Success for your business depends on creativity and innovation. But how do you cultivate a culture of innovation? Through high quality training and world class processes. We can refine your harvesting process to establish clear triggers for documenting or submitting innovations and guidelines for what information to submit. We can develop and provide training for engineers and businesspeople. Improved innovation processes and training will enable you to better harness your innovations to drive your company’s valuation.
Your inventions may be complicated. Protecting them in a way that is aligned with your business goals shouldn’t be. Longship Legal can help you develop a patent strategy and secure patent assets that advance your business goals, whether your business is in startup mode, scale-up mode, or stable mid-market. We are registered US patent attorneys with deep experience helping companies develop business-aligned patent portfolios. We help develop patents that maximize future business options.
Your brand identity and the economic value in your brand names, logos, slogans, and domain names are legally protected by trademarks. Longship Legal can help align your brand protection with your business goals. We advise on the level of effort involved in pursuing proposed branding, and point out potential business and legal challenges early. We can search and assess your proposed trademarks, prepare and prosecute U.S. and international trademark applications, and defend your trademark applications in response to office actions and opposition proceedings.
Your confidential information that provides value to your company is protected by the law of trade secrets. In alignment with your business and legal strategy, we work with you to identify key confidential information, and to develop and implement policies and operations to establish legal protection for your confidential information. We assist with developing processes to ensure compliance with confidentiality requirements in existing and proposed contracts.
Software and works of art are protected by copyrights. In alignment with your business and legal strategy, we work with you to evaluate and protect software including reviewing your use of open source code and evaluation of relevant license requirements. We review your use of generative AI. We evaluate software development practices and implementation of strategic policies and operations. We also assist with copyright registration of your creative works.
We don’t use the billable hour. Really. The billable hour model takes attorneys out of alignment with clients, creates an incentive for attorneys to sell hours as work units, and worst of all causes clients to avoid calling their lawyers for advice and counsel. We don’t want you to be afraid to pick up the phone or to include us in a meeting. Longship Legal provides services on project fees or pre-negotiated subscriptions to enable predictable forecasting of legal fees. Working with Longship Legal means knowing what your subscription or package will cost up front, like the other non-legal services that your business purchases, so you know what services you are receiving and can budget in advance. We take the guesswork out of hiring a trusted legal advisor.
