Patent Licensing Insights: These 2 Cloud Computing Patents should be on your acquisition list
BOS Insights is a section featuring insights/trends from our in-house tool BOS, which can help you in designing and picking appropriate patent monetization and acquisition strategies. Short for Business Opportunity for Sales, the BOS tool: Can help find prospects that would be willing to in-license or purchase your patents; Make your monetization campaign plain sailing; […]
Patent Licensing Insights: Maximizing Return on Toyota’s IP Licensing Program
BOS Insights is a section featuring insights/trends from our in-house tool BOS, which can help anybody in designing and picking appropriate patent monetization and acquisition strategies. Short for Business Opportunity for Sales (not a great name but we love the abbreviation), the BOS tool: Can help find prospects that would be willing to in-license or purchase […]
How did we Prove Patent Infringement when no Information was available?
After hearing the word patent infringement, the first thing that comes to most analysts’ minds is finding product literature and mapping it with the patent. What comes to our mind, on the other hand, is finding the technology and mapping it. This change in approach has helped us prove infringement which would not have been […]
FRAND Terms for 5G and Automotive Industry needs an update. Here’s why
Recently, it made to the headlines that Daimler had lodged a complaint with the European Commission against Nokia as Nokia refused to license mobile components and insists on indirect licensing of the entire vehicle. This reminded me of another case, where Broadcom filed a billion-dollar lawsuit against Volkswagen for infringement of their patents related to […]
Patent Licensing Insights: Blackberry’s portfolio can pose a litigation threat to approx 2000+ companies
If you’re a patent professional who likes to keep track of ongoing patent licensing campaigns, Blackberry might be on the top of your list. The Waterloo, Ontario based company has sued social media and search giants like Facebook, Twitter, Snap, and Google for infringing its patents. The aim of the campaign isn’t to protect BlackBerry […]
Are All of your standard essential patents declared to ETSI?
Recently, we noticed that many companies, especially with big patent portfolios, may not be aware that some of the patents in their portfolio are getting delayed in being officially listed as Standard Essential. As standard-essential patents are worth a good amount of money, delaying or missing to declare these patents to ETSI might result in […]
How to find patents from your portfolio for licensing using Office Action Data?
Patents with high licensing potential, also known as star patents, are highly sought by almost every in-house IP sales team and patent brokerage teams. However, finding the top 50 star patents from a portfolio of 10k+ patents is quite a challenge, and it has been bothering both in-house licensing teams and patent brokerages for a long time. Fret not […]
The Secret For Maximizing Return On Investment While Monetizing Patents
Today was the most important day in Bob’s life. Bob holding a Mont Blanc in his hand was seconds away from signing a deal with XYZ Technologies. Bob is a patent owner who had spent 10 years of his life researching technology focusing on call forwarding and ring silencer techniques in mobile phones. After spending […]
How to perform a Patent Infringement analysis by yourself
Mark (Amused): How did you do it? There isn’t a single strategy that fits, I’ve been spiraling down and folding back with every other search partner. Aadesh (Me): Feels like an endlessly branching maze, doesn’t it? Mark, who is an IP Counsel was struggling with a patent infringement case and had faced disappointment with every […]
Shadowing a New Analyst’s approach to Patent Monetization
With every project comes a challenge, and with every challenge that we overcome a milestone is set. Most of you would relate to this – some when they push their limits at the gym, others when they come up with stronger and stronger arguments each time they appear in front of the court. For most […]
GreyB’s Patent Ranking Engine Helps a Patent Counsel in Monetization
Imagine a situation where you are collating a patent portfolio for monetization or there’s a plan to acquire patents. This is like investing in gold or platinum, sort of a difficult call, isn’t it? Before putting huge efforts into portfolio formation, you would like to get positive indications on the patents so that you can […]
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 […]
