Many of the services Kogitant has provided over the years have involved solving complex, one-off commercial and legal situations within the technology-based new venture arena.

Kogitant has a track record of successfully and rapidly firstly understanding such situations and secondly addressing them promptly as they arise for clients.

The following services have proven to be those most often taken up by new clients:

Commercially-focussed IP due diligence for potential venture investors

• Rapidly come up to speed with deal situation
• Carry out IP due diligence and create appropriate report. Report includes:

- One-page overview of relevant findings

- Patent maps of relevant IP environment and citation analysis reports – giving indications of commercial value of underlying technology

- Opinion on patentability of subject-matter and schematic representations of patent cover available

- Graphic depiction of geographic coverage obtainable

- IP forward costs estimate

• Subsequently support negotiations on IP legal issues and clauses; providing suggestions of solutions for issues and draft clauses to address outstanding issues

IP Audit for tech start-ups

• As per the IP due diligence above, but conducted to facilitate appropriate presentation of the start-up’s IP position to potential investors.

Detailed deal negotiation support in funding and licensing transactions

• Act as independent legal counsel for a potential investee company/licensor during deal negotiation – ensuring the company is well-informed on the issues being negotiated and ensuring appropriate documentation is provided to the potential investor.
• In funding situations, payment for such services can be partially success-based and paid from invested funds as part of the overall transaction at execution.

Flexible interim IP management/legal counsel/‘C-level’ for tech start-ups

• Come up to speed rapidly, making a commercial assessment of the team’s current commercial (and IP) situation and suggesting priorities for action.
• In appropriate circumstances, ‘join the team’ at executive level on a flexible interim basis – particularly, for example, through the process of closing funding.
• Provide executional IP advice and support – e.g. taking on the commercial and legal tasks of IP management, insulating the CEO from spending too much of their time on this single issue.