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With business environments becoming increasingly more complex, being able to effectively refine, leverage and protect a company’s IP investment is invaluable for capitalizing on immediate opportunities and long-term initiatives. As a corporate executive, you need instant and reliable access to the vital information impacting your strategic IP decisions in order to:
- Facilitate team collaboration
- Enhance organizational decision making
- Improve productivity and workflow
- Comply with financial and legal policies
- Drive measurable ROI and profitability
Enforcing, defending and managing a company’s IP portfolio and assets can be challenging even at the best of times. As an IP legal counselor, having access to essential tools, information and resources to generate reliable results for achieving your business objectives is paramount, whether you are conducting:
- Patent invalidations
- Expert witness searches
- Freedom to operate analyses
- M&A transactions
- Patent filings
As an inventor, you know the complexities of validating the novelty and patentability of your ideas – balancing both the research and innovation with the communication of the patent process. The ability to effectively formulate, validate and share your ideas is an important part of having them evolve from conception into reality, whether you want to:
- Explore the state of the art
- Find innovative solutions
- Assess emerging opportunities
- Share data and concepts
- Engage with knowledge experts
Really manage your intellectual property
Do you manually inventory your worldwide patents? How do you integrate a new acquisition into your portfolio? Can you map IP by lines of business or patents to products? How do you determine when to renew and when to remove patents from your portfolio?
Innography automatically normalizes patent information for each company across multiple patent offices. By eliminating spelling mistakes, tracking patent assignments, and updating with mergers and acquisitions, our software platform provides a complete view of a company’s portfolio preloaded, reducing manual entry and human error. Using APIs, Innography also is able to integrate with internal repositories and systems to manage disclosures, private patent information and other data behind corporate walls.
With Innography’s unified view of all corporate patents, our visualizations and algorithms can segment portfolios by line of business, help map patents to products and identify maintenance issues. Innography also has developed special IP management algorithms, including:
- Map a corporate portfolio by line of business
- Identify and evaluate patents up for maintenance renewal
- Map patents to products and monitor accordingly
Exploit your intellectual property to derive maximum revenue
How do you find emerging, and potentially hidden, opportunities? Can you easily identify, monitor and assess competitor IP activity? How do you evaluate merger and acquisition candidates?
Innography correlates patents with corporate financial records and key industry data. By incorporating additional data sources, users have the ability to view patents by industry codes, filter by revenues and quickly narrow results using other metrics. With intuitive business visualizations, Innography can graphically depict meaningful financial, competitive, licensing and other business landscapes.
To streamline research, Innography also has multiple algorithms to reduce manual processing and analysis for IP exploitation, including:
- Inventory, map and assess competitive landscapes of merger and acquisition candidates
- Map emerging landscapes in a particular industry
- Find potential companies to target for licensing of a particular patent
- Identify potential “gems” inside corporate intellectual property portfolios
- Graphically map cross-licensing issues of large patent portfolios
Assert and defend your intellectual property
Do you know who is potentially infringing on your patents? If you were litigated against, do you know which of your patents could be used for a counter suit? Do you spend a lot of time trying to invalidate patents? What is your risk exposure by line of business?
IP litigation is a significant threat to any company as lawsuits continue to increase. Innography correlates IP litigation data with patents to get a complete view of trends and threats. Our correlation includes statistics by company and industry for win/loss records, trial lengths, penalties and other patent litigation information. Innography provides a complete view of patents for litigation purposes - both offensive and defensive - in order to support key decisions and substantially reduce associated costs.
In order to reduce time sorting through results, Innography also has algorithms to reduce manual processing for IP protection, including:
- Identify potential infringers of a single patent or an entire portfolio
- Find corporate patents related to a lawsuit to use in filing counter claims
- Identify potential invalidating patents that pre-date a plaintiff’s patent
- Identify potential hot spots for IP litigation
Design an intellectual property strategy solidifying your position
What is your risk exposure? How do you respond to investor questions about product liability, financial accounting, licensing revenues and other patent matters? Are you confident you are adequately protecting your IP? Do you have processes and controls in place to manage all aspects of your patents?
By having a complete view of patents with correlated financial, litigation and other key business data, Innography is able to help address difficult questions asked by management and investors about corporate IP. Instead of relying on stale research and inconsistent data, Innography provides real-time executive dashboards, compliance checklists and other tools to support more confident, informed decisions.
With tighter regulations placed on corporations and increased executive responsibility, companies need to protect their IP investment. As employees go to competitors or lawsuits go to trial, Innography can help track, monitor and protect internal IP information. With management controls and internal metrics, executives can be more confident in the security of their intellectual property.
Some key IP strategy features include:
- Executive dashboards with key internal and competitor metrics
- Checklists to assess corporate compliance
As a licensing professional, your ultimate quest is to discover, assess and secure the best intellectual property avenues for maximizing business profits and return on investment. The ability to efficiently, reliably and effectively conduct licensing activities is paramount to your success, whether you are focused on:
- Sourcing valuable patent in licensing opportunities
- Out licensing core patents to alternative markets
- Determining licensing channels for non-core patents
- Asserting segments of your patent portfolio
Patent research can involve a myriad of activities intended to support the development and management of a company’s IP portfolio. Your success as a patent researcher means having access to the right tools and the best information for generating meaningful results, whether you are tasked with:
- Trend analysis
- Patent disclosure and prior art research
- Emerging business evaluation
- Competitive intelligence
- M&A due diligence
- Infringement / Invalidation discovery
Innography enables companies to quickly extract valuable insights for managing, protecting and exploiting their patent portfolios. Through a unique business intelligence analytics software platform, Innography streamlines manual IP-related tasks by giving instant access to reliable and vital data that drives measurable and meaningful results.
“IP-related activities can require labor intensive research and analysis, costing companies an average of more than $100,000 over the lifespan of each patent. Innography reduces the total cost of ownership by 40%, effectively lowering associated risks while optimizing new opportunities.”
Innography goes beyond search to help perform job-specific tasks. With our correlation and visualization technology, Innography is the only company able to integrate patents (internal and public) with key business information, such as financial, litigation and market data.
Using this 360 degree view of information, we have over a dozen job-specific algorithms to enable tasks such as patent disclosure and prior art research, freedom to operate analyses, inventory maintenance, competitive assessments, gem finding and many others.
Innography then ties everything together by integrating people, processes and perspectives. Our collaboration features provide workflow and project management to coordinate efforts from every perspective.
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