The Ultimate Patent Due Diligence Checklist for Prioritization
If you are a Patent counsel, or in any way responsible for the patent acquisitions of your company, you might be receiving multiple requests from inventors or companies to purchase/license their portfolio. Patent due diligence, resultantly, becomes a core part of your job. Having said that, we’d agree that analyzing each and every portfolio can […]
10 High Value Artificial Intelligence Patents you should know about
In his book The Road to Wigan Pier, Orwell describes how the poor miners in the 1930s who couldn’t afford to buy coal from the market painfully scavenged bits and pieces of it from the slag-heap mountains near the mines. The situation can be fairly compared today with scavenging for valuable patents, but with an […]
5 things to check before you buy a patent
Imagine you decide to invest a lot of money – possibly millions – in a patent since it is being infringed by a product with high market value. Of course, the patent has high value in this case. But have you ever thought – What if this technology becomes obsolete in the coming 2 years, […]
How Patent Due diligence can help you in making Acquisitions?
What happens when a company has a strong patent portfolio but is not able to convert the IP assets into financial ones? Add to it, the rising operational costs that are affecting the financial health of the company. Now picture this – the aforesaid company is your key competitor and is going to file for […]
How not to be a loser in the game of M&A of patent assets?
When it comes to mergers and acquisitions, the incoming IP from the entity being acquired (or merged with) is vital. The concerned authority, in most cases a patent counsel, has to assess the patent portfolio to find its strategic value to the company’s business. Assessing the strategic importance of an incoming patent portfolio has to […]
Patent Acquisition Strategies – Where to find Ideal Patents to Mitigate risks during Foreign Expansion?
Lack of IP poses a challenge of patent infringement not only within the country but also when companies plan to go global – They are welcomed with lawsuits. At such a time, patent acquisition of foreign assignees helps support the goal of having global business operations. Decision-makers, however, face the dilemma of what to do […]
Patent Acquisition Strategy: Why you should focus on Mortgaged Patents?
A smart patent acquisition strategy helps a company maintain its competitive edge and to avoid litigation – pending or imminent. Any company looking for potential targets for acquisition faces two biggest problems: Whether the patent in question is really good? Whether the patent owner would be willing to sell the patent? Is there a one-stop […]
