Your patent portfolio should work for you.

Patent strategy is about more than just prosecution and enforcement. An organization’s patenting activities must be aligned with and integrated into its overall business plan if its patent portfolio is to realize its full value. A properly managed patent portfolio should generate revenue for an organization by protecting its investments, defending it against competitors, and balancing its asset maintenance costs.

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Well-managed portfolios generate value.

Patent portfolio management requires an organization to make critical and often risky decisions about how best to use its intellectual property assets to its advantage, and involves strategies such as:

Obtaining patent protection for new technologies
Extracting additional value from its existing patents
Expanding its patent portfolio through acquisition and licensing
Licensing its technologies to other organizations
Selling or abandoning assets that are no longer valuable

Clients come to Fish to build patent portfolios that work.

Fish & Richardson attorneys work with organizations of all sizes to develop robust patent portfolios that will deliver value back to their businesses. We work with each client to understand their business plan and then devise a uniquely tailored patent strategy that will help push that plan forward. Once we develop a client’s patent portfolio, we then monitor its success and frequently review its assets to ensure that they continue to serve the client’s goals.

A strong patent portfolio can:

Safeguard product lines
Generate revenue
Prevent or delay competitors from market entry
Be used offensively against infringers
Enhance value for investors
Protect R&D investments
Strengthen bargaining positions
Diversify IP assets to minimize risk
Improve access to non-dilutive capital
Create opportunities for cross-licensing

We know the law, the technology, and the market.

Throughout our over 140-year history, we have seen it all. There are very few legal, technical, or commercial issues that we have not navigated. The benefit of our extraordinary hindsight is that we can anticipate industry trends rather than merely react to them, keeping our clients’ patent portfolios one step ahead of their competitors’.