Merged Entities Investment and Portfolio Over Time Another question is “is the target company increasing their technology investment versus competition?” The answer to this question can be visualized in the “Merged Entities Investment and Portfolio Over Time” figure. In this figure number of patents and applications filed and issued for companies of interest [...]
Merged Portfolios’ Patent Velocity The next question is “what is the development intensity and velocity within the acquired company”. This question can be answered by graphing the number of patents in the merged company’s portfolio versus either years to expiration or by year, shown in the “Merged Portfolios’ Patent Velocity” figure. In this [...]
Thematic Map of the Merger’s Assignees’ Portfolios Yet another way to look at how technology and products are related and distributed among competitors can be shown in the “Thematic Map of the Merger’s Assignees’ Portfolios” figure. In this figure the thematic map is used to plot patents according to the subject matter they [...]
Technologies in a Merger’s Patent Portfolio Another way to view the same information is to use a pie chart. Although this does not show the individual companies contributions it can show the merged company’s core technologies. When compared to the strategic intent of the merger, it identifies technologies to build upon, and which [...]
Technologies in a Merger’s Patent Portfolio The first question on the list is ”is there technology synergy in the merger?” This can be answered by use of a radar chart of the IPC or US class codes of the proposed merged companies. This is one way to see the technology overlap and synergy [...]
After target licensors have been identified, the organization should prepare proposal binders customized to the technology or intellectual property to be licensed from the target license or. The proposal binders may include the following sections: a brief description of the organization and its licensing initiative; a high-level description of technology and/or intellectual property [...]
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