The US Supreme Court’s Alice decision was predicted to have a significant impact on the deals market, but the results were not what we expected.

The current issue of IAM carries the latest annual survey on the brokered patent deals market from the team at Richardson Oliver Insights.

Since average price per patent was the “worst thing that has ever happened to patents”, we are pleased to introduce the new worst thing ever.

In addition to licensing or litigating patent rights, universities have the option to sell their patents outright to third parties. In this chapter, we explore the extent to which universities and other nonprofit research institutes currently participate in the secondary market for patents.

“Like what Zillow did for the real estate market” – Data on $12B in deals covering 120,000 patents for sale across nearly 5,000 deals

Changes in how you watch movies, stream TV and use video chat are on the way. These will fundamentally affect the economics of how content is delivered to you, as well as the way that the patents underpinning the enabling technology are licensed.

In our sixth annual report on the secondary patent market, we find stabilization and even recovery.

Five years of patent market data is reviewed and used to make predictions about the overall patent industry.

Our client’s executive team needed to better understand the investment and expected risk reduction return from their patent portfolio. We helped them build a financial model and direct their patent strategy using an approach where we identified and maximized patent value.

Kent Richardson and Erik Oliver are proud and humbled to be selected for the ninth and eighth years respectively for IAM's Top 300 IP Strategists.

Our annual brokered market report is now available for download. We look at the average asking price for patents, who are the biggest buyers and sellers, which brokers are most active, and what happens after the patents are bought.

The sales market for patent rights continues to vex analysts – especially in terms of valuation. In their Patently-O Patent Law Journal article, Professor Mark Lemley teams up with the Richardson Oliver Law Group to provide further guidance.

Bloomberg/BNA (paywalled) has published its second quarter analysis of the ROL Group patent market data. Our data continues to be a valuable resource for those seeking to buy or sell patents.