Intellectual property is a tool for business development
Used correctly, intellectual property tools protect the differentiation and value proposition of your company, product and service. Our experts can help you identify your company’s intellectual assets and put them on the wagon of your business strategy.
There is no application process to use the service. To use the service, contact us either by clicking the button below or by writing directly to our experts:’
- Protection of business secrets, trademarks and designs, intellectual property law relations
- Marius Kuningas (EST, ENG), [email protected]
- Protecting copyright, developing intellectual property strategies, commercial advice on licensing strategy, intellectual property litigation
- Jelizaveta Lazonen (EST, ENG, RUS), [email protected]
- Technology transfer, protection of industrial property rights, development of intellectual property strategies, commercialisation of intellectual property.
- Siim Kinnas (EST, ENG), [email protected]
- Technology intelligence – tech. scouting and foresight, state of the art studies, freedom to operate (FTO) scouting
- Helena Nulk-Leemets (EST, ENG), [email protected]
How can we help?
Protect your unique value proposition!
Intellectual property tools give you control over who can use what you develop and how. We help you discover valuable assets and take the first steps towards a business-supporting IP strategy.
Manage the risks of development and maintain freedom to operate!
You're not the only one thinking about intellectual property protection. We can help you think through how to consider the rights of others and how to act if infringes are identified.
Give commercial value to intellectual assets!
Knowledge is gold. We can help you develop a plan for the commercialisation of your intellectual property and advise you on negotiating intellectual property rights.
For whom is the service intended?
If you represent an Estonian company in need of business or strategic advice on intellectual property, you are welcome to consult on, for example, the following topics.:
- develops or applies (for example, under licence) novel technology or research results; or
- is preparing to enter the market with its new, export-oriented, innovative product or service, or
- plans to enter into a development collaboration with a company or research institution where new intellectual property may be created, or
- plans to license intellectual property in or out.
This is not a legal service.
By providing the service, we are not liable for the decisions and actions of the recipient or for any loss of profit, loss of income, loss of revenue, non-material damage or other consequential loss suffered by the recipient.
Before registering
To ensure that we all spend our time as efficiently as possible, please read our guidance materials on the types of intellectual property before contacting us. You may well find the answers to your questions there!
Get in contact
Send a request by e-mail to [email protected] or a relevant expert, describing your business and explaining what you need help with.
All of our experts are bound by confidentiality obligations and we ensure that commercially sensitive information about the company is kept out of the hands of unrelated parties, including other Foundation staff. We are also prepared to enter into an additional confidentiality agreement with the company if necessary.
Our intellectual property experts and their specialisations are:
- Protection of trademarks and designs
- Intellectual property in employment and contract law agreements
- Trade secrets and confidential information
- Intellectual property audits
+372 5851 6617
- Developing intellectual property strategies
- Protecting copyright
- Protecting inventions
- Intellectual property licensing agreements
- Intellectual property audits
- Technology intelligence and innovation intelligence analytics
- Search for suitable technologies, comparative analysis of technologies
- Technique level studies, feasibility studies
- Freedom to operate searches and analyses
- Protecting technological developments
- Freedom to operate searches and analyses
- Developing intellectual property strategies
- Intellectual property in development cooperation agreements
- Licences and technology transfer
Consultation
The consultations are carried out either on site at the company or online, according to prior agreement.
If a company needs additional services from the private market, such as patent attorneys or legal advisers, in addition to or after the advice, we will also help the company to find suitable service providers, without favouring one provider over another. We have an extensive international network, which enables us to find the right candidates for your company’s needs, from which you can make an independent choice.
Once the company confirms that it has received the appropriate amount of advice, the service is considered provided. There is no further reporting for the company
Cost
Up to 5 expert hours per year are free of charge for any company registered in Estonia (not de minimis aid (VTA) under the block exemption rules for innovation services). From 6 hours onwards, the company will be invoiced at €100/hour plus VAT.
When the 5 hours allotted to the company start to run out, the consultant will inform the company. If the company finds that it needs further advice, it has the option of continuing the service on a fee-paying basis, or starting to work with the private market providers described above.
How to use
To ensure that we all spend our time as efficiently as possible, please read our guidance materials on the types of intellectual property before contacting us. You may well find the answers to your questions there!
Send a request by e-mail to [email protected] or a relevant expert, describing your business and explaining what you need help with.
All of our experts are bound by confidentiality obligations and we ensure that commercially sensitive information about the company is kept out of the hands of unrelated parties, including other Foundation staff. We are also prepared to enter into an additional confidentiality agreement with the company if necessary.
Our intellectual property experts and their specialisations are:
- Protection of trademarks and designs
- Intellectual property in employment and contract law agreements
- Trade secrets and confidential information
- Intellectual property audits
+372 5851 6617
- Developing intellectual property strategies
- Protecting copyright
- Protecting inventions
- Intellectual property licensing agreements
- Intellectual property audits
- Technology intelligence and innovation intelligence analytics
- Search for suitable technologies, comparative analysis of technologies
- Technique level studies, feasibility studies
- Freedom to operate searches and analyses
- Protecting technological developments
- Freedom to operate searches and analyses
- Developing intellectual property strategies
- Intellectual property in development cooperation agreements
- Licences and technology transfer
The consultations are carried out either on site at the company or online, according to prior agreement.
If a company needs additional services from the private market, such as patent attorneys or legal advisers, in addition to or after the advice, we will also help the company to find suitable service providers, without favouring one provider over another. We have an extensive international network, which enables us to find the right candidates for your company’s needs, from which you can make an independent choice.
Once the company confirms that it has received the appropriate amount of advice, the service is considered provided. There is no further reporting for the company
Cost
Up to 5 expert hours per year are free of charge for any company registered in Estonia (not de minimis aid (VTA) under the block exemption rules for innovation services). From 6 hours onwards, the company will be invoiced at €100/hour plus VAT.
When the 5 hours allotted to the company start to run out, the consultant will inform the company. If the company finds that it needs further advice, it has the option of continuing the service on a fee-paying basis, or starting to work with the private market providers described above.
