Avanci was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Dallas.

Avanci’s vision is that sharing technology on a broad scale for the Internet of Things industry can be simple. Our connected world is evolving quickly and we want to help this happen even faster. Our one-stop solution keeps the success of the ecosystem in sight, bringing convenience and predictability to the technology licensing process. In our new marketplace, those with essential patents can share their innovations, and companies creating connected products for the Internet of Things can access the patented wireless technology that they need to be successful—this is all in one place, with one agreement and for one fair, flat rate.

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.
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Mayer Brown is an international law firm positioned to represent the world's major corporations, funds, and financial institutions in their most important and complex transactions and disputes. We have deep experience in high-stakes litigation and complex transactions across industry sectors, including within our signature strength, the global financial services industry. Our teams of lawyers are recognized by our clients as strategic partners with deep commercial instincts and a commitment to creatively anticipating their needs and delivering excellence in everything we do. Delivering top-level legal advice and service—seamless and integrated across all practices, products, and industries—ensures that our clients receive the best of our knowledge and experience.

Mayer Brown’s practices operate on a global basis. To respond to the unique needs of each client and each project, we build teams comprised of the best lawyers. We provide legal services in such areas as banking and finance; corporate and securities; litigation and dispute resolution; antitrust and competition; US Supreme Court and appellate matters; employment and benefits; environmental; financial services regulatory and enforcement; government and global trade; intellectual property; real estate; tax; restructuring; and private clients, trusts and estates. Our deep understanding of industry-specific issues and the newest legal developments helps us to provide the best solutions for clients wherever their businesses take them.

Sisvel is driven by a belief in the importance of collaboration, ingenuity and efficiency to bridge the needs of both patent owners and those who wish to access their technologies. In a complex and constantly evolving marketplace, their guiding principle is to create a level playing field with the development and implementation of flexible, accessible, commercialisation solutions.

They power innovation by providing tailored licensing solutions and patent pools for the delivery of world-class technologies. They work with leading companies and research institutions from across the globe to unlock the full potential of their patents, while easing technology adoption and reducing frictions from the innovation ecosystem and facilitating IP dealmaking.

Tulip Innovation Kft. is an independent patent licensing company founded to establish and manage a new program aggregating patents related to lithium-ion battery technology from LG Energy Solution and Panasonic Energy. Tulip’s program offers battery manufacturers a license under the largest aggregation of patents in the battery industry to date.

Based in Hungary, the hub of European battery manufacturing, Tulip’s mission is to collaborate with companies implementing Li-ion battery technology to ensure that their manufacturing operations have access to Tulip’s robust IP portfolio. Led by a team of licensing professionals with decades of experience, Tulip has a unique combination of strong industry connections and expertise in negotiating and administering patent licenses.

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.

Technology has revolutionised the way the modern world communicates. The legal and commercial implications are complex and rapidly-evolving – impacting every organisation. Bird & Bird has a stellar, global reputation for providing sophisticated, pragmatic advice to companies which are carving the world's digital future.

You will have access to a global team of over 500 lawyers who have spent their careers guiding many of the leading blue chip tech multinationals, as well as the next generation of game changing disrupters. Businesses like yours, which are driving forward innovation and developing some of the most cutting-edge technology in the world.

In the global digital economy, where your business's legal needs are international by default, they can offer you unsurpassed experience of advising on complex international projects. Their coordinated teams work with you to deliver seamless cross-jurisdictional advice across multiple areas of law. The connector between them is their focus on industries that are changing or being changed by technology and the digital world.

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.

We are a world leader in the rapidly changing environment of communications technology – providing equipment, software and services to enable transformation through mobility.

Some 40% of global mobile traffic runs through networks that we have supplied. More than 1 billion subscribers around the world rely every day on networks that we manage. With more than 39,000 granted patents, we have one of the industry’s strongest IP rights portfolios.

Our leadership in technology and services has been a driving force behind the expansion and improvement of connectivity worldwide. We believe that through mobility, our society can be transformed for the better. New innovations and forms of expression are finding a greater audience, industries and hierarchies are being revolutionised and we are seeing a fundamental change in the way that we communicate, socialise and make decisions together.

These exciting changes represent the realisation of our vision: a networked society, where every person and every industry is empowered to reach their full potential.

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

InterDigital unites the two main communication technologies – wireless communication and video communication – into one of the world’s largest pure research, innovation and licensing companies.

Their company’s focus is on research and development with a pervasive impact: mobile technologies that underpin smartphones, networks and services via global standards, as well as video technologies that are the foundation for today’s most popular products and services. Lots of companies bring innovations that improve a single product; but their inventions help improve every product in the markets that they participate in, from the most basic to the most advanced, transforming industries and improving products and services that are part of our daily lives.

Their track record of research and development is matched by their fair licensing practices, which are a model for the industry, and their willingness to partner with virtually anybody in developing new capabilities that will improve technology for consumers and businesses around the world.

Knobbe Martens is an agent of innovation, providing clients worldwide with forward-focused intellectual property and technology law service and representation. They are one of the largest IP law firms in the U.S., with close to 300 lawyers and scientists representing the complete spectrum of technologies and IP practice areas.

Licks Attorneys is a top-tier 300 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 93% 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.

Established in 1993 as the first private patent agency authorised to handle foreign-related patent matters in China, Liu, Shen & Associates has now become one of the largest intellectual property law firms in China. Liu, Shen & Associates provides high-quality services of patent and trademark prosecution and full-range IP-related legal services such as patent invalidation, patent infringement/administrative litigation, trademark infringement/administrative litigation, covering the technical fields of mechanics, electronics, telecommunications, chemistry and biomedicine. As one of the pioneer IP-dedicated law firms in China, Liu Shen has already filed over 100k patent and trademark applications, with the grant rate above the average level. In IP litigation field, Liu Shen has experiences of large quantity of technical cases about patent infringement, trademark infringement, and patent and trademark right administrative cases, trying the best to protect interests of clients. The firm currently has 475 staff, including 90 attorney at law, 228 patent attorneys, 64 double-qualified attorneys and 13 trademark attorneys.

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.

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP is an international law firm with a particular focus on the technology & life sciences, energy, financial, and real estate & construction sectors. Recognized as one of the most innovative law firms byFinancial Timesand one of the top firms for client service by BTI Consulting, Pillsbury and its lawyers are highly regarded for their forward-thinking approach, their enthusiasm for collaborating across disciplines and their authoritative commercial awareness.

PurpleVine IP Group, incorporated in Shenzhen, China, is a China-based, global-facing premier IP service provider, dedicated to building a bridge for international innovation collaboration and IP value realization. We provide one-stop, full-service patent solutions to our clients, covering global patent prosecution, IP analysis & consulting, IP investment, IP transaction, licensing, enforcement and dispute resolution.

PurpleVine now delivers professional services through more than 450 team members, located in 10 offices worldwide. Our professional team, all from industry-leading technology companies and top-notch international firms, have unrivalled industry insight and expertise. As an internationally integrated IP service provider with a solid footing in both law and technology, PurpleVine offers a wide selection of professional, innovative and practical solutions to effectively meet our clients’ every need.

PurpleVine's business presence is spread across major intellectual property centers in the Greater China region, including Shenzhen, Beijing, Shanghai, Wuhan, Chengdu, Suzhou, Nanjing, and Hong Kong, as well as globally active IP hubs such as the United States, Switzerland, and Japan. For more information, please click Locations.

PurpleVine IP Group is named after the wisteria plant, a vine that produces fragrant, purple flowers. Its strong, deep roots support the vine's prolific growth and allow it to endure even the most extreme weather. Like the plant, our firm's strong roots, have nourished our rapid expansion into the global IP ecosystem.

With data covering more than 300,000 patent assets and over 18000 deals spanning hundreds of technologies and market sectors, Richardson Oliver Insights is a leading provider of secondary patent market data. Located in the heart of Silicon Valley and lead by industry veterans and thought leaders, Richardson Oliver Insights has both the comprehensive patent market data and the analytical experience to help patent buyers find the right patents at the right price, help patent sellers optimize their sales offerings, and help patent strategists obtain the information to make data-driven decisions.

At Tech+IP our 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. We provide full-spectrum monetisation, capital formation and advisory services, all focused on deriving value from your Tech+IP. We approach each client interaction with a 10-year view and ask ourselves ‘how can we 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 our depth of technical and IP expertise, we assess the intrinsic financial value of intangible assets and design tradeable monetisation strategies to fit client needs. Our team has a long history of successfully executing Tech+IP M&A transactions and structured financings through changing market conditions. We 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.

Our sister company, Tech+IP Advisory, is rooted in high-tech innovations, industry standards and IP and market analysis. Our 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.

TT Consultants (www.ttconsultants.com) is an ISO 27001 and ISO 9001:2015 certified firm, providing high-quality Intellectual Property and Innovation support services. They deliver foremost patent prosecution and litigation searches, patent licensing and infringement analysis, portfolio ranking and competitor benchmarking, R&D search support activities. They offer innovative and automated solutions through various in-house developed IP tools that help companies increase their efficiency and reduce costs involved in patent prosecution and litigation matters.

They have a global presence through 5 offices worldwide in India, USA, and Taiwan, and have demonstrated their expertise to clients in more than 30 major geographies.

Their expertise across varied technology domains helps them understand their clients' key challenges, enabling them to maximize their businesses potential. Their strength lies in the exceptionally talented and experienced professionals who work 24×7, ensuring quality outputs and quick turnarounds.

They also provide other professional services like Document Review, Legal Research, Deposition Summarization, and more.

Wildanger is a top-tier patent litigation firm and one of Germany’s most prominent IP firms. For more than 50 years, Wildanger has been known for its extraordinarily high standards. Its clients include large corporations and prominent companies from Germany, the United States, and Asia. Wildanger represents companies in a broad range of industries and technologies, including telecoms, biochemistry, information technology, automotive, semiconductors, and mechanics.

Wildanger successfully represents plaintiffs and defendants in national and cross-border patent infringement proceedings. Its lawyers have vast expertise in SEP and FRAND litigation and have obtained decisions (including many injunctions) in the German courts that shaped adjudication following the European Court of Justice’s decision in Huawei v. ZTE. Wildanger also has broad experience in the assertion of patents by non-practicing entities—whether for the defendant or the plaintiff.

With innovative technologies and product solutions, ZTE serves global telecom operators, government and enterprise customers, and consumers. Covering more than 160 countries and regions, ZTE serves over 1/4 people worldwide, and is committed to achieving a bright future of connectivity and trust everywhere.