Semi In-House Program

Semi In-House Counsel Package

Businesses looking to build and maintain significant intellectual property portfolios can now do so in a cost-controlled way.

Our Semi In-House Counsel service offers an amazing package for qualified businesses looking to get serious about intellectual property.

Qualified clients and businesses looking to maintain and expand intellectual property portfolios are always welcome to take advantage of our one-of-a-kind flat-fee package.

This package offers all the benefits of unrestricted access to a fully licensed law firm and registered patent and trademark agency at a fraction of the cost.

Cost savings can be measured directly by comparison against per-hour billing lawyers and patent / trademark agents.

Cost savings can also be measured directly in comparison to hiring full-time employees within a business.

As we combine the best of both worlds, this package is known as the semi in-house counsel package.

 

How does this package work?

We provide a vast array of unlimited access services at a yearly set flat fee.

This means means qualified businesses can pay a rate better than actually hiring in-house counsel, lawyers, patent agents, and trademark agents.

This also means that as a client, no more clock watching for your business.

Likewise your lawyer / patent agent / trademark agent will also no longer be watching the clock but instead focusing on producing quality work.

The idea behind in-house counsel packages is that clients can now reasonably control their legal and intellectual property costs, while having the benefit of external counsel.

 

Are there benefits?

There are both tangible as well as invisible / intangible benefits to this type of arrangement.

You can decided how exactly how much to benefit from such an in-house counsel arrangement by using as much or as little as you feel necessary.

Our in-house counsel service yields a number of bonuses including not having to deal with employee liabilities like:

hiring, firing, lay-offs, notice periods, tax withholdings, or employee benefits.

Our invoicing structure is tax-deductible, with tax-credit flow-through where applicable.

All of this is done while still offering all the benefits of external legal and intellectual property counsel.

Having external counsel means your business still benefits from solicitor-client confidentiality and patent agent confidentiality.

 

Who should use this package?

This type of service package is ideal for small-to-medium (SME) business enterprises looking to grow and expand without taking on excessive financial burden.

Growth and expansion in a business usually requires outside advisors such as lawyers and patent / trademark agents.

The use of external lawyers and agents is often necessary but quickly becomes expensive and burdensome.

Businesses feeling pressure to control budgets need an alternative, but don’t necessarily want the additional burden of full in house counsel – another employee liability.

 

How long does this package last?

In order to ensure value for all parties involved, the in house counsel package requires an initial one year commitment, with an option to cancel any time thereafter.

An initial one-year commitment allows Pnc IP Group to grow with your business, as well as establish a realistic pace for dealing with and processing intellectual property work.

In turn the initial commitment gives your business an opportunity to learn how best to place and maximize our services within your infrastructure and goals.

The package itself can run for as long as any client chooses, with one of our longest packages having run more than a decade, until that company wound up.

 

Track Record

We have an established track record of serving SMEs successfully under this semi in house counsel model.

The typical SME using this type of package has on average used our service typically for periods of ten or more years.

During that time those businesses not only saved thousands of dollars, but also enjoyed rapid and constant access to legal and intellectual property advice.

Unlike other legal and intellectual property service providers, this package also offers weekend and after-hours access.

 

PNC IP Group offers a full array of in house services in Canada.

Safeguard your innovations and inventions with the best in the business.

Contact Pnc IP Group today or visit our location to learn more about our services.

None of the content on this website constitutes legal advice or advice as a registered patent and trademark agent.

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To find out if your business qualifies, contact us today.