Your Patents Are More Than Protection.

Transform Your IP Into A Powerful Growth Engine.

Get your IP Growth Blueprint, a personalized roadmap to uncover hidden value, strengthen your market position, and show investors you’re ready for what’s next.

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Your Patents Are Your Most Overlooked Assets.

Our process helps you better capture, protect, and monetize your IP portfolio.

Our fractional retainer model drives real ROI without the overhead.

Assess

Start with a Strategic Portfolio Assessment.
  • Comprehensive review of patents, trademarks, and trade secrets
  • Risk and litigation exposure analysis
  • Actionable IP Growth Blueprint delivers next steps toward valuation & monetization.

Align

Connect IP to business goals.
  • Roadmaps for M&A, fundraising, or product launches
  • Portfolio optimization — cut waste, focus on value
  • Training and innovation committee support to capture R&D more effectively

Activate.

Transform IP into a growth engine.
  • Licensing, partnerships, or commercialization strategies
  • Monetize underused assets or strengthen defenses against competitors
  • Ongoing monitoring, enforcement, and global protection

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Get Your IP Growth Blueprint.

Your company could be sitting on untapped value. Our Strategic Portfolio Assessment delivers an actionable roadmap showing your IP portfolio’s strengths, risks, and growth opportunities.

If you choose to continue with us, the assessment fee is fully credited toward your first month’s retainer.

Spots are limited each month to assure quality and attention.

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Michael Dilworth: Founder, Managing Partner, and IP Attorney

“Most companies treat patents as a cost of doing business. That’s a mistake.”

I’ve spent decades helping executives, GCs, and investors learn how to transform IP from a balance-sheet expense into a growth engine.

My team and I work with companies like yours to uncover hidden value, strengthen your market position, and create real monetized value from your IP portfolio.

– Michael Dilworth
Founder & Managing Partner
Dilworth IP

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IP CONSULTING SERVICES

An IP Partner In Your Corner. Every Day.

We don’t just show up for deals or disputes. We embed into your business, monitoring your IP landscape, guiding R&D, and positioning your portfolio so you’re always ready for the moments that matter.

Your IP should raise valuations, not red flags. We position your portfolio to strengthen due diligence, highlight hidden value, and give you leverage at the negotiating table.

Investors back companies with defensible assets and growth potential. We package your portfolio into a compelling story that inspires confidence and drives capital.

The best defense starts long before a dispute. We monitor risks, develop response strategies, and protect the portfolio that underpins your business.

Competitors and copycats never rest, and neither do we. We help you defend your brand and protect your market position with proactive monitoring and targeted enforcement recommendations.

Great ideas deserve efficient workflows and strong support. We help you capture innovation, train R&D teams, and align invention pipelines so no opportunity slips through the cracks.

Entering a new market is high risk, high reward. We clear the path with competitive analysis, freedom-to-operate checks, and global filing strategies that protect launches and unlock revenue.

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“We’ve enjoyed a longstanding relationship with Dilworth IP. They are responsive, understand our business, and provide technology law support in addition to quality patent work. Dilworth IP consistently delivers.”

George Macdonald, CIPC

Hubbell

WHY WORK WITH DILWORTH IP CONSULTING

The Future of IP is AI + Human Expertise.

We leverage cutting-edge AI technology and decades of experience to make your IP work harder for your business.

With Dilworth IP, you work directly with a senior attorney who has guided companies through M&A, fundraising, and growth. No layers of associates or inflated billing.

Automation can handle the paperwork. What it can’t do is connect your IP to strategy, judgment, and growth. That’s where we come in.

Not only will we file and maintain your patents, we make sure those filings support your business goals. With an IP-aligned strategy, you’ll maximize valuation, uncover revenue opportunities, and avoid wasted spend.

Hiring a full-time IP executive isn’t feasible for most companies. Our fractional model gives you senior-level guidance when you need it, without the overhead.

We don’t measure success in billable hours. We measure it in stronger valuations, cleaner due diligence processes, better investor narratives, and real monetization opportunities.

We complement your current counsel, not compete with them. We provide strategic direction and specialized execution, and we focus on alignment, clarity, and efficiency.

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We Only Take a Few New Assessments Each Month.

Reserve your Strategic Portfolio Assessment, and receive a high-level IP Growth Blueprint tailored to your company. If you continue with us on a retainer, your assessment fee is fully credited toward your first month.

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Boutique Firm Attention. Big Firm Results.

Personalized attention from senior attorneys with decades of experience across industries.

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    The Power of In-House Counsel for a Fraction of the Cost.

    • “Dilworth IP gave us better visibility of our scope of patents and identified important gaps. They understand commercial, competitive, and technical elements of IP quickly. A critical asset to our company.”
      — George Whelen III, President + CEO
      Whelen Engineering
    • “Michael and his hand-picked team did an exceptional job both protecting and advancing the company’s significant IP portfolio. They used their knowledge to deliver strategic business results.”
      — Ed Wynn, GC
      Stepan Company
    • “Dilworth IP has provided all aspects of our global legal IP needs, from patent filing and maintenance, defense, and IP evaluation and support through multiple M&A transactions. We’ve worked closely with them in defining our overall IP strategy.”
      — Joe Salsbury, CFO
      Galata Chemicals

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