We explore how you can model the expected cost and revenue of your ongoing cross-licensing negotiations to make it easier to prioritize your activities, and how doing that helps you run your cross-licensing program like a business.

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

This panel will discuss the current state of the secondary patent market, who’s buying, who’s selling, and at what price? It will look at what happens to patents after a sale, including the chance of winning on a bought patent. It will examine both standalone sales and the relatively invisible marketplace in which patents contribute significant value to a deal, including M&As, technology spinouts, JVs, tech-transfers, and exclusive field-of-use licenses.

We surveyed 30 leading technology companies to discover how much many unseen patent assertions they face in a year. Unseen patent assertions are invitations to take a patent license where there is no litigation. We use the data to extrapolate the costs to these companies.

Bloomberg's reporting of the quarterly patent market results including coverage of the purchase of Nokia assets by Provenance Asset Group LLP. Bloomberg uses ROL data for the market reports.

Erik Oliver provides insight into the expected outcome of the Supreme Court case in Oil States Energy Services, LLC.

Erik Oliver provides insight into the expected outcome of the Supreme Court case in SAS Institute v. Matal.

A new tool has been created that quickly allows the searching of examiner rejections to uncover whether any patent or patent application within your portfolio has been used by an examiner against another application to support a 102 rejection.

Technology companies often sell their patents to assertion entities, otherwise known as “patent trolls,” according to a study published on Oct. 20 by law professor Brian Love and the law firm Richardson Oliver Law Group.

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

Mr. Richardson will present findings and projections on the brokered and secondary patent market including who is buying/selling patents, how much are they are paying, what technologies are hot, and what are the trends.

Patent owners now have to think more strategically about where to file infringement lawsuits after the U.S. Supreme Court in May put new restrictions on venues for such cases.

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.

Why is patent value a better metric to use to set patent strategy? What sources of patent value can be identified for high technology companies? We review how patents are used and how they can be valued based upon their use.

Your CEO: “Why are we spending so much on patents?” Your CFO: “Do we have a financial model for this spend?” The path forward isn’t clear. Now what? In this case study, we explore how we helped a high-technology, startup client model the value of their patent portfolio and patent strategy.

“You Need Defensive Patents but You Don't Have Any. Now What? A Case Study.” Richardson et. al. IPWatchdog (August 2017)

Given the myriad of ways companies use to monetize their patents, how do you know which choice to make? ROL Group delves into this question by looking at the different types of monetization strategies available, and balances the options based on their current market and judicial factors.

Most high technology companies have a good grasp of the challenges and solutions for dealing with patent trolls. However, successful high technology startups face a threat beyond patent trolls: large corporate patent asserters looking to license their patents.

The profiles of patent buyers, as well as their motivations, are changing. This makes the ability to package assets to maximize deal-making success more important than ever.

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.