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Asset Cataloging Services
Cataloging involves analyzing, evaluating and organizing a portfolio of
patents and technology assets. Tynax provides a range of
cataloging services to support licensing, sales, portfolio
pruning and acquisition activities.
Typical Clients
Organizations with substantial portfolios and significant
investments in patents and intellectual property are the most
obvious clients, however, smaller patent holders now see the
benefits from cataloging their portfolios. Clients include
the patent and intellectual property groups in large
corporations, R&D labs, offices of technology licensing and
strategic licensing groups in a variety of organizations. The
larger the portfolio, the more compelling is the need for cataloging analysis but
it is a valuable activity for small portfolios comprising as few
as 10-20 patents.
Typical Projects
The projects fall into three groups: cataloging the portfolios
for marketing purposes, cataloging to assist the organization
prioritize its patent prosecution and acquisition strategies,
and cataloging to support litigation activities.
Each project involves identifying the patents owned and
organizing them into a structure reflecting the nature the
business. The organization can be by technology type, market
type, product type--or a combination of these and other factors.
Marketing oriented projects involve discovering the key benefits
of an asset and presenting this in a way that appeals to
potential buyers or licensees. Corporate I.P. strategy
projects involve grading and categorizing each of the assets.
Litigation support projects often involve matching claims across
numerous patents. |
| Common Questions Asked |
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Here are examples of some of the questions that can be
answered as result of a cataloging process:
- Which patents are the most valuable to our organization
today?
- Which patents will be most valuable to us when we launch
our new product range?
- Which patents are the most valuable to potential
acquirers?
- Which patents no longer match our product and business
needs?
- What is our patent coverage in this specific technology
sector?
- What claims do we have across all our patents relating
to this specific technology?
- Which patents would make the best candidates to sell?
- Which patents and technologies could we license out?
- Which patents and technologies should we spin out in the
form of a technology transfer?
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Financial Justification |
Cataloging costs can be quickly recovered through revenues from
the sale of unwanted patents and from licensing and technology
transfer transactions. An online, database driven, catalog
can also cut the cost of analyzing the portfolio in relation to
licensing and other transactions.
An organized catalog of patents and intellectual property assets
can also help the employees understand where the company has
existing strengths and perhaps trigger new product ideas.
It could also reduce the risk of reinventing the
wheel--preventing teams from recreating technologies that the
organization already owns. |
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Legal Justification |
| When organizations find themselves involved in
patent litigation suits, they need quick, reliable access to the
patent portfolio--often to quickly identify claims matching
certain technologies. An organized catalog can help the legal
team efficiently navigate through large numbers of patents and
claims. |
| Why Tynax? |
Tynax has a sophisticated database-driven platform that has been developed
over several years and experience of cataloging large numbers of patents
and technology-related assets. The company has relationships with
other software companies offering complementary patent claim cataloging
systems, products and solutions.
As Tynax is connected to the marketplace, trading in patents and
technologies on a daily basis, the company is ideally placed to
determine the value of individual assets. A compelling advantage of
working with Tynax to catalog your assets is that patents, portfolios
and technologies that are made available for sale can be quickly and
easily marketed by posting them on the Tynax Exchange. Through Tynax, a
catalog can be efficiently converted to revenue-generating patent sale
and license transactions. |
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