TechIPI Pty Ltd is an established company formed to provide joint "Legal Advice on Intellectual Property (IP)" and "Technology Transfer Services" to the "Corporate/Public/Private World". TechIPI provides legal IP advice and technology transfer services, consulting, mentoring and training in inventions/innovations and technology transfer from idea to market. It focuses on a combination of services related to inventor advisory and IP due diligence service, invention/technology evaluation (tech), intellectual property and specifically patent advice from the provisional stage, through examination to granting (IP) in the PCT and National Phase filing stages and innovation spiraling (commercial-ready products) including commercialization strategy and technology transfer contracts (I). These services are offered to Corporations, tech start-ups, companies, universities, business incubators, manufacturers, management schools and government departments. This includes a network of essential supporting roles with links to specialized services (eg: patent attorneys/legal council/business services). Assistance with the IP transaction process and contracts. Specialized active training courses are offered: invention process, intellectual property types, understanding patent process, specifications and patent claims including novelty and obviousness defenses, technology innovation process (technology readiness levels) and customized courses, including one-on-one training. Consulting in engineering IP and innovation is a specialized skill offered by TechIPI. Wesite: www.techipi.co.za, cell: 0827497064 email: atkinsonhopeg@techipi.co.za mission: IP and Technology Transfer Services.

Legal Advisor Intellectual Property (IP)Services:Provide IP opinions and advice on TIA’s projects, platforms and programmes and to business units. Invention novelty and infringement searches. IP strategies.Drafting of reports regarding the outcomes of IP property searches and assessments.Assisting in the drafting and review of contracts and the resolution of disputes on IP.Attending meetings and consultations with internal and external clients and stakeholders and providing necessary input on IP.Interfacing with and monitoring the work of external IP attorneys.Attending investment committee meetings and providing IP advice.Participating in internal and external workshops/seminars.Creating awareness of IP issues.Legal advice on Intellectual Property and Associated Laws and their Practice.Due Diligence on invention and innovation technology transfer from idea to market.Handling the complexity and Evaluation of inventions and/or innovations, to assess and determine Patentability and/or other IP rights. Conducting patent searches and evaluation of invention patent claims and processing to grant.Novelty, Infringement and Freedom to Operate Assessments and advice.Facilitating Patent Protection through registration. Providing technology transfer opinion/advice on commercialisation strategies.Advice on Global Patenting Process from initial patent filing to Grant. IP Management, Training and Mentoring.Industrial Design and Trademark advice and protection through registration.Assistance with Funding Applications.Presentations on Technology Transfer (Technology Readiness Levels) to foster and grow invention and innovation within companies. Purpose to create IP/Technology Transfer awareness and its value to companies.Assist with recruitment of IP and Innovation Staff for companies. General Consultancy to public and private organizations.Contact: cell 0827497064 Gary Atkinson-Hope@tia.org.za (atkinsonhopeg@techipi.co.za)

Focus for the last 6 years has been on: Invention disclosure evaluationPatents and Industrial designsIP registration and Management:Investigation to establish whether the invention is original/uniqueRegistration of the patent, design, trade mark or plant breeders rightsProtection of know-how Technology Transfer, Licensing and industrial partnership agreements involving inventionsCommercialization:Estimate commercial potential of inventions and project.Investigation into the possibilities for exploitation Assistance with market analysis. Assistance with business plans.Methods of exploitation (licensing, sale of rights, establishing of partnerships, spin-off company). Sources of financing.Industrial 3rd Stream Income contractsTechnology Transfer ContractsIntellectual Property Rights from Publicly Financed Research and Development Act No 51 of 2008Assistance with Innovation PitchingFormation of spin out companiesIntellectual Property TrainingInnovation Value Chain Training