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Managing your patent portfolio, whether you have just of few patents or 10s of thousands is one of the more difficult challenges for a corporate IP group. To know your existing patents; their technology, scope, strengths, limitations, as well as keeping up on your newly issued patents is a never ending task.
GIS offers a variety of services to help with Patent Portfolio Management.
Patent Portfolio Mining: Finding the gems in a portfolio is one of our specialties. GIS has a proven track record of picking the high value patents out of the crowd.
Patent Reviews: Whether you are looking for a 3rd party opinion of your patents, or you simply do not have the time or expertise to evaluate a particular group of patents, GIS’s mix of patent and technical expertise will help you get the job done.
Patent Landscape: A Patent Landscape is a high level analysis of a group of related patents. The analysis looks at macro-level trends such as identifying the top patent holders, or patenting trends by specific companies. It can also be used as the basis of a Freedom-to-Operate analysis. |
Patent Divestiture: Patents that provide no benefit to the assignee may be sold to generate revenue. GIS can help by first reviewing patents to identify candidates to be sold as well as acting as a broker to find potential buyers and complete the sale.
Patent Acquisition: Another key source of patents is to purchase them. In these situations you must often evaluate a portfolio in a very short time to decide whether to place a bid and decide how much to bid. One of GIS’s specialties is finding the key patents in the portfolio on a tight schedule, and delivering to you the information you need in order to make your decision.
Patent Valuation: Many small and medium sized companies would like to list their patents as assets to enhance the value of their company for financing or M&A purposes. GIS can provide the technical and business data on which a valuation can be made.
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