Cylindrical Vector is a non-attorney business consulting firm primarily focused on increasing client enterprise value by leveraging Intellectual Property.* This is accomplished by assisting clients in the identification of IP opportunities within their operations and within their existing IP base, and putting the enterprise on a sustainable path to rational IP strategy, development, and management. Services include: • Assessing current IP position. • Assessing competitive IP positions. • Working with enterprise employees to identify IP opportunities. • Training enterprise employees to create a sustainable “IP Culture”. • Advising on selection of outside counsel. • Assisting with fee structure negotiations with outside counsel. • Aligning outside counsel work with enterprise goals and business strategies. • Advising C-level enterprise executives responsible for the day-to-day management of outside counsel. • Reducing non-value added costs by assisting in decisions on foreign patent filings, patent maintenance payments, and incremental patent claims. • Reducing non-value added costs and improving IP filing quality by facilitating filing draft language development between inventors and attorneys. • If infringement of enterprise IP is found participating in the development of strategies to license, or litigate if needed. • Assisting in negotiations to acquire or cross-license IP or to acquire IP based product lines or businesses. • Assisting with IP due diligence efforts on the buy side or the sell side. • Coordinating the creation of valuation models for company IP. *Cylindrical Vector, LLC is not a law firm and does not provide legal advice or counsel. If you are in need of legal advice you should engage the services of a professional attorney or law firm licensed to practice law in your jurisdiction.