Metisology® underpins everything we do at Metis.
This is our approach to discovery. Discovery of your intellectual property assets and your business model.
We uncover how you leverage your IP to meet strategic business objectives. We discover how IP contributes to revenues and protects your market position. We reveal how your IP underpins the growth of your business.
We need the full picture to identify and assess the extent and quality of the IP. It ensures we are confidently delivering a robust and reliable IP service.
Metisology® extends into a wealth of documented Key Organizational Knowledge. We use detailed question tailored for each client and used on initial discovery call. We undertake industry and sector benchmarking and analysis. We use proprietary IP scores and scorecards and much more! These are our own critical IP assets and differentiator that provides competitive advantage. Metisology® is our trade secret and THE secret to our success.
10 Asset Areas Underpinning Business Competitive Advantage
 Brand & Reputation
		Brand & Reputation
	 Trade Secrets
		Trade Secrets
	 Key Organizational Knowledge
		Key Organizational Knowledge
	 Strategy & Market Intelligence
		Strategy & Market Intelligence
	 Critical Customer Relationships
		Critical Customer Relationships
	 Know-How & Key People
		Know-How & Key People
	 Formal Intellectual Property
		Formal Intellectual Property
	 R&D Innovation
		R&D Innovation
	 Critical Business Processes
		Critical Business Processes
	 Critical Partners & Suppliers
		Critical Partners & Suppliers
	We identify all the company’s IP assets and assess how well they are protected and managed.
We map each IP asset to products, services, revenues and forecasts to determine which IP assets underpin the material cash flows of the business.
We appraise the IP assets that are both valuable and critical to the scalability and growth of the business – these assets create a competitive moat around the business and protect future cash flows.




