Doesn’t it make more sense to establish a regular intellectual property outsource for your firm?

• What do you do when one of your clients calls with an intellectual property question?

• Doesn’t it make more sense to establish a regular intellectual property outsource for your firm?

• So where do you find an intellectual property outsource that’s truly accountable to your firm?

• What sort of practitioner should you be looking for in an intellectual property outsource?

• Which intellectual property credentials are most important to your clients?

• How do you arrange for the firm of Thomas J. Germinario to become your firm’s intellectual property outsource?

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Instead of a series of blind IP referrals, wouldn’t it be better to have an experienced practitioner “on call” to serve your clients’ IP needs? Ideally, such a practitioner would keep you “in the loop”, reporting back to you on the progress of the IP matter and conferring with you on issues that may have repercussions on other legal matters your firm is handling for the client. Ideally, such a practitioner would be working for you as well as for your client, so that the quality of his IP services reflects favorably on your firm and reinforces your firm’s bond with the client. Obviously, a referral outsource to a large firm with an IP practice doesn’t fit the bill here, because the large firm mentality will inevitably come to envision your client becoming their client. And, as the hierarchy of the large firm takes control of the matter, you will be relegated to the back seat, like it or not.