Design Electronic Products. How to Practically own the IP of the Products you have been selling?

Owning IP is one thing but enforcing its right is another. Let’s talk about both owning it and enforcing it.

First things first. Do you own your IP and can you prove it before starting manufacturing to ensure nothing goes wrong?

If you can’t prove it without any doubt, the result is simple, you do not own it, if you can’t manufacture it, same thing, you do not own it.

If you can’t just walk into a manufacturer’s facilities with your DMP, then, you probably do not own the totality of the IP, or maybe nothing at all.

Do you you have all your IP on paper and signed protection before starting anything? Again, if the answer is no, you need us to Design a Fresh DMP for your Product. It is possible.

Second thing is about the country where manufacture will take place.

If that country does not have bilateral agreements to enforce intellectual property contracts, you will lose your IP from the moment you transfer any critical information to a manufacturing operation in that country. You will have no practical recourse against that manufacturer if they duplicate or multiply the products under different packaging, boxes, look or versions. Probably. nothing will practically work to protect future sales from your competitors either, when they are getting parallel supplies from that manufacturer.

For example, a very large companies from Holland have experience with this. Just read the press about it. They nearly lost their main business by subcontract key element of their manufacturing in Taiwan.

Your first step must be about choosing the country of manufacture where contracts are enforceable. That is the first step to limit future problems.

The second Step is to ensure the manufacturer you select, on top of getting along very well, will sign and register these agreements legally (for example have them witnessed and ratified in court).

The third Step is to add in these contract and agreement which court will be selected and agreed in case of issues to be solved. These 3 things alone will limit having problem before starting.

The fourth Step is to agree on the standards of manufacturing which will be utilized and enforced.

The fifth Step is to agree on penalties if something goes wrong, and list them in detail (late deliveries, bad quality, not manufactured to standards, etc…)®

Then only you start speaking about the DMP.

Part of our service in designing your DMP, is to register all IP properly to be legally yours globally (or at the least in the signatory countries of the treaties)

Toptronic® Laboratories specialize in designing and upgrading Products with the goal of producing DMPs for Global manufacturing.

If you do not own your IP yet and if you want to save many months to just find out what and how to go about it, book a paid consultation fast. We can help you.