The starting engagement

The IP Position Audit.

One written quote, fixed before you start. Three weeks. Every asset your business owns, uses, and is exposed on — on a single page, with a prioritised fix list. This is how most engagements with Platinova begin, because everything else depends on knowing where you stand.

What you get

  • A one-page IP schedule — what you own, what is pending, what you use under licence, what is unprotected. The document investors and acquirers ask for.
  • An exposure list — where the business is using rights it cannot evidence, and which gaps are actually dangerous versus which can wait.
  • A prioritised fix list — what to file, what to paper, what to stop doing, in order of risk-per-rupee.
  • A working session to walk the findings — not a PDF that arrives in silence.

How it runs

  • 01You share what exists — registrations, agreements, brand assets. No preparation beyond gathering.
  • 02We verify against official registers and review the paperwork — what you believe you own versus what the records say.
  • 03You receive the schedule, the exposure list, and the fix list — then we walk through it together.
Fee — scoped to your business, quoted in writing before you commit. No rate card, no hourly meter: the number you agree to is the number you pay.

Is this for you?

  • You are raising funds and investors are asking what you own.
  • Someone is copying you and you do not know what you can enforce.
  • You have registrations, agreements and brand assets scattered across years and nobody holds the full picture.
  • You are about to license, franchise or sell — and the diligence will find the gaps if you do not find them first.
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Before you ask

Questions we hear every time.

What does the IP Position Audit actually cover? +

Three lenses: what your business owns (registrations, applications, unregistered brand assets), what it uses that belongs to others (licences, fonts, stock, software), and where it is exposed (gaps, unpapered ownership, missed renewals). The output is a one-page IP schedule, an exposure list, and a prioritised fix list.

How long does it take and what do I need to prepare? +

The audit is scoped to roughly three weeks. You gather what exists — registration numbers, agreements with founders and freelancers, brand assets — and share them. No analysis or preparation is expected on your side; verifying against official registers is our job.

Is the fee really fixed? +

There is no rate card — the fee is scoped to your business, because a two-brand shop and a forty-SKU manufacturer are not the same audit. What is fixed: once quoted, in writing, that number does not move. If verification uncovers something that genuinely changes the scope, you hear about it before any additional work happens.

What happens after the audit? +

You walk the findings with the practitioner in a working session. Some businesses stop there — the schedule and fix list are yours either way. Others continue into filings, portfolio strategy or renewals management; every next step is priced as its own fixed-scope engagement, so you decide rung by rung.

Is this legal advice? +

The audit is a professional review of your IP position and produces documents you can act on. Anything that requires formal legal opinion or representation is flagged as such in the findings, so you know exactly which items need a lawyer and which need paperwork.

We already have a lawyer / CA. Why this? +

Most general counsel and accountants track what was filed, not what was missed. The audit exists to surface the gaps between what you believe you own, what the registers say, and what your agreements actually transfer — a one-time inventory that makes everyone else's job easier.

What the audit is not