At Acumum, we understand that your intellectual property is one of your most valuable business assets. Our dedicated team of IP lawyers in Malta provides comprehensive legal support to help you create, protect, and capitalise on your innovations. From startups to multinational corporations, we offer tailored strategies to secure your trademarks, patents, and copyrights on a global scale.
Our managing partner, Geraldine Noel, was acknowledged by the United States Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) as being the first ever recipient of a grant for a trademark for virtual goods and services, during her employment with the world’s first virtual sports gaming world (an MMORPG).
No matter how small or big your IP portfolio, from once-off transactions to heavy-weight portfolios, Acumum’s IP services are always cost-effective and tailored to your business objectives.
What is Intellectual property (IP)?
IP includes trademarks, patents, image rights, design, database, moral rights and copyright
Intellectual Property (IP) is now an essential asset of many businesses, and contributes significantly to a business’s book value.
Through its creation, maintenance, and via strategic royalty routing to achieve effective tax reductions, a business can capitalise on its IP’s true asset potential.
In its many forms, patents, copyright, trademarks, domain names, industrial design, service marks, database rights or goodwill, IP is usually created and designed as part of an overall brand creation strategy, directing and protecting your business lines, products and services.
Whether you are trading in the virtual or real world, Acumum can help you achieve your IP’s true potential.
Why is Protecting Your Intellectual Property Crucial?
In today’s competitive market, safeguarding your unique ideas, brand identity, and creative works is essential for long-term success. Effective IP protection prevents competitors from using your innovations without permission, preserves your brand’s integrity, and creates significant revenue opportunities through licensing and sales. By establishing legal ownership of your assets, you build tangible value for your company, attract investors, and secure a strong market position.
Global perspective, global reach
Just like your business’s reach, we employ a global perspective to IP and can help you to develop a portfolio to protect your business across international markets.
Our Comprehensive Intellectual Property Services
- Creation, registration and maintenance of IP portfolios
- IP search and monitoring
- Licensing of R&D development, technology transfer and distribution
- Structuring of royalty routing
- Securitisation and monetisation
- Audits and forensic accounting
- Contract compliance
- Dispute resolution
- Prosecution and litigation
- Creation, registration and maintenance of IP portfolios
- IP search and monitoring
- Licensing of R&D development, technology transfer and distribution
- Structuring of royalty routing
- Securitisation and monetisation
- Audits and forensic accounting
- Contract compliance
- Dispute resolution
- Prosecution and litigation
Strategic IP Management and Audits
Maximising Revenue with IP Royalty Audits
The complexity of licence agreements can often lead to costly mistakes and lost royalty income. Our team conducts thorough IP royalty audits to ensure you are receiving the full financial benefit of your assets. We identify and rectify common errors such as understated royalty rates, unreported sales, overstated expense deductions, and accounting system errors. A proactive audit helps prevent financial loss, ensures contract compliance, and mitigates the risk of future disputes and litigation.
Transfer Pricing and International Operations
For businesses operating across multiple jurisdictions, managing IP royalties requires careful planning. Leveraging our expertise in multinational operations, Acumum advises on OECD transfer pricing policies to ensure your IP restructuring and royalty routing are both compliant and tax-efficient. We help you structure your IP in a way that aligns with international regulations while optimising your global tax position.
Why Choose Malta for Your IP Holding Structure?
Malta’s strategic location, favourable tax regime, and robust legal framework make it an ideal jurisdiction for holding and managing intellectual property. As a signatory to all major IP treaties and conventions, Malta offers international protection and legal certainty for your assets. Our team leverages this advantageous environment to create effective royalty routing structures that reduce tax burdens and enhance the value of your IP portfolio.
Malta is a signatory to key international agreements, including:
- Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and
- Artistic Works (1964)
- Paris Convention for the Protection of IP (1967)
- Universal Copyright Convention (1968)
- WIPO Agreement (1977)
- WTO TRIPS Agreement (1995)
- Patent Cooperation Treaty (2007)
- European Patent Convention (2007)
- Accession to the WCT & WPPT (2008)
- Accession to the Madrid Protocol (2009)
Whatever your budget and commercial objectives, Acumum can provide added value to your business’s assets and book value.
- Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and
- Artistic Works (1964)
- Paris Convention for the Protection of IP (1967)
- Universal Copyright Convention (1968)
- WIPO Agreement (1977)
- WTO TRIPS Agreement (1995)
- Patent Cooperation Treaty (2007)
- European Patent Convention (2007)
- Accession to the WCT & WPPT (2008)
- Accession to the Madrid Protocol (2009)
Whatever your budget and commercial objectives, Acumum can provide added value to your business’s assets and book value.
