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Reconnaissance caters to clients from all technology areas and industry sectors. Our client base ranges from individual creators to government bodies including universities, hospitals, research & academic institutions, startups and accelerator labs. We also cater to small, medium & large-sized companies, global conglomerates and Fortune 500 companies, in-house counsel, law firms, professionals and investors. We advise our clients at any stage of development- right from coming up with an idea to selling their product/service/company in the market. 

Below is a short representative description of how we assist some of our clients. Please note that we offer all of our services to all our clients in India as well as globally. If you are unsure about which services apply to you, please contact us. We can identify which services are suitable for you and are pertinent to your organization at any given stage. We can also give you a timeline of future services and activities that you can undertake for the benefit of your business.

We assist individual creators such as inventors, designers, artists and company owners in conducting patent, trademark and design searches. Such searches have many functions like reducing the risk of market entry and litigation by third parties. They also inform client’s R&D efforts to be directed in the right direction and stop clients from wasting time, effort and money in reinventing the wheel. 

Reconnaissance also provides clients with all its services for the commercialization of IP through technology transfer or licensing. This includes the latest tech inventions, paintings, music, film, brand names, designer products, etc. We assist individual clients in finding the right business partners and avoiding potential pitfalls. We support them through all steps including agreement drafting to negotiations to final contract signing and execution.

At Reconnaissance, we assist venture capitalists and private investors with due diligence and valuation of the IP portfolio companies. This includes the valuation of the same IP portfolio of companies they may want to buy. The IP valuation is followed by IP auditing to understand the strengths of the portfolio. We also run a market success potential through selling or licensing or franchising.

We assist the General Counsel and in-house IP teams of Indian corporates for all their search, analytics and IP commercialization needs – in India and throughout the world. Our team works with the client for IP strategy and IP policy. We conduct the necessary due diligence or IP audit for clients that do not have an IP team. We assist clients in finding the right business partners globally for merger, acquisition and joint venture requirements. 

As per the client’s requirement, we put infrastructure in place before resources are deployed on any project. This enables us to consider the state of the market and other intelligence factors for the best chances of success. Our clients range from startups and accelerator labs to small & medium-sized companies(SMEs). They also include proprietary firms, private and public partnerships to the biggest corporates and conglomerates in India including Indian Fortune 500 companies.

We assist the General counsel, in-house IP teams and Business heads of numerous foreign companies. Typically, these companies choose us to carry out searches and analytics in India. They also trust us for monetizing IP and finding business partners in India or assisting them with mergers and acquisitions. Our cost competitiveness and responsiveness including timely project delivery is also appreciated by clients.

Increasingly, however, we are being retained to do work for foreign clients in other jurisdictions like the USA, Europe, Australia, South Korea etc. The reason for this is our proven internal expertise in searching, analytics and commercialization (as seen clearly in the number of domestic clients that use us for these services). We offer a full range of our services to foreign clients in India and throughout the world.

Reconnaissance is one of the leading choices for foreign law firms that require search, analytics and commercialization services. We are instructed regularly for our legal associates from around the world who choose us as their trusted partners. Our expertise, responsiveness and ability to deliver on-point, easy to read results help us satisfy the client’s requirements, always. Foreign law firms (including both IP and general law firms) appreciate the range of customizable solutions we offer. 

Our unique solutions range from quick one-day priority searches to massive freedom to operate searches for over 50 items at any given time. They appreciate that we are always available to them – whether by email or through a call. We also work with our foreign associates to assist us in different jurisdictions. Since many jurisdictions do not provide IP databases online, we collect reviews from a local associate to provide clients with accurate results. We also provide Indian clients with corporate or tax services. This helps us build lasting relationships with our clients.

At Reconnaissance, we assist chartered accountants in activities like mergers and acquisitions, valuation and advice regarding tax issues and IP. We also assist advertising/ marketing firms in conducting trademark and design searches for their clients along with monetizing them. Further, our services are stretched to assisting banks and lending organizations. We help them determine the value of assets to be mortgaged (collateral) in exchange for loans regularly.

We assist universities and research organizations in building a solid IP policy and structure whereby we carry out the vetting of new ideas by conducting searches and thus help the client decide on which projects to prioritize and take forward and which to abandon as they have already been done before. We work with many University Technology Transfer Offices and Licensing Managers. We work with doctors and research hospitals as well. When products are viable for the market, we conduct Freedom to operate searches and also valuation for IP assignment or licensing and franchising options as required.

Reconnaissance works with government departments and government-funded organizations. We help them successfully minimize the risk of undertaking projects and increase the chances of success. We also assist such clients in commercializing their inventions and designs through assignment and licensing. We assist all the government bodies and institutes in developing a robust internal IP policy to make the best use of public money.