Licensing
Evaluate your own portfolio and others for the right licensing opportunities.
Evaluate the potential of any patent portfolio and identify the individual patents which are most attractive for licensing.
Most patenting strategies include licensing as a key strategy for monetization or for risk mitigation. Having up to date patent analytics that enable you to evaluate the right patents for licensing or partners to license from is key.
Navigate the world of Standard Essential Patents with LexisNexis® IPlytics
Leverage transparent and accessible data for SEPs, Technical standards, and contribution data analysis to ensure the success of your patent portfolio
Are you asking yourself these questions?
How can I identify patents for monetization?
How can I identify partners to cross licence with?
How can I navigate the licenses I need within standard essential patents?
How to approach patent licensing
How can LexisNexis PatentSight+ transform your Licensing Strategy ?
LexisNexis Intellectual Property Solutions enables you to make high- value strategic decisions so you can develop your licensing strategy to reduce risk and maximise monetization options. Accelerate your licensing strategy through:
Data Quality
& Coverage
To address the challenges with patent data quality, including incomplete owner information and ambiguous legal status.
Get more accurate insights by incorporating multiple data types that have been rigorously cleansed, quality checked and enriched.
Actionable
Insights
To more efficiently navigate the complexities of IP and move beyond tactical management of patent portfolios.
Increase depth and speed to insights through powerful AI-driven analytical capabilities and proprietary metrics.
Impactful Visualizations & Communication Tools
To eliminate the perception of IP as a cost center and better communicate its value to the business.
Optimize workflows, boost efficiency, and elevate IP awareness and storytelling through powerful visualization tools.
How top professionals use LexisNexis® IPlytics
SEP licensors
- Align your standards development, patent prosecution, patent portfolio management, and licensing/monetarization strategy to file valid and essential patents and to commercialize SEPs in worldwide licensing campaigns.
- Value and benchmark your SEP portfolio for cross-license negotiations and monitor competition.
- Examine competitors’ standards development investments and identify new standards initiatives to maintain leading positions in standards development.
Patent portfolio managers
- Identify the strengths and weaknesses of your SEP portfolios and benchmark it against your competitors.
- Measure and track your market share for standards such as 4G, 5G, Wi-Fi, video codec (HEVC/VVC), and many more.
- Support keeps/kills decisions to further develop your SEP portfolio.
Licensing executives & Dealmakers
- Value your SEP portfolio to weed out ‘weaker’ patents, focusing resources on higher-ranked patents.
- Find gold nuggets in your portfolio to identify patents to license or sell.
- Monitor the market and track ownership changes and litigation trends.
SEP licensees
- Value and determine SEP portfolios offered for license. Prepare for FRAND negotiation and identify the numerator and denominator to measure patent holders’ market share.
- Identify standards subject to SEPs in the complex product value chain of suppliers.
- Monitor SEP filing, SEP change of ownership, and litigation to quantify risks and plan royalty payments.
- Identify industry-related (e.g. V2X, NB-IoT, M2M) standards initiatives to have a seat at the table when future connectivity technology is developed.
Licensing managers & Legal divisions
- Identify the market share of patents offered for licensing-in technologies.
- Get access to objective data to consider for FRAND preparation, negotiations, and argument formulation.
- Understand if the offered SEP portfolio is “essential”.
Strategic IP attorneys
- Identify SEPs that are relevant to your products.
- Identify leading patent owners and share of patents licensed in patent pools.
- Understand the risk to be litigated in your market.
Customer Success Stories
Learn how our customers use advanced data and analytics to improve their IP outcomes.
How PatentSight® Data Analysis Helps Han Santos Become a True Partner and Strategic Advisor to its Clients
Han Santos helps its clients advance their business objectives by protecting, maximizing and leveraging their IP assets.
How a Global Science and Tech Company Assists Their Sustainability Strategy With IP
Discover how Merck KGaA utilizes LexisNexis® PatentSight® to measure and disclose the sustainability impact of its intellectual property by aligning its core business activities with the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals.
Increasing Patent Portfolio Strength and Patent Income at Siemens
Learn how Siemens leverages LexisNexis® PatentSight® to increase their patent portfolio strength and patent income.
How a Consulting Firm Uses IP Landscape Analysis to Strengthen Its Clients’ Business Strategies
By leveraging trusted IP data for an IP landscape analysis from LexisNexis® PatentSight®, Perl IP provides clients with an innovation edge.
Businesses that put their trust in IPlytics
FAQs
How can I identify patents for monetization?
Through identifying high quality patents and where they map onto others portfolios which can all be done in PatentSight+
How can I identify partners to cross licence with?
By mapping out your competitors and identifying gaps in their portfolio and strengths in yours you can identify ideal partners
How can I navigate the licenses I need within standard essential patents?
Have high quality accurate data on standards and the patents that read onto the standard is key. LexisNexis® IPlytics is the most accurate source of data
How can I negotiate a fair licensing deal?
Understand your negotiating range and what achieving a deal would bring either in terms of monetization or risk mitigation
How can I quantify the benefits of a licensing deal?
Quantifying the value of doing a deal versus not doing the deal will enable a clear Return on Investment
Unlock the true value of your portfolio
Learn how to profit from quality patent analysis.
We would love to get to know you and show you some invaluable insights into the IP landscape:
- Let’s have a conversation about your current priorities in IP analytics.
- Get an external view of your portfolio.
- Learn how others see you and survey other market players from a new perspective.
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More use cases enabled by patent analytics
Become more effective at managing your patent portfolio, identify worldwide relevant patents and technology trends, assess the competitive landscape, and find partners and licensing opportunities.
R&D and innovation
Improve innovation with a clearly defined IP strategy that is connected to the business goals and alerts for new entrants and potential partners.
Competitive
intelligence & benchmarking
Base decision making on true patent portfolio strength and quality indicators while relying on industry-proven KPIs to track your competitors’ progress.
Portfolio optimization
Answer key questions to define international patent filing strategy, increase portfolio efficiency and identify competitive strengths and weaknesses.
Disruptive technology scouting
Identify disruptive innovations and promising startups with patent analytics to help you gain a competitive edge.
Risk assessment
Stay one step ahead of your competition, disruptive technologies, important patent activity in China and/or NPE threats. Efficiently assess the value or risk of acquisition targets.