Intellectual property

Protect your SaMD and AIaMD intellectual property


Your intellectual property is unique

Our full stack IP services run along a natural flow from IP audit to strategy to management. Hardian adds value and actionable outcomes at each stage, ensuring protection for your innovation globally. As specialist sin SaMD and AI medical devices, we know exactly how to protect your technology. We work collaboratively and transparently, at a pace that suits you.

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Your IP expert

Work closely with Stephen Carter, our Senior Consultant in IP and Patenting, to actively manage your intellectual property, safeguarding your innovations and empowering you to achieve your commercial objectives in the competitive health tech marketplace.

  • A freedom to operate opinion (FTO) is a legal opinion from a qualified intellectual property attorney that concludes a proposed commercial product or process may be made, used, sold, or offered for sale without infringing another party's intellectual property rights.

    Hardian can conduct FTO research for your product and provide a formal legal opinion, suitable for presentation to investors, grant funders or buyers.

  • Yes!

    The practical application of the algorithm may well be patentable. This can be the case even where the only difference between what is already known and your new innovation is the algorithm itself.

    You can read more in our article about this here.

  • Yes, we can conduct international patent and copyright searches and help you file for protection in any jurisdiction that you require.

    First, we work with you to define your IP assets, then formulate a strategy to ensure you are covered globally wherever you intend to enter the market.

  • How long a patent lasts can depend on the type of patent, and the jurisdiction.

    In general, patents last up to 20 years, however there may be requirements for you to continually update the patent to maintain protection - that’s why we offer complete IP management services, so you can rest assured your IP remains secure.

  • At Hardian we provide full stack Intellectual Property services, from identifying your IP and copyrightable assets, to defining their value, mitigating their risks, and securing patenting and trademarking.

    Equally, we help you demonstrate Freedom to Operate by ensuring you are not infringing on the IP rights of others.

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