Jonathan Lane

“Patents can be value-adding assets or costly irrelevances – it depends how they are managed. Investment in a patent management service can be one of the easiest and most efficient ways of adding near term and long term value.”


• Board Member of several early stage biotech companies
• An entrepreneur with his own niche biotech products
• Over past 10 years, has built valuable patent portfolios offering distinct advantages (both R&D and commercial arenas)

Expertise in:

• Development and implementation of an IP strategy aligned with corporate goals
• Managing the IP interface between company staff, clients and patent attorneys to:
• Ensure R&D understand the internal and external patent constraints
• Clearly identify for staff and clients how commercial advantages are protected by patents
• Direct patent attorneys to draft and prosecute commercially relevant patents
• Carrying out Due Diligence, and preparation for Due Diligence
• Licensing of IP
• Setting up systems to help with administration of the patent portfolio