How we helped a company license their patents to a Fortune 500 at a point they wanted to give up?
We all know the power a strong patent portfolio holds. However, when it comes to monetizing it, it’s not always a walk in the park. A list of target companies needs to be generated, infringement needs to be identified, that too in jurisdictions which would improve the chances of an agreement taking place and yield […]
Let’s discuss some key manners in which companies can manage and monetize their patents to full potential
Pre-script: This thought piece is written keeping in mind the board members and key decision-makers that aren’t from the IP department. If you are an in-house patent counsel, patent attorney, or patent broker, I know that you breathe these strategies and know them to the core, and these are not new to you. However, your C […]
How we performed a feasibility study in Gaming industry to find Infringement
Results found. No results found – Searches, in my opinion, have more to it than the outcome. As a searcher, of course, there are strategies and tactics involved to get to the result (or the lack of it), but there’s much more to it. It also involves the to and fro with the client, picking […]
“I think about client’s objective rather than what he is asking us to do”, says Anoop
While preparing a methodology for the projects, especially for a claim amendment study, deciding what to include and what not can take an extra bit of thinking. The client might have made his requirements clear, but during the search, you might find a bit of extra information that could help the client. But including this […]
A Framework to Extract ROI from Your Patent Portfolio
Companies should invest their time and resources into developing a diverse patent portfolio as it can act as a vast resource of revenue as well as provide a competitive advantage. In fact, every company must have a patent portfolio as part of its business strategy. You must have heard some variation of this advice from […]
How We Designed a Series of Tests to Prove Patent Infringement Involving Text-to-Speech Products Made By Nuance and IBM
Around 2017, we heard from an inventor who’d grown dissatisfied with the IP research firm he’d been working with. He owned a patent dating to 2005 that had to do with the automated conversion of written text into audible speech. Specifically, the processes described in the patent would allow text-to-speech conversion that approximated the sound of […]
How we used Electrical Signal Analysis to Reverse Engineer the various processes happening inside a smartphone?
Recently, one of our client contacted us with a project which required a Reverse Engineering based infringement analysis of cutting edge tech. This article discusses how we went about the RE and helped monetize the patent portfolio. A few months ago, we were contacted by Bob*, VP of IP Monetization at a Fortune 500 organization. […]
Patent infringement on a Fleet of Hybrid Vehicles
A few years ago, as part of an ongoing relationship with a major U.S. defense contractor, we were asked to run a monetization analysis on a large patent portfolio, with an eye toward identifying patents likely to produce revenue. The contractor has a huge, active R&D department, and at the time, their portfolio contained somewhere […]
How we Performed Reverse engineering of an OLED Display to Confirm Infringement?
Did you know that an OLED is 200 times thinner than a strand of a human hair? The thickness of a strand of human hair is approximately 30 to 100 micrometers while that of an OLED is 100 to 500 nanometers. Pretty thin, eh? Well, the story I am about to share with you today […]
How a Patent Monetization Analysis Helped a Major Asian Telecom Company Prepare to Defend Patent Infringement Lawsuits in the U.S.
In 2017, we heard from an executive who was heading up a team that specialized in mobile and augmented reality-related technology at a large Asian telecom company. She had a troublesome problem having to do with patent monetization—the process of generating revenue from patents—which she couldn’t realistically solve herself. The researchers on her team were highly […]
Smart Patent Monetization Strategies For Small And Medium-Sized Enterprises
Since September 2012 the USPTO has been invalidating a majority of the patents for which proceedings have been initiated under the inter parties review (“IPR”) process. Statistics on IPR proceedings have been available since its inception. The current numbers are far from comforting to patent owners. Given these statistics, is there still a way to […]
4 clever patent monetization strategies for saving thousands on consultancy
Clever is the one who has mastered the art of saving money, for that money could be spent on million other things. Saving money is an art, of which a few are a pro while many fail at it. A bit of tweak here and there and an average person could save a dozen bucks […]
Getting a Claim chart? Beware of coincidental mapping!
Claim charts play a crucial role in litigation. The strength of mapping can become a deciding factor that could turn the balance of the game in favor of either party. However, it ought to be noted that claim charting is a manual process, which leaves the chances of human errors and resultantly, weak links. Some […]
How we used a continuation application to increase the monetary value of a patent?
Have you ever found yourself in a situation where a product was overlapping with most of the claim elements of your patent, but 1-2 claim elements were not available in the product, hence, a complete overlap wasn’t possible? OR you noticed a new feature launched by Google that appears to be very similar to your […]
5 Ways Patents Helps Make Smart Investment Decisions
Investment decisions are not made in a vacuum, they have a context. The main question is – What is that context which you should set, as an investor or a VC, before making an investment decision? For a long time, investors have followed the practice to include a company’s stock, brand reputation, and its market […]
Three scenarios when your standard essential patents are not valuable
The value of a patent is normally measured by the market/revenue of the products covered by the patent. Larger the market of the product, higher is the value of the patent covering it. But by this logic, each standard-essential patent should be worth a lot, as it covers all the products which are following that […]
