Invention
This is the most specialised service that PIATRA currently offers. When you engage us for freelance invention services you are in direct contact with our most senior consultants on a one-to-one basis for the duration of the project. You will have access to their expertise directly, and exclusively - as required - for the duration of the project.
Rest assured that our senior consultants have an established track-record in solving emerging problems, inventing new technology and developing experimental methods. Our consultants all have demonstrated excellence in their fields and are selected for their technical prowess, communication and abilities to work within multidisciplinary teams. We are pleased to demonstrate our capabilities and "runs on the board" where permitted by existing NDAs.
Perhaps you are a senior engineering manager with an intractable but important problem that is interrupting a key business process. Perhaps your team has tried without luck to solve the issues at hand and requires an external expert to advise. Perhaps you have identified a key impediment to streamlining an existing technical process but lack the expertise to get started on a solution?
Why engage inventors?
This unique service is available for business clients who have an important business case that require solutions that don't currently exist. Hence the need to solve a problem from scratch, or remove a long-standing and resistant technical impediment. Sometimes the problem is too big or too novel to progress. Let us have a look, do some preliminary research and get back to you with potential solutions. We will then work with you to implement them.
Let us have a look at your problem and see if we can help. We are discrete, aware of the sensitivities around commercial secrecy of emerging tech, and ready to help if we can.
- New methodologies to solve existing problems
- Extend existing technology to new applications
- Novel discovery needs deeper understanding to apply for IP protection
- Arrange existing technical components into innovative solutions
You Should Know
Depends.
Usually the generated IP remains with the person who conceived it. Your use of the IP would then be governed by a fair-use license that allows you to use and sell commercial solutions.
Alternately, the generated IP could be created and released under an open-source license. At PIATRA, we typically prefer to use the MIT open source license since it allows for unrestricted commercial usage.
Finally, for a higher consulting rate, we can completely attribute all generated IP to you. We can also help you with the requirements to secure patent protection for it. Or IP can remain as commercial secret if that's a better match for your needs.
Though we don't have lawyers in-house, we can put you in touch with lawyers with a track-record in patent law. Furthermore, we can help you with all the technical details, use-cases and documentation required for the patent filing.
Sometimes the best protection for an idea is keeping it secret. Discretion is a core company value at PIATRA. We have Non-disclosure agreements ready to sign in order to keep your commercially sensitive details protected, from initial contact and project discussion.
We have Non-disclosure agreements ready to sign in order to keep your commercially sensitive details protected, from initial contact and project discussion.