Award Terms & Flow-Down Review
Awardees who have the money and now need to know what the award terms actually oblige them and their subcontractors to do.
Commercialization Readiness Review
Technologies emerging from federally-funded R&D, especially under SBIR/STTR, that need a focused readiness review before commercial engagement.
$0.00
Engagement type: Custom Quote
Attorney fee: Custom quote
USPTO / USCO / WIPO fees billed separately at cost.
Best for
Technologies emerging from federally-funded R&D, especially under SBIR/STTR, that need a focused readiness review before commercial engagement.
What’s included
Readiness review covering IP cleanliness, data rights, and key contractual gaps.
What’s NOT included
- Government, third-party, foreign-associate, translation, courier, and vendor fees.
- Continued prosecution, additional office actions, or post-allowance work beyond what is expressly itemized.
- Litigation, contested proceedings (IPR/PGR/PTAB, oppositions, cancellations), or appeal work.
- Work on additional applications, jurisdictions, classes, or marks not listed in the engagement letter.
- Representation before any agency or court unless expressly stated in the engagement letter.
Client responsibilities
- Provide complete, accurate, and timely technical / business disclosures.
- Review and approve drafts and filings before submission.
- Pay government and third-party fees in advance of any filing deadline.
- Confirm in writing that no classified information will be shared outside cleared channels.
Assumptions
- Standard complexity for the service category.
- One primary applicant or business entity; one primary jurisdiction unless otherwise stated.
- One round of substantive client revisions included.
- No material adverse facts (e.g., prior public disclosure, intervening prior art) discovered after engagement.
- Custom-scoped; engagement letter sets deliverables and milestones.
Scope-change triggers
- Material change in scope, claims, embodiments, classes, marks, or jurisdictions.
- Adversarial action by a third party (opposition, cancellation, declaratory action).
- Expedited / emergency turnaround required to meet a statutory or self-imposed deadline.
- After-discovered prior art, prior use, or undisclosed prior filings.
- Movement from advisory to representation before an agency or court.
Deliverables
Per engagement letter.
Typical timing
Set in writing in the engagement letter.
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