Companies that stumble in IP diligence usually do not have a weak portfolio. They have a disorganized one. A missing assignment, an undisclosed license, a prosecution history that lives only in outside counsel's portal: all of it is fixable, but only if you find it before the investor or acquirer does. This guide reframes readiness around the two things a process evaluates. Hygiene (chain of title, prosecution, encumbrances, disputes) is pass/fail and can only hurt you; it determines whether the deal happens at all. Your narrative (what the portfolio protects and what it lets you exclude competitors from) determines what the deal is worth. Neither can be built under deadline. Most companies get only about a quarter's notice, so by the time the term sheet arrives, the work that matters most is already done.
Inside the guide you'll learn:
Read the guide to understand how to pass the audit and own the narrative, so the story told in the room is yours, and the only thing left to do under deadline is answer quickly.