Valuable IP,
forwarded onward.
Patents, codebases and platforms outlive the plans they were built for. When a company moves on, ForwardIP routes that IP to international buyers who will build on what it started.
Technology rarely loses its value because the company moved on. A patent, a codebase, a platform keeps its worth long after it stops being someone’s focus.
Most of it never reaches a second owner. Not because no one wants it, but because there is no route from the company that set it aside to the buyer who would build on it. We are that route, across the full range: from a startup selling IP it has outgrown, to assets held inside a bankruptcy.
Four kinds of stranded value.
We work with intellectual property that is no longer being developed, for reasons that have nothing to do with its quality.
Patents & registered IP
Granted and pending patents, design rights and trademarks, including multi-jurisdiction filings that retain their priority dates.
Source code & codebases
Working software, proprietary algorithms and repositories built over years, with the documentation a new owner needs to run them.
Product development
CAD and production files, technical drawings, prototypes and tooling: the engineering record that turns an idea into a product.
Digital platforms
Web platforms, mobile apps, e-commerce and the user bases that came with them, ready to continue or be folded into a buyer’s line.
From stranded to sold.
A defined sequence across legal, technical and commercial work, run by us from first audit to cross-border close.
Assess
A legal and technical audit to confirm what actually transfers: clean title, and a clear-eyed view of the asset’s real strengths and gaps.
Clear
We resolve ownership questions, third-party licences and encumbrances, and assemble a structured data room buyers can trust.
Position
We translate code and patents into a commercial case: a teaser, a technical brief and the materials a CTO and a board need to act.
Route
Direct outreach to the acquirers most likely to want the technology, reaching decision-makers in Germany, the UK, the US and beyond.
Close
We run the negotiation and complete the transfer, securing the clean handover of code, rights, domains and accounts to the new owner.
We work on a success fee only. No retainer, no upfront cost. The risk and the work sit with us. We are paid when the asset sells, and not before.
Who we work with
- → Founders refocusing, or moving on from a product they built
- → Companies and investors holding IP they no longer develop
- → Restructuring advisors realising non-core assets
- → Bankruptcy administrators holding IP within an estate