Avanci is an independent provider of patent licensing solutions, working at the intersection of different industries to bring efficiency, convenience, and predictability to the licensing process.

Avanci Vehicle has programs for 3/4G and 3/4/5G connected vehicles, with essential patents from dozens of patent owners licensed in a single transaction at fixed rates, paid once for the lifetime of the vehicle. Avanci Aftermarket provides solutions for connected automotive aftermarket products, and Avanci IoT offers programs for smart utility meters, connected EV chargers, and more.

Avanci Broadcast offers a one-stop license for devices using the ATSC 3.0 / NEXTGEN TV broadcast standard, and Avanci Video offers a single, comprehensive license for internet streaming providers covering the latest video technologies.

Avanci Solutions provides tailored solutions for industries and technologies without existing open platforms, expanding Avanci services to new sectors using its unique expertise to help companies across key industries meet their evolving licensing needs.

Burford Capital is a leading global finance and investment management firm focused on law. Its businesses include litigation finance, risk management, asset recovery and a wide range of legal finance and advisory activities. Burford is publicly traded on the London Stock Exchange and works with firms and clients around the world from its principal offices in New York, London, Chicago, Washington, Singapore and Sydney.

Burford has an experienced team dedicated to making IP investments, most of whom have been repeatedly recognised in the IAM Strategy 300.

Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP is one of the world’s largest IP law firms, practising all aspects of patent, trademark, copyright and trade secret law. More than 300 of Finnegan’s legal professionals have degrees in scientific disciplines, more than 225 are registered to practise before the USPTO and nearly 40 are former USPTO patent examiners. Finnegan delivers sophisticated legal strategies to help clients to protect, advocate and leverage their valuable IP assets, with technical expertise in virtually every industry and technology – including automotive, biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, life sciences, chemicals, electronics, semiconductors, computers and software, industrial manufacturing, consumer products, medical devices, clean energy and renewables, robotics and 3D printing.

Finnegan also represents clients on IP issues relating to international trade, portfolio management, the Internet, e-commerce, government contracts, antitrust, European patents and trademarks and unfair competition. The attorneys in its European office have active practices at both the EPO and the USPTO and possess a keen understanding of the diversity of laws and practices among the European national systems. This knowledge of the European legal system and how it differs from that in the United States allows Finnegan’s European attorneys to effectively counsel both European and US clients on the full range of IP issues.

McKool Smith’s litigators leverage their courtroom prowess, technical skills, and business acumen to guide clients through their most complex business challenges and opportunities. When it comes to IP disputes, McKool Smith’s courtroom track record is unrivaled. Along with a formidable defense practice, the firm has secured billions of dollars in settlements, licensing agreements, and verdicts for a who’s who list of IP innovators and industry leaders. The firm has won more VerdictSearch “Top 100 Verdicts” than any other law firm, enjoying unparalleled success in cutting-edge IP matters including disputes involving SEP and FRAND licensing terms. The firm also has a stellar track record before the ITC and PTAB. Along with IP disputes, McKool Smith represents clients in commercial litigation, bankruptcy, insurance recovery, and white collar matters.

RPX Corporation is the leading patent risk management platform, offering defensive buying, acquisition syndication, patent intelligence and advisory services. Since its founding in 2008, RPX has introduced efficiency to the patent market by providing a rational alternative to litigation. The San Francisco-based company’s pioneering approach combines principal capital, deep patent expertise and client contributions to generate enhanced patent buying power. By acquiring patents and patent rights, RPX helps to mitigate and manage patent risk for its growing client network.

As of March 31, 2024 RPX had invested over $4B to acquire rights to more than 200,000 US and international patent assets on behalf of more than 450 clients in eight key sectors: automotive, consumer electronics and PCs, e-commerce and software, financial services, media content and distribution, mobile communications and devices, networking, and semiconductors.

Simmons & Simmons LLP strive to provide certainty and comfort to their clients that they are in control of not only the budget and cost but also the timing. The processes, tools, technology and training they have in place enable this to happen across the whole business. Giving their clients confidence that the advice they receive will be of the highest quality no matter where they work with them

Via Licensing Alliance is the collaborative licensing leader, dedicated to accelerating global technology adoption, fostering participation, and generating return on innovation with balanced licensing solutions for innovators and manufacturers of all sizes around the globe. Via has operated dozens of licensing programs for a variety of technologies consisting of nearly 25,000 patents in over 130 countries with more than 100 patent holders and nearly 10,000 licensees. Via is an independently managed subsidiary of Dolby Laboratories, Inc., owned by industry-leading participants with over 25 years of intellectual property licensing leadership.

Access Advance LLC is an independent licensing administrator company formed to lead the development, administration, and management of patent pools for licensing essential patents of the most important video codec technologies. Access Advance provides a transparent and efficient licensing mechanism for both patent owners and patent implementers.

Access Advance manages and administers the HEVC Advance Patent Pool for licensing over 29,000 patents essential to HEVC/H.265 technology and the VVC Advance Patent Pool for licensing over 4,500 patents essential to VVC/H.266 technology. The company's Multi-Codec Bridging Agreement provides eligible licensees with a single discounted royalty rate structure for licensees participating in both the HEVC Advance and VVC Advance pools. In addition, Access Advance offers the Video Distribution Patent Pool, a comprehensive licensing solution for video streaming services covering HEVC, VVC, VP9, and AV1 codecs. Access Advance has also acquired the administrator of Via LA’s HEVC/VVC patent pool, now named the VCL Advance (Video Codec Licensing) program.

Adeia invents, develops and licenses fundamental innovations that shape the way millions of people explore and experience entertainment in an increasingly connected world. From TVs to smartphones, and across all types of entertainment experiences, Adeia’s technologies allow users to manage content and connections in a way that is smart, immersive and personal. For more information, please visit adeia.com.

Bristows are a European headquartered hub for litigation, transactions and advice throughout the world and have remained fiercely independent since they first began in 1837. This means they are free to partner with the best people in any jurisdiction for each client need, or work with your existing relationships. They don’t work to billing targets. This ensures you get the right combination of experts working as one, who take the time to share their different perspectives and find the right answer, no matter how difficult or novel the question is. It’s a rare approach that defines the quality of our advice. And because they like to recruit inquisitive minds, many with science and technology backgrounds, they live and breathe your business, can talk the same language and have a keen eye on the future. They enjoy getting to the heart of the matter with advice that is simple to understand and easy to use.

At Daniel Law, commitment to clients is the cornerstone of everything that the firm does, especially when it comes to helping protect a client’s most powerful business tool – intellectual property.

Since 1959, Daniel has built relationships based on strong ethical values, legal expertise and the insight needed to anticipate and act proactively on opportunities for its clients. Recognized as one of the best IP law firms in Brazil and awarded Most Innovative Program for Employee Mental Health and Well-being by Chambers and Partners, Daniel is an exciting, forward-thinking organization that understands how innovation and creativity influence business.

Docket Navigator is a litigation research and analytics platform that delivers deep insights into US federal patent, trademark, copyright, antitrust, securities and trade secret litigation. Based in Texas, Docket Navigator’s unique and innovative approach to modeling court cases in a digital platform has made it a must-have tool for patent litigators in the US, including over 16,000 attorneys, judges, clerks, litigation support firms, expert witness firms, tech companies and researchers. Docket Navigator delivers insights to its subscribers via a daily email called the Docket Report, customised daily alerts, a searchable online database, and powerful analytics tools. Eighty-eight of the AmLaw 100 firms, and 28 of the top 30 ‘busiest’ patent litigation firms (based on the number of patent cases filed each year) maintain subscriptions to Docket Navigator.

Dolby Laboratories advances the science of sight and sound to create and enable spectacular experiences. Through breakthrough research in science and engineering, Dolby transforms sights and sounds into spectacular experiences.
They bring their innovations to people through collaborative partnerships that include artists, businesses and consumers worldwide. With their partners they deliver vivid experiences in the cinema, at home and on the go – experiences so lifelike that people feel as if they have been transported into a cinematic story or a pulsing sphere of music, a distant conference room or an action-packed game.

In both entertainment and communications, through audio and imaging, they give everyone the power to see, hear and feel the spectacular.

Ericsson enables communications service providers to capture the full value of connectivity. It has a strong commitment to R&D, with substantial contributions to cutting-edge standards and technologies. As a result, Ericsson has the industry’s leading cellular patent portfolio, and a total of more than 54,000 granted patents worldwide – covering 2G, 3G and 4G/LTE technologies. Ericsson is the main driver of industry standardisation for 5G, delivering benefits of telephony and mobile broadband to billions of people around the world.

Fortress Investment Group LLC is a leading, highly diversified global investment manager with approximately $46.2 billion(1) of assets under management as of September 30, 2023. Founded in 1998, Fortress manages assets on behalf of over 1,900 institutional clients and private investors worldwide across a range of credit and real estate, private equity and permanent capital investment strategies.
Investment performance is their cornerstone - they strive to generate strong risk adjusted returns for their investors over the long term.
They had approximately 926 employees and 211 investment professionals as of September 30, 2023, at their headquarters in New York and their affiliate offices around the globe.

Greenblum & Bernstein (G&B) is a leading intellectual property (IP) law firm dedicated to protecting and advancing innovation around the globe. Located near Washington, DC, and with decades of experience, G&B provides strategic counselling to enterprises large and small in patents, trademarks, copyrights, and related IP matters. G&B represents clients in all aspects and stages of IP protection, including procurement, licensing, and litigation. With a particular focus on patent and trademark law, G&B helps secure and defend IP rights for both domestic and international clients to chemical, biotech, mechanical, electrical, pharmaceutical, telecommunications, and other technologies.

Haley Guiliano LLP is a boutique international IP law firm located in the US (Silicon Valley and New York City) and Europe (headquartered in London). HG is emerging as the strategic IP legal service provider of choice because our clients appreciate that we can coordinate tasks between these two significant jurisdictions, excelling in a value-driven environment to deliver results that truly add to the bottom line. At the core of HG is exceptional strategically focused patent prosecution services. HG has a reputation, and body of experience, in positioning clients’ IP portfolios to best suit their needs. This can involve oversight of the patent lifecycle, ringfencing key innovation, minimizing ongoing cost in light of commercial developments, and identifying/mitigating threats from third parties. HG helps its clients to extract maximum value from an IP portfolio, enabling IP spend to be regarded as a true investment and not just a cost.

Han Kun is a leading full-service law firm in China. Over the years, Han Kun has been widely recognized as a leader in complex cross-border and domestic transactions and compliance matters.

Their main practice areas include private equity, mergers and acquisitions, international and domestic capital markets, investment funds, asset management, compliance, banking and finance, aviation finance, foreign direct investment, antitrust/competition, data protection, private client/wealth management, intellectual property, bankruptcy and restructuring and dispute resolution.

They have over 800 professionals located in Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Hong Kong, Haikou, Wuhan, Singapore and New York City.

Their lawyers are graduates of top universities and have extensive experience in complex cross-border transactions and dispute resolution as counsel to both Chinese and foreign clients.

HGF Ltd is one of Europe’s largest firms of IP specialists. The firm is one of only a few to offer a fully integrated IP solution, bringing together over 200 patent attorneys, trademark attorneys and IP solicitors to provide a full-service IP solution. The firm has 22 offices throughout Europe.

HGF is able to provide expert guidance in the life sciences, pharmaceuticals and healthcare fields. With one of the UK’s largest teams of specialist attorneys and solicitors in these fields, HGF has a wealth of experience providing clients with practical, legal and strategic advice on managing their IP. From protecting cutting-edge new innovations for leading research groups and institutions, to high-profile oppositions and litigation on market leading products, HGF offers a full suite of services for organisations from drafting and prosecution, to freedom to operate, litigation, due diligence and advice on IP strategy, agreements and licensing.

Founded in 1987, Huawei is a leading global provider of information and communications technology (ICT) infrastructure and smart devices. Huawei has 207,000 employees and operates in over 170 countries and regions, serving more than three billion people around the world.
Huawei's mission is to bring digital to every person, home and organisation for a fully connected, intelligent world. To this end, Huawei will drive ubiquitous connectivity and promote equal access to networks to lay the foundation for the intelligent world; provide diversified computing power to deliver ubiquitous cloud and intelligence; build powerful digital platforms to help all industries and organizations become more agile, efficient, and dynamic; redefine user experience with AI, offering consumers a more personalized and intelligent experience across all scenarios, including home, travel, office, entertainment, and fitness & health

Intellectual Ventures (IV) is a global invention and investment business that buys, licenses and sells patents – providing some of the world’s most innovative companies with access to IP, while creating a wide range of technology-focused partnerships and new companies. Led by avid inventor and technology leader Nathan Myhrvold, IV has created more than 15 companies with the power to transform industries. At the edge of technological advances that serve both the developed and developing world, IV works with many of the world’s top inventors to push innovation forward.

IPValue has provided IP management to major technology enterprises since 2001. They contribute a wealth of industry knowledge to tailored relationships that help their partners meet to their business goals. They work with high-quality patents owned by leading innovative organisations and developers of premium IP. Partners appreciate their thoughtful and long-term outlook, their ‘litigate last’ philosophy and the fact that their engagements become a perfect fit. They are committed to obtaining fair value for their partners’ IP and have delivered more than $1 billion in cash to patent owners from their activities to date – largely thanks totheirpeople-first approach and deep passion for innovation.

Licks Attorneys is a top-tier 350 people Brazilian firm, recognized for successfully handling large and strategic high-tech litigation, policy making, regulatory, counselling and prosecution projects in the country.

The firm´s experience on ICT SEPs go back to the 20th century, litigating invalidity, and adjudication of SEPs covering CCITT´s switching and signaling (over R2/MFC and System 7), deployments of ISDN in Brazil, and the monetization of Philips and Sony´s “Orange Book” standards on recordable compact disc (CD-R) and rewriteable compact disc (CD-RW). The firm successfully litigated the largest SEP case to reach Brazilian courts to this date, over the Calling Line Identification Presentation (CLIP) function, known as “caller-ID”.

Today, Licks Attorneys´ ICT practice group is the leading and most experienced in Brazil, representing SEP owners with a 97% success rate on about 20 preliminary injunctions against hold-out by unwilling licensees. Since 2011, the firm has successfully worked against every single IP anti-suit injunction targeting Brazil.

Licks Attorneys is the SEP go-to firm in Brazil, the only one with a proven track of success - spanning over several decades - implementing a pro patent agenda and the enforcement of SEP in the country.

Nokia creates the technology to connect the world. They develop and deliver the industry’s only end-to-end portfolio of network equipment, software, services and licensing that is available globally. Their customers include communications service providers whose combined networks support 6.1 billion subscriptions, as well as enterprises in the private and public sectors that use our network portfolio to increase productivity and enrich lives.

Their valuable IP portfolio spans more than 20,000 patent families, built from more than €126 billion invested in research and development over the past two decades. With active licensing programmes, including for mobile phone, automotive and consumer electronics markets, they have more than 100 licensees.

Pretium is a specialized investment manager with ~$51.8 billion in assets under management as of June 30, 2023, focused on real estate, mortgage finance, and corporate debt.
They look for paradigm shifts driven by demographics, public policy, market structure or technology that lead to opportunities in residential or corporate credit. Their leaders and senior professionals have decades of experience building and managing large-scale real estate and credit businesses.

Qualcomm relentlessly innovates to deliver intelligent computing everywhere, helping the world tackle some of its most important challenges. Their proven solutions drive transformation across major industries, and their Snapdragon® branded platforms power extraordinary consumer experiences. Building on their nearly 40-year leadership in setting industry standards and creating era-defining technology breakthroughs, they deliver leading edge AI, high-performance, low-power computing, and unrivalled connectivity. Together with their ecosystem partners, they enable next-generation digital transformation to enrich lives, improve businesses, and advance societies. At Qualcomm, they are engineering human progress.

Qualcomm Incorporated includes their licensing business, QTL, and the vast majority of their patent portfolio. Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., a subsidiary of Qualcomm Incorporated, operates, along with its subsidiaries, substantially all of their engineering and research and development functions and substantially all of their products and services businesses, including their QCT semiconductor business. Snapdragon and Qualcomm branded products are products of Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. and/or its subsidiaries. Qualcomm patented technologies are licensed by Qualcomm Incorporated.

RNA Law is an elite Brazilian boutique firm dedicated to intellectual property and backed by 20+ years of expertise in supporting North American, European, and Asian companies in Brazil. Since their inception, they have dedicated their efforts to assisting both large industrial groups and a diverse array of SMEs from across the globe. Their commitment is to ensure the effective protection and management of intellectual property assets, empowering clients to fully exercise their rights.

SITAO IP is a pioneering service provider in the field of IP monetisation, delivering comprehensive IP solutions in China with a particular focus on patent monetisation. The firm provides top-notch service from technical, legal, and business perspectives as required for successful licensing, transaction, and litigation. SITAO’s team of seasoned professionals excels in handling patent disputes, FRAND/SEP negotiations, and patent monetisation programs involving advanced technologies. With extensive experience and a proven track record, SITAO is dedicated to maximizing the value of clients’ patent assets. At SITAO, they firmly believe that great innovation should be respected and rewarded. It’s SITAO’s mission to help clients “Attaining True Value of Great IP".

Taylor Wessing is a global law firm that serves the world's most innovative people and businesses. Deeply embedded within their sectors, they work closely together with our clients to crack complex problems, enabling ideas and aspirations to thrive. They challenge expectation and create extraordinary results.

Tech+IP multidisciplinary teams roll up their sleeves and call on their deep deal experience to invent strategies that solve tough challenges, and then help clients execute those strategies in the market, generating tangible value. They provide full-spectrum monetisation, capital formation and advisory services, all focused on deriving value from your Tech+IP. They approach each client interaction with a 10-year view and ask themselves ‘how can they consistently provide smart value, creative ideas and workable solutions for this client?’.

Tech+IP Capital specialises in using a unique mix of deep industry knowledge, Wall Street banking experience and large-scale IP monetisation track records to create bespoke solutions for assets whose value are not best measured by EBITDA or DCF. With their depth of technical and IP expertise, they assess the intrinsic financial value of intangible assets and design tradeable monetisation strategies to fit client needs. Their team has a long history of successfully executing Tech+IP M&A transactions and structured financings through changing market conditions. They have advised clients on more than 150 projects and in the past five years alone have helped clients create over $6 billion in market value.

Their sister company, Tech+IP Advisory, is rooted in high-tech innovations, industry standards and IP and market analysis. Their team advises company management, boards and other stakeholders on how to identify and realise value from their Tech+IP assets. The technical, IP and market expertise of the team includes fields such as wireless communications, semiconductors, medical devices, networking and cloud, Internet of Things, digital media, audio and video coding, consumer electronics, and internet search and social networking.

VALE Insurance Partners (VALE) is a managing general agency that focuses on writing specialty property & casualty insurance and placing the risk with sponsoring insurance carriers. We help insurers by providing the technical expertise needed to access unique and specialized markets in a safe and cost-effective manner. VALE, in conjunction with highly-rated insurance carriers, delivers superior service to brokers and clients needing effective solutions to complex risks.
The underwriting team has the authority to quote, bind, and manage complex insurance products on behalf of our insurance partners. We provide intellectual property coverage in the context of (i) Representation and Warranty Insurance in M&A transactions, (ii) Collateral Protection Insurance in the context of an IP-backed loan, and (iii) Contingent Liability Insurance covering litigation outcomes, including in the context of a judgment.

Vossius & Brinkhof is a Netherlands-based European law firm with a strong focus on innovation, technology and market regulation. They assist global and domestic clients operating in sectors such as electronics, IT, media, internet, telecommunications, pharma/biotech and the healthcare sector. Within those markets, they advise and litigate before European and domestic courts and regulatory authorities in matters concerning patents, copyrights, trademarks and designs; as well as product, market and speech regulation, competition, IT/outsourcing, copyright, media and privacy. They have a single main office in Amsterdam but bring a truly European and global outlook, working extensively with international clients and law firms.

Wildanger, one of Germany’s most prominent intellectual property firms, is known for its drive and extraordinarily high standards of quality; for years, it is and has been ranked by leading publications as top tier law firm for patent litigation.

The firm’s nine partners, Peter-Michael Weisse, Eva Geschke, Jörg Schmidt, Dr. Soenke Fock, Jasper Meyer zu Riemsloh, Dr. Alexander Reetz, Ole Dirks, Dr. Alexander Wiese, Dr. Eva Maria Thörner and the Of Counsels Dr. Roland Kehrwald and Wolf Graf von Schwerin, have many years of experience in the area of intellectual property law. Together, they have firmly established Wildanger Kehrwald Graf von Schwerin & Partners as a leading firm in this field, making it the first choice for intellectual property litigation and advice among national and international clients of all sizes.