Patent Portfolio Value Enhancement
Various Patent Offices provide time-bound opportunities for a patent owner to improve and have a better coverage of their technology by filing CP or CIP applications. However, most applicants are unable to leverage these tools timely either due to ignorance or bandwidth issues. Sagacious IP’s Directed or Strategic Patent Prosecution Support service enables you to build a comprehensive patent portfolio by timely identifying products that are very close in terms of the technology disclosed in the claims of a subject patent and then making changes to the claims so that the ease of identifying infringement for the updated claims increases. These claims are then filed in an application as a CP or CIP applications to increase coverage of your technology to cover even futuristic products and increasing the valuation as well as shelf life of your patent and technology.
When do you need?
- Increasing patent portfolio
- Strategic investment
- Which and how many patents are aligned to core business
- Entering new market division
- Adding to portfolio value while selling a division
- Future & competitor proofing portfolio
- Adding coverage around exsiting core portfolio
Why Choose Sagacious for Patent Portfolio Value Enhancement?
- Subject matter experts – including telecom, microprocessors, memory and video codecs
- Ability to understand the scope of claims with respect to infringement perspective and suggest changes as per our experience
- In-depth knowledge of continuation & CIP process
- Expertise to suggest claim changes – adding/removing/rephrasing elements to have better read on market products
- Clear deliverables showing overlap in the information available online and the claim elements and thus the suggestions on which terms/elements to retain and how to simplify the claim
- Specification mining with respect to target product and suggesting new claims for filing
- Trusted by more than 20 Fortune500 companies
Impact Stories
Impact Story 1
A large Fortune500 telecom giant from Europe asked us to identify infringement of their portfolio in the area of microcontrollers. We identified some patents that were infringed and then some patents where there was Intent of Use (IoU). However, not all claim limitations were present. Moreover, there were claim terms which did not make sense to be included. There were many low-level details that could have been excluded from the claim. The resulting application was filed as CP.
Impact Story 2
Sagacious routinely analyses the patent portfolio of a Fortune100 company to identify patents that have at least 1 open application. These patents are then evaluated against its competitor’s products to see if there is a need to tweak the claims.
