Intellectual Property and Contract Governance

Intellectual Property and Contract Governance

KPMG professionals help clients to minimize intellectual property management risks

KPMG professionals help clients to minimize intellectual property management risks

KPMG offers Intellectual Property and Contract Governance (IP&CG) services to companies with significant operations through a supplier, distributor or partner that wish to ensure that contractual arrangements are being adhered to. Moreover, our IP&CG services are useful to companies that wish to better manage, or ensure that they obtain full value from their Intellectual Property (IP).

How we can help

  • Rationalize / integrate client's IP portfolio to help management understand what IP uses, owns and protects. 
  • Identify gaps in protection, plot future protection strategies, identify potential infringements and help ensure IP strategy is aligned with overall corporate strategy. 
  • Audit third parties licensed to use client IP to help ensure full value / compliance obtained from the agreement. 
  • Independently validate and feedback on financial and operational aspects of third party performance (e.g. QA, health & safety). 
  • Independently advise on the quality of the third party relationship and contract management process.

Potential benefits

  • Minimization of IP risks such as being sued for IP infringement, duplication of effort, wasted costs, lost revenues, erosion of competitive advantage.
  • Protection / enhancement of competitive advantage and potential for value creation by ensuring IP strategies are linked to overall business strategies. 
  • We have identified savings in 70% of the 1,000+ reviews we have undertaken, amounting in some cases to 10 times our fees.

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