Synergon is a Swedish

Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

 based consultant

Consultant

A consultant is a professional who provides professional or expert advice in a particular area such as management, accountancy, the environment, entertainment, technology, law , human resources, marketing, emergency management, food production, medicine, finance, life management, economics, public...

 network functioning as an IBO (Intellectual Property Business Organization). It focuses on stratergy and practical handling of IP

Intellectual property

Intellectual property is a term referring to a number of distinct types of creations of the mind for which a set of exclusive rights are recognized—and the corresponding fields of law...

 (intellectual property, such as patents, trade-marks etc) matters for smaller and medium-sized research based companies.

The main mission is to help creating optimal protection of commercially interesting knowledge from a business point of view. They believe patent

Patent

A patent is a form of intellectual property. It consists of a set of exclusive rights granted by a sovereign state to an inventor or their assignee for a limited period of time in exchange for the public disclosure of an invention....

issues are basically business questions and not only technical or legal matters. Optimum strategies can only be found if market, technical and IP issues are considered at the same time.

Cost for building and maintaining proper protection can be substantially reduced using the network of direct contacts with international agents.

All consultants have worked in different industries and have first hand practical experience how to create and implement a good IP-strategy.