Intellectual property

Don't overlook Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) for your business success! Discover how to protect your unique invention, prevent competitors from copying it, and choose the best strategy to ensure its value. Explore licensing options, safeguard confidential information, and take action against product copycats. Let us help you navigate IPR challenges and safeguard your innovations and data.

Protect actively your business

Companies of all sizes, from sole traders or SMEs to large enterprises, across various industries, can benefit from intellectual property expertise to protect their innovations and gain a competitive edge. Whether you’re a sole trader, SME or large enterprise, it will provide you a competitive advantage in the market.

The strategic use of IPRs will secure the valorisation path of innovations. We can help you in providing information, advising on how to protect your invention, defining your strategy and formulating solutions adapted to your business.

Ignoring intellectual property expertise can result in the loss of valuable innovations, vulnerability to infringement, missed opportunities for collaboration and licensing, and potential legal disputes. Let us help you navigate your IP concerns and challenges.

Tailored IP advise, powered by the Sirris Patent Cell

The Sirris Patent Cell, founded with the support of FOD Economy, SMEs, Middle Classes and Energy, is your contact point for all your questions related to intellectual property. Our experts tailor their advice to your actual needs, as each business has its unique challenges.

Information and training

We raise awareness and inform companies about the importance of intellectual property rights, recent updates, and their optimal use throughout the innovation process.

This includes:

General information on different IPRs and application requirements (patents, copyrights, trademarks, designs, etc.)
Recent developments in IPR
Tax incentives related to IPR

Searches

We support you with IP searches in the following areas:

Patent searches (legal status, ownership, scope of claims, etc.)
Patentability searches
Competitor searches
Freedom-to-operate searches
Landscaping
Trademark and design searches

IP protection

We bridge the gap between you and IP attorneys by providing advice on:

Patents (EPO, PCT, US, etc.)
Patent prosecution
i-DEPOT
Trademarks
Trade secrets
Copyrights

IP strategy

Together, we develop an overall IP strategy, managing your intangible assets and integrating them into your broader business strategy. We advise you on IP identification, possible protection measures, and the development of an IP portfolio aligned with your IP and business strategy.

IP business

Sirris advises you on the commercial aspects of your IPR, such as:

Licensing and technology transfer
IP in collaborations
IP valuation
IP in mergers and acquisitions
IP audit

Ecosystem and trend analysis

Leverage our unique dataset and IP expertise to identify potential partners, gain insight into future competition, detect emerging technologies, and validate your innovation. Using patent databases, we help you uncover the latest technology trends, breakthroughs, and innovations, identify white spaces, and spot potential partners.

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Intellectual Properties webcasts

The Intellectual Property Team (IP-Team) has created, with experts, short webcast video's on several themes regarding Intellectual Property, Patents, etc.

Discover all the webcasts

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Useful links and data bases

Would you like to know more about intellectual property, the tools and data bases, anti-counterfeiting, ...? We maintain a number of useful links, addresses and data bases.

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