How we helped Pulpex complete Series D funding

IP and its protection are central to the strategy of packaging technology company, Pulpex Limited. 

We advise Pulpex's senior leadership team on IP strategy, protection and risks and IP-related agreements, providing patent attorney secondees as a pseudo in-house IP function, and undertaking the work required to protect the company’s technology using patents, trade secrets and registered designs.

Our secondees keep up to date with Pulpex's technical and commercial developments and regularly check in with their scientists and engineers and inspect machinery to keep track of evolving processes. Our team readily understand how Pulpex's innovations work, spot developments that are significant from a technical and/or commercial point of view and are well versed in asking the right questions to obtain the information needed to protect the IP. Pulpex’s portfolio now includes hundreds of patent rights, each drafted and prosecuted by EIP, spanning jurisdictions across six continents.

During a Series D investment round, we helped Pulpex answer numerous far-reaching questions on their IP in a due diligence exercise.  This included detailed examination of the scope and validity of several of their patent applications and a review of their freedom to operate in view of third-party IP rights.  Pulpex were able to demonstrate that their IP position was solid, which helped them secure £62 million in funding to finance the construction of their first commercial-scale manufacturing facility and create the UK's first fibre bottle supply chain.

The potential far reaching impact of Pulpex’s technology, and the way we help them protect it to ensure they are a viable business, has led to them being nominated twice for an Earthshot prize: first by CIPA and then by the competition organisers themselves.