Was 2023 a good year for the patent market? We are torn. When we wrote the first draft of this year's report, the data looked gloomy. But then when we dug deeper and realised that the last year turned out not be too bad.

Two deals could bring NPE risk but others stem from bankruptcies, buying and selling of business units and company product collaborations

What do you do to monetise an IP portfolio when you don’t know where to start? That’s a question that patent portfolio managers might face when their executives want to know what the patent monetisation options are when a business winds down.

How do you set and execute a patent strategy for a high-growth, pre-revenue, technology company? That was the challenge the TuSimple team faced soon after the company was founded in 2015.

In this article, we present various strategies and best practices the firm’s team implemented. In some instances, the team made solid initial choices; in other cases, they adapted to sea changes in response to the business and the market. Overall, TuSimple picked a path that allowed for flexibility and adaptability that enabled a competitive patent portfolio.

Our 2018 brokered market report was printed in the recent IAM Magazine January/February issue. As we have reported previously, 2018 saw a general uptick in the market.

Since we started tracking the secondary patent market in 2011, we have identified more than $5.3 billion worth of sold patent assets and seen more than $16.7 billion worth of patent assets offered to the market. That's a lot of deals being brought to the market on a regular basis and many of the opportunities come from brokers.

With a way to quickly model the value of a patent purchase, we can have a higher quality discussion about the various assumptions that were made, and as we bring multiple purchases to our boss and use the same model, the decision process will be more consistent.

Five years since IAM Market was launched, analysis by Hannes Forssberg Malm and Erik Oliver of Richardson Oliver Insights shows that assets listed on the platform have been put to good use by those who acquire them.

Just how much device makers are on the hook for in patent licensing payouts is one of the most debated questions in the IP community. While a complete answer may remain elusive, an analytical approach can help manufacturers assess their risk.

Kent Richardson evaluated Intel's Connected Devices portfolio and provided IAM with an analysis (to be published).

The Economist cites Richardson Oliver in their article about curbs on frivolous patent claims potentially encouraging infringement.

Unified Patents, the organization dedicated to deterring NPE activity and improving transparency in the patent markets, today announced the launch of a new collaboration with Richardson Oliver Insights (ROI) to provide free access to patent transaction data on more than 25,000 patent families that are For Sale and Likely Sold via the Portal, Unified’s open IP analytics platform.