in licensing negations.

Iprbox Oy protects the asset of the marketplace with intellectual property rights. Iprbox Oy can also take the risk to develop a prototype product that proves the potential of the invention to the purchaser.

Iprbox Oy invests in intellectual property rights. The investment effort has developed the patent portfolio to contain number of valuable intellectual property rights that company further develops and processes. The intellectual property rights are from various fields, including information technology, communication technology, process technology and pharmaceuticals. In addition to own portfolio, Iprbox Oy has an access to the patent portfolio of the partner network.

Working on Behalf of Customer

Protecting an invention, developing prototypes and other research efforts are tasks that the purchaser should do before a new idea can be brought to the market. The purchaser saves time and therefore can invest to new technology or product with a considerable smaller risk.

Iprbox Oy can also represent the customer in licensing negotiations or even acquire an intellectual property right for the customer. The Iprbox® team assists in finding the relevant patents for a field or a technology, and scan the needs for further licensing.

Licensing Process

An invention or an existing intellectual property right is the starting point of the licensing process. Iprbox Oy analyzes the commercial potential of the asset as well as the patent protection coverage and ability to protect the asset in general. Based on the results, Iprbox Oy makes a decision to start the process. Only few ideas and patents meet the Iprbox criteria.

Protecting the asset with intellectual property rights is the corner stone of the process. Iprbox Oy files the required patent and trademark applications. Because the patenting process can take long time, Iprbox Oy sells some inventions as trade secrets. In those cases, the purchaser has full control to further develop the protection or to keep the invention as a trade secret.

A licensing contract is always negotiated case by case. The details of the contract depend on the properties of the asset as well as the preconditions set by both the purchaser and seller. Usually all the relevant intellectual property rights, pending applications, research results and prototypes are transferred to the purchaser in a technology transfer project. Iprbox Oy can manage the technology transfer project.