Before growth or investment
Understand the strengths, gaps and dependencies behind the value you want to build.
HMS DELSOL - Human-centric Management and Strategy
Your distinction.
Strategically protected.
Human-centric governance for the assets behind your advantage: intellectual property, brands, data, know-how, culture and relationships.
Explore our servicesHMS DELSOL / Our purpose
Protection with
a business purpose.
The value of an asset depends on what it makes possible for your business.
HMS DELSOL connects intellectual property and intangible-asset decisions with growth, competitive position and continuity. From a single critical question to ongoing IP leadership, we help you protect what matters and give it a clear commercial direction.
Working with CEOs, boards, investors and existing legal, IP and R&D teams, we connect people, protection and business priorities. The ambition is a stronger position in development, investment, partnerships and negotiation.
Before a critical commitment
Challenge your IP position, strategic assumptions and competitive resilience while options remain open.
As the business evolves
Keep protection, confidential knowledge and portfolio priorities connected to the organisation’s ambitions.
HMS DELSOL / Signature expertise
IP leadership.
Distinctive by design.
Work directly with Dr. Benjamin DELSOL to connect executive decisions, intellectual property and innovation with your business ambitions.
Executive leadership
Fractional CIPO
A Chief Intellectual Property Officer, aligned with your ambitions.
Bring senior IP leadership into your organisation, with a mandate shaped around your needs. Work directly with Dr. Benjamin DELSOL to connect your IP portfolio, legal and IP teams, innovation leaders and external advisers with the decisions that matter to your business.
- An executive partner for growth, investment and partnerships
- Clear priorities for protection and portfolio investment
- Continuity between leadership decisions and IP action
Business direction
IP Strategy
Give your intellectual property a clear business purpose.
Connect protection, investment and commercial priorities with the position you want to build. Focus your intellectual property on what supports differentiation, strengthens negotiations and creates opportunities for growth.
- IP priorities aligned with your business ambitions
- Investment focused on commercially significant assets
- A stronger position in partnerships and market development
International recognitionDr. Benjamin DELSOL — twice recognised in IAM Strategy 300: The World’s Leading IP Strategists .
Discuss your IP strategyCompetitive differentiation
IP Design
Shape innovation into an advantage worth owning.
Identify promising spaces in the competitive landscape and give innovation a clearer commercial direction. Bring market opportunity, technical possibility and potential IP protection together to shape distinctive innovations and a position competitors cannot easily replicate.
- Innovation focused on valuable opportunities for differentiation
- Protection considered while concepts can still evolve
- A stronger connection between R&D, IP and commercial value
DELSOL Boardroom
Bring the executive
conversation into focus.
Choose your type of organisation and explore one of three executive scenarios. Bring growth, capital, rights, expertise and stakeholder priorities into the same strategic conversation.
Enter the BoardroomSix audiences · Three scenarios for each · No registration
HMS DELSOL / Strategic challenge & resilience
Challenge the position.
Strengthen the decision.
Three HMS DELSOL services for leaders and counsel who want to expose blind spots before a critical commitment.
Before a filing, hearing, negotiation or dispute
Synthetic IP Tribunal
Meet the strongest challenge before it reaches you.
Put your IP position under informed scrutiny while there is still time to strengthen it.
- A clearer view of vulnerable arguments and missing evidence
- Counter-arguments and fallback positions to consider with counsel
- Focused priorities for strengthening your preparation
Before a strategic commitment
Strategic War Game
See how your next move could change the game.
A compelling strategy must hold up to the decisions others make. Explore how competitors, customers, partners, investors and regulators might respond before you commit resources.
- Strategic options compared against plausible external reactions
- Decision triggers and contingency responses
- Priorities for action that preserve strategic flexibility
Before relying on your competitive advantage
Intangible Red Team / Intangible PenTest
How difficult is your advantage to replicate?
Look beyond the assets you own to the resilience they provide. Within an agreed lawful scope, examine how a sophisticated competitor could replicate, work around or erode the value of your IP, know-how, data, software and critical relationships. Give management and investors a clearer view of where the business needs reinforcement.
- Competitive vulnerabilities ranked by severity
- Plausible replication pathways and critical dependencies
- A prioritised plan to strengthen resilience and assess progress
HMS DELSOL / Further services & offers
Further expertise.
For every defining moment.
Leadership & commercial direction
IP Audit
See the strengths, gaps and priorities in your intellectual property before your next defining decision.
IP Subscription
Keep your IP decisions and portfolio aligned as your organisation and priorities evolve.
Expert Advisory
Bring a focused IP decision, negotiation or strategic question to an experienced adviser.
Protection & competitive position
Trade Secret Protocol
Preserve the confidential know-how that gives you an edge in growth, partnerships and negotiation.
Patentability Assessment
Make an informed decision about patent protection and the technical features that could support it.
Patent Application Drafting
Build a patent application around the protection, development and value-creation ambitions of your business.
Freedom to Operate — Regular
Understand relevant third-party patent risks before launch, partnership or commercial expansion.
Freedom to Operate — Flash
Get focused insight into a limited set of potentially sensitive patents when a decision cannot wait.
Patent Opposition, Invalidation & Revocation
Challenge patents that may stand in the way of your business and strengthen your position for disputes and negotiations.
Standby Invalidation File
Prepare to challenge a potentially blocking patent, so your business and counsel have a stronger position when the timing matters.
Transactions & knowledge continuity
IPTWIN
Keep your IP knowledge coherent and accessible, so information requests and continuity are easier to manage.
IP Dominion — Investor Readiness
Make the strength of your intangible assets and differentiation clearer in conversations with investors.
Intangible Asset Due Diligence
Understand the strengths and vulnerabilities behind a partnership, acquisition or investment.
Connected expertise
Bring the right
strengths together.
A conversation can change the trajectory.
What could your
knowledge become?
Tell us what you want to build, protect or unlock. Let’s explore what DELSOL Group can make possible for your organisation.
contact@delsol-group.orgFounder-led. International in outlook. Based in Switzerland.