Corporate Patent Assertion Defense

Large corporate patent asserters are one of the greatest patent threats to fast growing companies. Defending against corporate assertions requires a team with specialized knowledge to help protect your fiscal interests and get you back to what matters as quickly as possible.

We have been engaged to defend against some of the largest corporate patent asserters in the world. Our approach focuses on the help you need:

  • Engagement Plan and Expectation-Setting: We help the internal team understand the facts and set up a negotiation plan engaging the corporate asserters while reducing the risk of litigation.

  • Defense against Specific Assertions: We perform financial analysis, claim chart analysis, prior art review and exhaustion analysis to strengthen your defensive position.

  • Counter Assertion Development and Execution: Either within your own portfolio or purchasing assets, we can help present effective counter assertion patents to reduce or eliminate the corporate asserter threat.

  • Timelines: Working together, we set expectations for how the defensive plan plays out.

  • "It takes technical depth and creativity to dramatically change the outcome of litigation. The ROL Group successfully sought out and bought patents that changed the outcome of our counter assertion to a reasonable figure."

Case Studies & Publications

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“Now a Big Company Wants You to Take a Patent License...” Richardson et. al. IPWatchdog (July 2017)

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.

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“How and Why LinkedIn Learned to Love Patents.” Harrington et. al. IAM Magazine Issue 82 (March 2017)

LinkedIn was a big brand name with a small patent portfolio – a combination that made it vulnerable to a patent attack. In 2012 the LinkedIn decided to do something about it.

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“The Strategic Counter-Assertion Model for Patent Portfolio ROI.” Richardson et. al. IAM Magazine (July 2015)

Targeting the revenues of other companies according to the patent assertion risk they present effectively defines your patent development and external acquisition strategies. We show how to build a financial model to determine where you spend your patent development and buying dollars and then how to calculate and ROI.

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