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AMTEC Consulting plc,
Excalibur House,
2 The Millennium Centre,
Crosby Way, Farnham,
Surrey, GU9 7XX.
Tel: 01252 737866
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Intellectual Property

For many organisations staff expertise, processes, software developments and other types of knowledge lay undisturbed within databases, electronic documents, archives and memories. This knowledge can be one of the most valuable assets that an organisation has within its control.
When it comes to exploiting the intellectual property owned by public sector organisations, recent shifts in UK policy and regulation have created a climate for change. Public sector organisations are now required to demonstrate that they are maximising efficiencies and commercial opportunities for all their assets on an ongoing basis (see Operational Efficiency Programme, Final Report April 2009).
Our Approach
AMTEC Consulting helps organisations to understand and comply with this new landscape and unlock the potential value from the intellectual assets they own. Our IP Consulting Service offers a wide range of support, including:
  • Leadership Support - Our strategic commercial IP consultants provide expert advice and strategic support to managers using a wide range of techniques including mentoring, coaching, brainstorming, workshops and briefing sessions to help identify and manage cultural, intellectual or operational barriers to the exploitation of IP assets.
  • Strategic Scoping Study - Our study enables organisations to understand and appreciate the nature and potential of their intangible assets, to recognise that unlocking their value is consistent with current public sector policies and to formulate an appropriate commercial policy and intellectual asset management strategy.
  • Intellectual asset audit - The purpose of the audit is to provide a detailed review of intellectual assets. This can be completed as a standalone exercise or as part of the Strategic Scoping Study. The audit is used to identify those intangible assets that offer the most commercial potential by capturing and recording the key metadata for intellectual assets; achieved through a detailed review of intellectual assets.
  • Commercialisation support - Our consultants provide practical, hands-on support to in-house teams to help set up processes which ensure that intangible rights are established and protected by selecting and preparing assets for exploitation, establishing processes to support licensing, and formulating compliance and pricing policies.
Outcomes
  • Clarification around the definition of intangible assets.
  • An identification and assessment of the potential value of the intangible assets.
  • An understanding of government accounting rules and governance mechanisms, which are often perceived to militate against such development.
  • The development and nurture of routes and processes (e.g. tools, skills and incentives) that support the cost-effective exploitation of information assets.
  • An understanding of the complexity and ambiguity around regulatory and guidance frameworks that may inhibit effective exploitation.
Benefits of our approach
These include:
  • helping to identify and manage cultural, intellectual or operational barriers to the exploitation of IP assets.
  • helping the organisation to understand and appreciate the nature and potential of intangible assets, to recognise that unlocking their value is consistent with current public sector policies, and to formulate an appropriate commercial policy.
  • identifying those intangible assets that offer the most commercial potential by capturing and recording the key metadata for intellectual assets.
  • helping the organisation to set up processes which ensure that intangible rights are established and protected by selecting and preparing assets for exploitation, establishing processes to support licensing, and formulating compliance and pricing policies.
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