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Strategic Patent Value Creation &
Portfolio Development
Investment in early stage patent combined
with well tailored value creation methodology can develop a new patent for
monetization. Many patent applications can be further developed for creating
new economic values by amending claims to encompass market demand. By auditing
clients’ current patent portfolios, TechIPm can find a good candidate for value
creation. By consulting detail descriptions in conjunction with market demand,
TechIPm can develop new claims covering new economic value creating business models.
TechIPm also can provide an expert advice for the development of patent
portfolios through a careful analysis of the emerging technology trends and the
IP landscape. TechIPm's patent portfolio consulting service delivers an
analysis for the current patent portfolio status and future directions in
alignment with client's monetization program development. TechIPm also provide
patent prosecution services for international IP portfolios, especially for IPR
in US, S. Korea, Japan, China, and India.
Standard Essential Patents Evaluation &
Development
TechIPm's standard essential patent
consulting service delivers the analysis for the evaluation of potential
standard essential patent (SEP) candidates and future IPR directions in
alignment with the standardization process. TechIPm can also develop a SEP with
participating in the standardization activities. Sometimes, developing SEPs
without participating in the standardization activities is possible because
some of key aspects of the technologies adopted during the standardization
process can already be developed by a third party who is not the participating
member of the standardization activities. Thus, if the third party filed a
patent covering the technologies adopted as the standard, he or she can further
develop it though claim development and patent prosecution process to be a SEP.
Strategic Patent Acquisition
TechIPm provides an expert advice for
strategic patent acquisition for diverse clients including business
corporations, research institutes, investment organizations, and patent
management firms. TechIPm can align diverse clients’ business purpose (e.g.
competitive intelligence, offensive, defensive, and monetization) with
strategic patent acquisition process. With the specific business goal in mind,
TechIPm can classify the field of acquisition target by
market/product/service/technology. TechIPm also can evaluate the value of
acquisition target. TechIPm can decide the best sourcing method among potential
options: patent search and mining, close/open patent market place, internal
auditing and patent development process. TechIPm also can coordinate the
deal/transaction process collaborating with brokers.
Strategic Patent Licensing Program
Development
Techipm provides consulting service for
developing profitable patent licensing program. Techipm closely work with
client for developing patent licensing program until the closing of the
licensing agreement. Techipm provides strategic planning in alignment with
client's business goal, due diligence for licensable patent portfolios,
strategic patent prosecution for monetization value creation, analysis for
target market, potential licensees and revenue generating potential, and
licensing enforcement (including litigation) strategy.
IP based Commercialization as Dominant Design
Dominant Design is the key technological product/service
designs that become a standard in the market place. IP based Commercialization
as Dominant Design is a strategic methodology to exploit your IP for innovative
technology to create dominant design by developing a new business model and
forming a business ecosystem.
S. Korea is the best place for testing
commercial potentials of newly developed innovative technologies in IT and
Telecom. Once a new technology is successful in S. Korea's testing market, it
could become a global dominant design such as in the case of Qualcomm's CDMA
technology. TechIPm provides the strategy and business development consulting
services by launching your IP based Dominant Design prototype in S. Korea's testing
market based on more than 10 years business experiences in S. Korea.
Products
Wireless Technology Standard Essential
Patents Candidates Data
A standard essential patent (SEP) is a key
intellectual property rights (IPRs) for the implementation of the standardized
technology specifications. SEPs encompass IPRs for the essential aspect of
standardized technologies. Usually, all the essential aspects of standardized
technologies are specified in standard technology specifications. Thus, SEPs
can be defined as patents that include one or more claims that are infringed by
the implementation of certain standard specifications. To facilitate interoperability
among the industry players, participants in the development of standards
establish specifications for the essential components of the standardized
technology. Consequently, all the standard-compliant products that implement
the standardized technologies specified in the standard technology will
infringe SEPs. The main advantage of SEPs is their easy-of-proof of patent
infringement characteristic. Therefore SEPs are the most important monetization
assets for extracting maximum ROI from operating profitable licensing program
in wireless technology industry.
The standard setting organizations (SSOs)
require that the members participating in the standardization process to agree
ex ante to license their SEPs under fair, reasonable, and nondiscriminatory (FRAND)
terms ex post to any implementers of the standard. The members’ agreements to
license their SEPs under FRAND terms are usually called FRAND commitments.
Recently, the U.S. courts provided basic guidelines for assessing FRAND royalty
for SEPs to comply with FRAND commitments. One of the key factures in
evaluating FRAND royalty according to the courts guidelines is the number of
licensor’s SEPs compare to the total number of SEPs in a specific standard.
Thus, it is very important to know the total number of SEPs in a specific
standard and individual licensor's SEP share in number to operate successful
licensing program. Wireless Technology Standard Essential Patents Candidates
Data is a product of TechIPm, based on specific standard related patents research
for US market leader. Wireless Technology Standard Essential Patents Candidates
Data provides the potential SEP candidates information selected through
essentiality evaluation process.
For more information, please contact Dr. Alex
G. Lee at alexglee@techipm.com
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