Start-up

Accelerate your growth with a tailored Intellectual Property (IP) strategy

IP: a sustainable competitive advantage

Intellectual Property is a key tool for setting your company apart. It ensures the differentiation of your products or services by protecting your innovations (patents, trademarks, designs, copyrights, trade secrets).

It also helps strengthen your position in the market by limiting the arrival of competitors who might copy your solutions.

Monetization and value creation

Your IP can become a significant source of revenue and expand the reach of your innovations through licensing agreements or technological collaborations.

The sale or transfer of assets can also serve as a source of liquidity or a lever for external growth, depending on your development strategy.

Access to financing and corporate attractiveness

As a true strategic asset, Intellectual Property increases the value of your start-up and facilitates access to financing, enhances attractiveness to investors, and supports the preparation of an exit strategy (acquisition, IPO).

Startups that hold patent and trademarks during their initial seed or early growth stages are up to ten times more likely to secure funding.
Source: Patents, Trade Marks and Startup Finance – EPO / EUIPO, 2023.

The clarity and strength of your IP portfolio also facilitate collaborations with large corporations and public institutions, which tend to rely more on start-ups that have a firm grasp of their intangible assets.

Legal protection and risk reduction

A structured Intellectual Property strategy helps you avoid disputes by limiting the risks of counterfeiting, plagiarism, or infringement of your rights. It also provides the necessary legal tools to effectively defend your interests against any infringing party or unauthorized use.

Lavoix provides you with a multidisciplinary team of Intellectual Property Attorneys and Attorneys-at-law who work together to address all you IP need: strategies, procedures, risk analyses, and litigation.

You will have a dedicated point of contact to help you develop your strategy and answer your questions.

Your portfolio of rights is accessible at any time through our IP data² platform, which centralizes and secures all your data.

Finally, we offer solutions tailored to your budget, prioritizing essential steps and integrating available public funding into your action plan.

Lavoix supports start-ups at every stage of their development

  • Starting your business?
    We offer a free meeting to identify the key intellectual property issues: protection of your trademark, logo or domain name, inventory of existing rights, and initial strategies for protecting and managing your assets.

  • Developing a product or service?
    We identify your competitors’ rights, assess the risks associated with the exploitation of your innovations, advise you on the actions to take to strengthen your market position.

  • Entering into a partnership?
    We assist you in drafting, negotiating, and implementing agreements – confidentiality, licensing, collaboration, consortium, coexistence – to secure your business and protect your assets.

  • Planning a fundraising round or an IPO?
    We conduct a comprehensive audit of your Intellectual Property assets, provide recommendations to reinforce the strength of your rights, and assess the value of your portfolio to enhance its attractiveness to investors.

  • Facing a dispute?
    Depending on the situation, we verify the validity of the rights at issue, analyse the nature of the infringement and associated risks, and define with you the most appropriate resolution strategy: negotiation, mediation or litigation.