Patent Due Diligence Service
Sagacious IP’s Patent Due Diligence service does a thorough investigation to assess the quantity, quality and enforceability of a patent or an entire portfolio owned by a company. It helps the acquirer measure the technical as well as legal parameters surrounding a patent to enable sound business decisions.
Evaluate Technical and Legal Assessment of a Patent or a Portfolio
Due Diligence Perspective - The Sagacious Way
Before you acquire a patent, it is important to assess it from different perspectives. Sagacious IP’s Patent Due Diligence investigates whether a patent is valid and/or enforceable. It helps to ascertain that the patent claims (information concerning the patent owner, named inventors, technical field or market) are correct and that there are no issues related to patent enforceability that might impact patent claim scope, which in turn may impact patent infringement.
Organizations leverage Patent Due Diligence for:
- Internal Audit of a company
- Patent/Company Acquisition
- Patent Assertion firms before asserting a portfolio
- Assessment by 3rd parties when providing loan on IP
- Valuation of a company
- Valuation of IP assets/Patents
- Filing Bankruptcy
Why Us?
Sagacious IP’s Due Diligence service helps the acquirer assess whether the values presented by the seller are accurate. However, it is not only the buyers who utilize our Due Diligence service stack. We also provide deliverables that are helpful for sellers to create value for potential buyers. Here’s why:
- Separate teams for evaluating technical & legal diligence work
- Comprehensive technical diligence of a portfolio including but not limited to
- Breadth of claim with respect to comment on potential infringement, validity
- Geographical coverage
- Potential gems/deal drivers
- Supplemental feature provided to the product
- One time as well as managed services for portfolio legal diligence, with regular notifications
- Experience in handling 160+ country-specific PTO websites
- Understanding of latest patent laws and changes
- Ability to calculate accurate expiry date of patents as per corresponding country laws
Impact Stories
Due Diligence for Yahoo! patents
A Fortune 50 client approached Sagacious for the due diligence on the Yahoo! portfolio when it was offered for sale. Sagacious evaluated around 3,000 patents to identify which patents could be acquired. Eventually, based on the report shared the portfolio was not acquired.
Due Diligence for Alcatel patents
Sagacious evaluated certain sets of Alcatel patents from the perspective of acquisition for one of the clients in the Software Defined Networks vertical. The portfolio was promising. However, the decision-making window was very short and eventually the company, including the patent portfolio was acquired by Nokia.
FAQs
Patent due diligence can be defined as a method of carefully analyzing a company’s patent portfolio. It can take two forms – offensive and defensive. When patent due diligence is offensive, it helps you to determine whether an entity or individual is infringing your patents or whether your patents can be monetized. On the other hand, when patent due diligence is defensive, it helps you to evaluate if you have the freedom to operate your new business venture. This includes information about whether you are infringing on an individual’s or entity’s patents as well as the steps that you can take to mitigate those risks.
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