Posts Tagged: patent monetization
Succeeding With Consistent Portfolio Audits
To keep pace with competitors, businesses must constantly monitor, adjust, and streamline their patent portfolios. Doing so ensures that portfolios deliver the maximum potential return on investment …
A Surreal Endeavor: Asserting Patent Rights in the U.S.
Asserting patent rights is a surreal endeavor these days. While the statistics on survival at the PTAB are improving, with the percentage of initiated proceedings declining and …
Has the Patent System failed US tech companies?
Patent Monetization is a wake. The Patent System failed US tech companies. Licensing is dead. Patent values are zero – perhaps even negative.... The Silicon Valley elites have …
Patent-Based Financings: Unlocking Licensing Revenues While Mitigating IP Monetization Risks
Patent monetization has become nearly impossible for middle-market technology companies without engaging in some level of legal action. Management teams have consequently shied away from pursuing licensing …
The changing face of university technology transfer
Today (TTOs) are increasingly being run by professionals who are experienced in startups, licensing, monetizing and have tremendous depth of technical knowledge in a variety of fields. …
A patent without enforcement value has no licensing value
Enforcement of patents through litigation occurs when licensing has failed to result in an arms length negotiated resolution. In other words, patent owners resort to litigation when …
A Repeatable Approach To Portfolio Monetization
To successfully monetize a patent portfolio, it is incredibly important to identify value within it, and to put in the work to prove to third parties and …
Marathon Patent restructuring will put Fortress subsidiary in charge of patent monetization
Marathon is transferring certain parts of its intellectual property portfolio to newly created special-purpose entities (SPEs), which would give greater control over patent monetization strategies to a …
Seven Hallmarks of a Rational Global Patent Strategy
Faced with ever-shrinking budgets and mounting pressure from the C-suite to demonstrate intellectual property (IP) value, many enterprises have jettisoned a once-prevailing global patent strategy: “File anywhere …
Patent Market Trends and the Key Factors Impacting Patent Valuation
While patent portfolios are entering the market other patent portfolios continue to leave the market having been purchased. Asking prices seem to have also reached an equilibrium …
Does Your IP Strategy Need a Tune-Up?
While many, if not most, enterprises have instituted, and are executing, an IP strategy of some sort, an important question should be considered: Is the IP strategy …
What is the best way to assess the potential value of a patent portfolio?
What is the best way to assess the potential value or use of a patent portfolio? Before we examine this, it’s important to clarify that a …
Free Webinar: Assessing the Current State of Patent Value
Join Gene Quinn and Ashley Keller on Wednesday, September 28, 2016 at 12pm ET for a discussion on the current state of patent value. We will take your questions, …
Is Patent Licensing or Sales Part of Your IP Strategy?
To maximize the return on investment from a patent portfolio, patent owners must determine which is more lucrative: sales or licensing. In general, patent licensing promises the …
Negotiating with Intellectual Ventures (IV)? What about their other funds?
This post provides a practical approach for companies to handle the licensing of Intellectual Venture’s (IV’s) smaller in-house funds (ISF & IDF) during a negotiation …
