Solve Innovation Problems.

Seize Opportunity.

Discover True Potential.

Address strategy gaps and transform portfolios into assets that drive growth and counter the competition.

Improve Portfolio Value: Our analytical services mine hidden opportunities and whitespace, ensuring every IP dollar delivers measurable ROI.

Align with Business Goals: Strategic planning integrates patents into product lifecycles, acquisitions, and licensing for seamless monetization.

Upgrade Innovation Effectiveness: Inventor training and competitor assessments eliminate biases, boost output, and prepare IP for exits.

Target Opportunities Faster: Right-sizing of risks and benefits brings clear options for execution, supporting business goals within budget limits while framing opportunities for growth and value.

Solutions responding to your needs.

Transactional Services

Common IP offerings reframed for value.

  • Concept capture and improvement

  • Application drafting and prosecution

  • Product clearance

  • Risk mitigation

  • Contract management

  • Litigation prep and contingency planning

Solutions for specific situations.

Inventor Improvement Training

Need better output from your inventor team?

  • Inventor education on how to recognize inventions

  • Collaborative sessions to vet and improve concepts

  • Proven methods for motivating inventor output

  • Can be used to aim inventive effort at company/competitor strengths or weaknesses

Concept Incubation

Need an experienced hand guiding new product line launches?

  • Designed for innovation that breaks you into entirely new markets

  • Counters legacy corporate groupthink

  • Plans for responses of established market players

  • Right-sized for iterative product development

  • Can support collaborations or JDAs

Right-Sizing Audit

Need to control costs while maintaining value and options?

  • Reviews existing portfolios for cost-saving pruning

  • Identifies unprotected inventions and vulnerabilities

  • Ranks IP having monetizable and competitive value

  • Addresses overlooked risks to valuable IP positions

  • May identify patent mining opportunities

Analytical Services

Deeper review of opportunities.

  • Right-sizing legacy patent portfolios

  • Evaluating investments and acquisitions

  • Mining undervalued patent portfolios

  • Improving value of acquired portfolios

  • Preparing IP for trading

  • Vetting design arounds

Competitor Assessment

Need an improved understanding of competitors?

  • Provides better understanding of competitor limitations

  • Spots lines of attack for limiting competitors options

  • Useful for identifying availability of off-patent features

  • May identify opportunities to improve your products

Acquisition Enhancement

Need to maximize value from an acquisition?

  • Modifies incoming portfolios to increase value

  • Provides fresh perspective to externally-generated IP

  • Can double incoming portfolio if supported

  • Seeks out unrealized litigation positions

  • Can include generation of product patent strategy

Legacy Revival

Need to get more out of stale or old portfolios?

  • Applies fresh prosecution strategies disrupting the status quo

  • Frames potential new IP filings and feature introduction

  • Based on experience generating new IP for old technologies

  • Highly effective with regulated technologies

  • Designed to keep your products on-patent

Strategic Services

Executing on your business goals.

  • Preparing IP for out-sale and out-licensing

  • Readying product launch strategies and backup plans

  • Structuring royalties and premium pricing

  • Blocking or limiting competitors

  • Establishing defensive responses to threats

  • Preparing startups for investors and exits

  • Collaboration and JDA management

Early-Stage Amplification

Need to be the best candidate from the investor’s perspective?

  • Provides investor perspective of startup patent portfolios

  • Broadcasts your strengths and clarifies investor value

  • Identifies cost-effective pathways for improvements

  • Quick and long-term fixes to common errors

  • Can include prosecution and licensing strategies

Competition Blocking

Need to develop IP positions relevant to your competitors?

  • Applies multiple strategies for limiting competitor options

  • Defines countermeasures to offensive actions

  • Frames backup plans for negative outcomes

  • Looks over the horizon for opportunities

  • May include tactics that are not common for the industry

Infringement Monitoring

Need an experienced eye on your competitors or (former) partners?

  • Creative and cost-effective tracking and analysis strategies

  • Identifies competitor designs likely to intersect your IP rights

  • Investigates theft and misappropriation potentials

  • Can scale to match company aggressiveness levels

  • May identify patent mining opportunities

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