Business scene

When an enterprise or university or institute has a certain number of patents in accumulation, it usually considers patent exploitation through various means such as patent licensing, patent assignment, and even litigation. In the procedure of patent commercialization there are much issues, which patents to choose, which means to take, what conditions to use, and to whom the operation is implemented, all need to establish on the basis of the overall strategy design after clarifying patent operation purpose while operation activity is the specific implementation of commercialization strategy.

Working procedure

Patent commercialization strategy design and implementation generally include the following steps:

• 1

  To investigate client’s corresponding business model, status quo of patent management, the status of the patent, the patent(s) detail, and competitive status and patent trend in the industry to analyze and determine the patent commercialization demand;

• 2

  To follow the patent commercialization target, select appropriate patent combination, determine the ways and objects of patent operation, analyze possible operation channels and operation risk, investigate operation situation of similar patents, and formulate patent operation strategy and plan;

• 3

  Conduct stability analysis for the key patent(s) in patent portfolio for commercialization (plans to conduct patent litigation or licensing, proposed);

• 4

  Conduct comparative analysis between claims and infringement of related products for the key patent(s) in patent portfolio for operation (plans to conduct patent litigation or licensing, proposed);

• 5

  Implement patent commercialization plan.

Service achievements

Due to the situation of domestic patents commercialization, most clients of operation that IPFuTure currently serves are clients who have jointly conducted high-value patent portfolio earlier. Therefore, based on in-depth understanding of clients, IPFuTure has designed effective patent operation strategies for clients and also provides clients with patent portfolio operation attempt in the United States, Europe, and China.