Strategic Patenting & Portfolio Management

Speculative Investment:

How can I maximize the return in value from my inventing activities?

TPL works with inventors and creative thinkers to predict the direction of technology while at the same time generating robust disclosures that can be mined for claims in a multitude of next generations. As a result, TPL has been able to consistently develop claims and disclosures that have been shown to capture near-term valuable technologies. For an investor client, witnessing a claim chart grow along with a set of freshly filed claims is an assuring sight.

Blocking:

I want my inventions to have varied applications. Who can help?

When the invention has good coverage, a competitor’s design around is difficult, costly, or impractical. TPL can rapidly and efficiently mine, document, and generate ideas from not only engineers and researchers, but also from product managers, members of the sales force, and executives. The results are numerous disclosures and potential inventions that TPL drafts and organizes for subsequent processing.

Claim Development:

Will significant effort be focused around the claims?
 
 
Once TPL has collected invention disclosures, our analysts evaluate which are likely to be considered the most novel and result in broad and potentially valuable patent claims. TPL creates a filing strategy which frequently allows a single specification to support multiple sets of claims, thus significantly reducing patent development costs while providing maximum coverage of an inventive concept.

Portfolio Pruning:

Which assets in my portfolio are best left abandoned?
 
 
TPL will carefully examine your portfolio to determine which assets can be safely abandoned without impacting the overall value of the portfolio. Statistically, the vast majority of patents will not provide economic value to the patent holder. By trimming assets, the overall cost of maintaining a portfolio can be greatly reduced without incurring risk.