Strategic intellectual property consultation
The strategic consultation service provides quick answers to questions connecting business objectives with intellectual property (IP). When developing a new product or service, consult our intellectual property specialist before making it public! The specialist will help draw attention to the possible risks and the potential that accompanies the IP included in and surrounding your product and advise a course of action.
Intellectual property diagnostics of products and services
You have a new product and are preparing to enter a new market? How to ensure the market advantage of your core technology over its competitors? How serious is the potential threat from the local patent owners? How to create an additional revenue stream out of the intellectual property created during development? Product (or service) intellectual property diagnostics help you to find answers to all these questions.
Intellectual property strategy diagnostics
Any enterprise that invests in product development, should also ensure that the consequential intellectual property, like any other asset, will be protected and exploited to its full business potential. If and when to apply for patents for the products of the enterprise, when and how to license technologies, how to find customers willing to pay for licences – these are the important questions that will be answered by the diagnostics.
The intellectual property services of Enterprise Estonia are open to entrepreneurs exporting products developed and manufactured in Estonia, or those who want to start doing so.
Enterprise Estonia shall not be held responsible for any decisions or actions of the service recipient, or any decrease in their profit, loss of income, loss of profit, non-pecuniary damages, or any other indirect damages.
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Consultation services are free of charge for up to 2 hours of face-to-face time (up to 5 total work hours) but are subject to the rules of de minimis aid based on the service-providing specialist’s hourly rate. Diagnostics services are subject to a fee and the total cost will be calculated on the basis of the hourly rate of the specialist providing the service. The enterprise’s own contribution is 30% of the service cost, the remaining part of the service cost shall be included in the de minimis aid. You can check the balance of the company’s de minimis aid on the website of the Ministry of Finance.
If your company is interested in this service, please contact the Enterprise Estonia intellectual property specialist
Siim Kinnas, M.Sc.Tech
5858 7212
siim.kinnas@eas.ee
If you already are a customer of Enterprise Estonia, please contact your customer relationship manager.