For manufacturers and product companies
IP Exposure Review
A fixed-scope review of what your company owns, what it thinks it owns, and what it has already lost. You get a register, a list of products that can no longer be protected, the trademark gaps by class, the ownership defects in your agreements, and a costed twelve-month filing plan. Quoted in writing before anything starts.
Every right, from the public registers
Products past the point of registration
Trademark classes left open
Twelve months, costed
The moment this review is for
A manufacturer walks a trade fair and sees his own product on another stall at a lower price. By then the question is no longer how to protect the design. It is whether it was ever protectable, and the answer usually turns on dates nobody wrote down. The review puts those dates on paper before someone else forces the question.
Deliverables
What you receive
A register of your rights
Every patent, design, trademark and copyright filed in the company’s name, in former names and in the founders’ names, with status, territory and renewal date, taken from the public registers rather than from memory.
Products past the point of registration
Items whose own market presence has already destroyed the novelty a design or patent needs. This is the list nobody argues with, because it is your own catalogue against your own launch dates.
Trademark gaps by class
Where the brand is unprotected, in which of the 45 classes, and which classes competitors already hold.
Ownership defects
The contractor and employee agreements that leave the company without clear title to what it paid for, and the clause that fixes each.
A costed, prioritised twelve-month plan
What to file first, what to let go, what to watch, with official and professional fees shown separately.
Inputs
What we need from you
The product list or catalogue; brand names as used, including variants; any filing numbers you have; one standard contractor agreement and one employment agreement; launch dates for the products that matter most. Half a day of someone’s time, usually the owner or the design head, for one working session.
Three steps
How it runs
Scoping call and written quote
We agree what is in scope and you receive a written, fixed quote before anything starts.
The review
Registers searched, products dated, agreements read, usually two to three weeks from receiving the inputs.
A walkthrough
With your technical and commercial people, with the plan in writing.
Limits
What the review is not
It is not a legal opinion on infringement; that is a freedom-to-operate search, sold per product, and we will tell you if you need one. It is not a promise that anything will be registered; registration is the examiner’s decision. It is not a sales document for a retainer; most companies act on the plan with us, some take it elsewhere, and the plan is written so that either works.
Why MYCrave
Why MYCrave
Twelve years of filing and prosecution, 22,000+ IPR filings and 11,000+ clients, with offices in Vadodara, Sangli, Udaipur and Montreal. Product-side design work is a different discipline from academic filing: representation sheets from production drawings, the registered article matching what is sold, novelty tested against live competitors. Read how it went for a modular furniture range and how a healthcare patent reached the market.
Straight answers
Questions companies ask
How much does the review cost?
It is quoted in writing after the scoping call, as a fixed fee for a fixed scope.
Will you tell us if there is nothing worth filing?
Yes. A short plan is a legitimate outcome, and letting a right lapse on purpose is sometimes the right call.
Can we do it for one product line only?
Yes. Scope follows the catalogue, and a single line is a common starting point.
Is our information safe with you?
A mutual NDA is signed before we see the catalogue or the agreements, and the review is handled by the people named in the quote.
IP Exposure Review
Get a written quote for your review.
Scope follows your catalogue, and the fee is fixed in writing before anything starts.