Broker-dealers, venture capital investors and those merging or acquiring a business, perform what is called “due diligence” reviews to understand the operations of the Company, the finances of the Company and the intellectual property portions of the Company, amongst many other factors.

The intellectual property component of any due diligence is complex in today’s high-tech savvy world.  It is far more complex if the company involved is a technology company.

We have developed an intellectual property compliance audit (“IPCa”) which assesses a company’s compliance with Sarbanes Oxley, and the new Rule 34 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRSP).  The FRCP rules are used in every federal litigation.  These new rules lay out the requirements for delivery of a companies electronically stored information (ESI), as part of the discovery process of a lawsuit.  Companies need to be ready to deliver information in a lawsuit with an understanding of what is contained in that information, what is proprietary, what is a privileged, and is the information “relevant” to the lawsuit at hand.  The only way to do that is to have a process in place to become litigation ready. 

Our firm provides consultation and tools to help companies become litigation ready.

Our IPCa audit assists your Company to show audit compliance, be qualified for the safe harbor provisions of the FRCP rules and become litigation ready.