IP Readiness Assessment
Assess Your Intellectual Property Strategy
Is Your Innovation Ready for Patents and Investment?
Assess your company's intellectual property readiness for filing patents, registering trademarks, and securing venture capital funding.
Venture capitalists rarely invest in companies without strong IP protection. Patents and trademarks create competitive moats that protect your innovations and increase company valuation.
This Assessment Evaluates:
- Innovation documentation and prior art analysis
- IP ownership clarity and confidentiality practices
- Testing records and competitive landscape awareness
- Brand protection and international IP strategy
- Freedom-to-operate and VC fundraising readiness
Assessment Details:
- 15 targeted questions
- Takes 5-8 minutes to complete
- Receive your readiness score and personalized recommendations
- Get expert guidance on strengthening your IP position
What this tool does
Investors ask what stops a competitor copying you, and "we move fast" is not an answer they fund. This assesses whether your innovation is actually protected: what is patentable and whether you have filed, how trade secrets are handled, who owns work done by contractors, and whether your agreements assign IP to the company.
What IP should a startup protect before raising funding?
Trademark on the name, patents on genuinely novel technical work, and above all written assignment of IP from every founder, employee and contractor. The last one is the most commonly missed and the hardest to fix later.
Who owns code written by a freelancer?
Without a written assignment clause, often the freelancer rather than you. This surfaces in due diligence at the worst possible moment.