Altum Legal

If intellectual property isn’t structured and managed deliberately, you risk losing exclusivity, weakening your position with investors, or giving away rights in routine contracts. Altum helps you protect, manage, and leverage your IP so it supports your business model, strengthens deals, and stands up in diligence.

Founders are often unsure what is actually protectable, how to prioritize between patents, trade secrets, and trademarks, or how day-to-day contracts affect ownership. NDAs, contractor agreements, open-source use, university licenses, and joint development deals can quietly transfer rights, create shared ownership, or limit future products and markets.

Altum provides clear, specialized IP counseling. We help you map what you have, decide how it should be protected, and ensure your contracts, licenses, and collaborations reflect an IP strategy that matches how you plan to build and monetize your product.

“Altum helped us turn a fuzzy sense of ‘we have IP’ into a concrete strategy. Our assignments, licenses, and commercial contracts now match how our product and data actually create value, and diligence conversations are much simpler.”

What We Do:

IP counseling to identify and prioritize key assets: code, models, datasets, biological materials, designs, content, and know-how.
Structuring of ownership through assignments, contractor and advisor agreements, university or lab licenses, and robust confidentiality and invention provisions.
High-level strategy on patents, trade secrets, trademarks, and copyrights, including coordination with prosecution counsel on filings and portfolio management.
Licensing strategy and agreement support, including field-of-use, territory, exclusivity, and sublicensing terms that align with your roadmap and exit paths.
Review and negotiation of commercial, collaboration, and data or model-sharing agreements to avoid unintended IP grants and preserve future flexibility.
Guidance on open-source use and licensing in software and AI products, including how licenses interact with your proprietary IP and distribution model.
Support for IP aspects of financings and M&A, including disclosure schedules, responses to investor or buyer IP diligence, and remediation plans.
Assessment of infringement and dispute posture, and coordination with specialist IP litigators when enforcement or defensive action is needed, so your overall IP strategy stays coherent.

Benefits:

You gain a clear, organized view of your key IP assets and how they are protected.
Ownership is tied up cleanly in the company, not scattered across founders, contractors, labs, or vendors.
Customer, vendor, and partnership contracts stop quietly eroding your IP position or boxing in your roadmap.
Licensing and collaboration agreements are structured to preserve future flexibility and support revenue, partnerships, and exits.
Investors and acquirers see a deliberate IP strategy and coherent story, not a patchwork of ad hoc decisions or gaps.

Turn your IP into a moat and a deal asset.

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