We have experience in designing and implementing strategies that will help secure, protect and leverage our client’s valuable intellectual properties. We counsel our clients as to checks, balances, and regular evaluations of their patents, registered designs, trademarks, brands, trade secrets, and/or know-how. These are critical drivers for a company’s valuation and for its ability to make, use, sell, and evaluate prospective products, especially in the emerging technologies and bioscience markets. In this role, we pride ourselves as strategic business partners of our clients charged with maximizing their IP protection while minimizing their exposure to third party IP rights.

We provide patent portfolio planning and patent portfolio analysis in connection with financing, evaluating, and acquiring technology. We also help clients with assessment and surveillance of competitive and other third-party patent positions. We provide opinions on freedom to use, infringement, validity, and patentability.

Further, we can provide comprehensive services related to IP portfolio management, including evaluating your IP portfolio’s strengths and weaknesses, defining IP strategies, and auditing your portfolio. Further, we can provide counseling on product clearance opinions, competitive cross-licensing, and litigation strategies. Our clients value our personalized service to their growth and success.

Patent Portfolio Development

We can work alongside your staff in order to gain insight into your business’ strategic direction and IP assets. In addition, we monitor the commercial landscape for new licensing opportunities or patent targets and we help you plan both offensive and defensive licensing strategies.

We can help you organize your patent assets and realize their value as well as identify the products, companies and industries that have the greatest licensing potential. We do this by developing a comprehensive and streamlined patent portfolio. Our methodology includes patent mining to identify and review your patent assets followed by categorization where we map the patents by technology, product, and market. Following this is a patent review, which rates the patent based on market use, cost, complexity of analysis, prior art implications, and technical strengths and limitations. Creating the patent product matrix identifies products that deserve to be analyzed for possible infringement and the patent market matrix identifies the targets for licensing revenue.

We are available to answer all your questions about developing your patent portfolio as part of your company’s strategic business development objectives.

Investing in Intellectual Properties

We provide clients with a general valuation of their intellectual property portfolio utilizing our skills in competition searching and claim analysis. We also provide specific financial target amounts for intellectual property portfolios in order to assist clients in the licensing, selling or litigation of any of their IP.

We can work with investment, venture capitalists and merger and acquisition firms to help assign value to potential investment or takeover prospects, respectively. We encourage you to contact us so that we may demonstrate how we can tailor our intellectual property services to your needs.

Technology Transfer

Our attorneys can handle all aspects of technology transfer agreements and negotiations, including the technology licensing process, marketing, and patent management. The technology transfer process often requires matching your invention with prospective partners/licensees, negotiating terms and conditions and preparing agreements that afford protection for the intellectual property.

We can help our clients seek practical applications for the results of their scientific research. We help them recognize their idea/concept as an invention, apply the discovery to practical problems, assess the commercial potential, protect the intellectual property, and then market and commercialize it. We understand that technology transfer negotiations are not only about cost and terms; they also involve successful business development by two strategic partners and the resultant technology transfer agreement should benefit both partners. Our attorneys have experience in negotiating and drafting domestic and international technology transfer agreements.

Patent Licensing

We have broad experience with all forms of corporate partnering deals, from commercializing specific items of intellectual property to broad strategic collaborations and joint ventures. We have particular expertise in intellectual property “due diligence” in connection with mergers and acquisitions.

Our attorneys have wide-spread experience preparing and negotiating licensing agreements. We can provide the patentee with a valuation of their patent so that they can obtain their desired royalty. We also assist our clients to target potential products, fields and ideas that may be ripe for licensing. Further, our attorneys are able to use their expertise in other areas, such as patent searching, design-around consulting and opinion drafting in order to shore-up our clients’ positions in licensing negotiations. We also routinely review licensing agreements and provide opinions regarding existing agreements.