Patent Commercialization: 5 Ways to Make Money From Your Patents
A registration of patent provides an exclusive right granted to the inventor, to exclude others from using their invention of new product or process, in any manner without their permission. Now, this is common knowledge that it is a monopolistic right, which could restrict others from using or infringing on the patent holder’s rights. Given […]
Patent Monetization: How to Increase the Monetary Value of a Patent?
Someone once said, “The chances of a person winning a lottery are greater than a person making a fortune out of their patents.” Whether I could deem this person wise or otherwise, for saying so, I am not sure. Over the years spent in the domain, what I have learned is that a lot of […]
GreyFox – A Tool That Helps Sell or License Undervalued Patents
One of the major concerns for corporations is how to sell their undervalued patents. Another concern they face is to increase the value of their good patents as thousands of good patents get abandoned every year just because they mistakenly get considered as patents having no value. We feel this happens because of two reasons: The decision is […]
A 4-step Process to License your patent portfolio
IP licensing can be a great source of revenue generation for companies with significant patent portfolios. Take Qualcomm for instance, which generates billions in patent royalties every year. Arm Holdings is another amazing example which makes all its revenue by licensing its Intellectual Property solely. This revenue can further be invested to fuel innovation. But […]
How Patents Impact Share Prices of Companies?
When it comes to valuation of a company, the market seems to react promptly to product releases, but intangible assets seem to be hardly relevant to investors. This is happening even though there are multiple empirical studies in existence, suggesting a strong positive correlation between high stock prices and innovation – R&D and Patent data. […]
Are You Throwing Away Your Million Dollar Patents?
Are you unknowingly throwing away your company’s best patents, just to save some bucks on maintenance fee? Or, did your company decided not to pay the maintenance fee due to a lack of potential licensees? Well, this is not a common phenomenon. Major tech giants including the likes of IBM, Samsung, and Apple spend millions […]
Patent Asserted by Thermolife – Are They Really Strong?
Since 2013, one company in the bodybuilding supplement industry has been making rounds in many IP blogs. It has earned some accolades from the industry, like being the third most litigious patent holder of 2013. Last but not least, it has been running its patent litigation spree since 2013, filing more than 100 patent infringement lawsuits. […]
How Automation Tools Help Making a Patent Monetization Strategy
Can you think of traveling from London to Paris by just walking instead of using an airplane? Impossible! You may even call me a lunatic for just asking such a silly question. But the point is if we are not keeping pace with rapidly changing technology, we might be on the losing side. Similar is […]
How to Identify Products that are Infringing your Patents?
The main drawback of the patent system is that it only gives a patent holder a right to exclude without any provision to help them detect patent infringement. It is left on a patent holder to find out the products that might be infringing on the claims of their patents. This leaves a patent holder […]
The Hidden Gems in the Patent Portfolio of Singapore’s A*Star
A*Star is one of the entities with an exciting patent portfolio distributed across diverse applications. This was precisely the reason we picked it for our study on analyzing the potential of patents. As You Sow, So Shall You Reap The above saying holds true for A*Star that has sown the seeds of the patent. But […]
How to Defeat A Design Around, Prove Infringement, and Increase Value of a Patent
Have you ever found yourself in a situation where a product was infringing on your patents? But you could do nothing as the product was designed around to avoid infringement? More often, we come across a situation where we identify a lot of potentially infringing products; however, these products have one or two features preventing […]
Which Are the Most Valuable Patents in Qualcomm Patent Portfolio?
With a valuation of over $85 billion and 130th rank in Fortune 500, Qualcomm has indeed come a long way since its humble beginning in 1985. The turning point of their fortune was the mass adoption and implementation of the CDMA standard proposed by Qualcomm in 1990. This was a milestone in their progress and in the following years, they contributed […]
How We Used Reverse Engineering to Confirm Patent Infringement?
One of the major challenges faced by a patent licensing manager is to find and prove evidence of an infringement. Not so strong evidence of the use chart can become a standalone factor for the failure of a patent licensing program. Reverse engineering can help confirm patent infringement by mapping relevant claims to the result […]
Four Step Approach to Performance Analysis in IP Asset Monetization
The importance of performance analysis for success in any walk of life – be it business, academia, or anything for that matter – can’t be stressed enough upon. A lot has already been written and discussed on the subject. However, there are only a handful of articles discussing how to go about it, the pre-work […]
Patent Licensing – A Way for Universities to Generate More Revenue
Universities spend billions to provide first-class research and education. To support that spending, these organizations rely on students’ tuition fees and funding they receive from the government/corporations. In essence, revenue generation of universities depends on external factors. Hence, it’s the high time all the universities start exploring new ways to generate revenue from their resources […]
Patent Monetization Mistakes Most Businesses Are Collectively Making
In business, the cost is everything. As such, in drafting and prosecuting patents, the lowest-cost provider usually wins the business. While this approach may well result in obtaining patents at a lower cost, it does little to create real value from a patent portfolio unless that is your sole strategy – to collect many patents […]
