Patent Licensing in Universities – Extracting value from research investments
Universities in the US encourage researchers with innovative minds to pursue their inventions and invest into patenting promising inventions expecting to generate profits by licensing the developed technology to interested companies. The technology transfer offices of the universities usually get many invention ideas from their researchers and have to decide which ones to invest further time and resources […]
IP Intelligence for Patent Licensing & Enforcement Activity
Most companies hold on to their patents as a defensive means to protect themselves from competition gaining an upper hand from their innovations and development efforts. Their ability to drive maximum revenues for the business comes from their ability to have exclusive access to their innovation and fend off the competition for a stipulated time […]
Unlocking value from your IP using Patent Citation Intelligence
Historically, the interest in unlocking patent value by licensing has picked up momentum when IBM declared more than 1 Billion USD revenues purely from patent licensing. This is why even after having successful products, companies with 50 or more active patents are looking at ways to unlock greater value from their IP portfolios. Nowadays, dedicated […]
Quantitative Portfolio Analysis and picking up patents for less
The current economic environment is a good time to be picking up patents at pennies to the dollar either directly from inventors or smaller companies for quickly enhancing the existing patent portfolio and thereby increasing your counter-sue threat to anyone who may sue you for infringement. One of the popular techniques is Quantitative Portfolio Gap […]
Patent in the Gaming Industry
Gaming is perhaps one of the fine examples of how boundaries blur between developing end customer value and protecting IP. Let’s say your software company developed a radical new rendering engine that can allow pixel perfect resolution and provide a gamer the ability to ‘simulate’ Hi Definition video. However, what you manged to do was […]