Canon
Canon is a leading technology company, founded in Japan in 1937, dedicated to helping people reimagine and push the boundaries of what is possible through imaging.
Canon employs over 170,000 people in marketing and manufacturing facilities across Japan, the Americas, Europe, Asia and Oceania. Kyosei is the corporate philosophy and lies at the heart of the brand, business and sponsorship activities. Kyosei is a Japanese word that means living and working together for the common good – a principle that is embraced by all Canon employees. It shapes the corporate mission and values, the way we treat our people and conduct our business.
Canon employs over 170,000 people in marketing and manufacturing facilities across Japan, the Americas, Europe, Asia and Oceania. Kyosei is the corporate philosophy and lies at the heart of the brand, business and sponsorship activities. Kyosei is a Japanese word that means living and working together for the common good – a principle that is embraced by all Canon employees. It shapes the corporate mission and values, the way we treat our people and conduct our business.
Syndefense, Inc.
Syndefense provides IP advisory and consulting services to companies, research institutions and individuals. The company helps its clients maximize the current value of their IP portfolios and develop strategies to strengthen their IP position for the future.
Syndefense provides strategic insight and tactical advice – in corporate activities ranging from R&D and market intelligence to M&A and financial planning – by combining its deep in-house IP expertise with a broad network of specialists that have strong track records in IP evaluation, technology mapping, market analysis, licensing/sale transactions, strategic partnering, and financial and tax planning.
The company’s clients include owners of IP, as well as purchasers, licensors and licensees. Its core philosophy in all client engagements is to support the fair utilization, protection and optimization of invention. Syndefense does not promote or engage in the monetization of IP through the litigation-centric patent assertion entity (PAE) model.
Syndefense provides strategic insight and tactical advice – in corporate activities ranging from R&D and market intelligence to M&A and financial planning – by combining its deep in-house IP expertise with a broad network of specialists that have strong track records in IP evaluation, technology mapping, market analysis, licensing/sale transactions, strategic partnering, and financial and tax planning.
The company’s clients include owners of IP, as well as purchasers, licensors and licensees. Its core philosophy in all client engagements is to support the fair utilization, protection and optimization of invention. Syndefense does not promote or engage in the monetization of IP through the litigation-centric patent assertion entity (PAE) model.
Xiaomi Corporation
Xiaomi Corporation was founded in April 2010 and listed on the Main Board of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on July 9, 2018 (1810.HK). Xiaomi is a consumer electronics and smart manufacturing company with smartphones and smart hardware connected by an IoT platform at its core.
Embracing our vision of “Make friends with users and be the coolest company in the users’ hearts”, Xiaomi continuously pursues innovations, high-quality user experience and operational efficiency. The company relentlessly builds amazing products with honest prices to let everyone in the world enjoy a better life through innovative technology.
Xiaomi is one of the world's leading smartphone companies. The company has also established the world’s leading consumer AIoT (AI+IoT) platform,reached 558 million smart devices connected to its platform (excluding smartphones,laptops and tablets) as of September 30 2022. Xiaomi products are present in more than 100 countries and regions around the world. In August 2022, Xiaomi was included in the Fortune Global 500 list for the fourth year in a row, ranking 266th. The company is the fastest-rising Chinese technology conglomerate during the four-year period.
Xiaomi is a constituent of the Hang Seng Index, Hang Seng China Enterprises Index, Hang Seng TECH Index and Hang Seng China 50 Index.
Embracing our vision of “Make friends with users and be the coolest company in the users’ hearts”, Xiaomi continuously pursues innovations, high-quality user experience and operational efficiency. The company relentlessly builds amazing products with honest prices to let everyone in the world enjoy a better life through innovative technology.
Xiaomi is one of the world's leading smartphone companies. The company has also established the world’s leading consumer AIoT (AI+IoT) platform,reached 558 million smart devices connected to its platform (excluding smartphones,laptops and tablets) as of September 30 2022. Xiaomi products are present in more than 100 countries and regions around the world. In August 2022, Xiaomi was included in the Fortune Global 500 list for the fourth year in a row, ranking 266th. The company is the fastest-rising Chinese technology conglomerate during the four-year period.
Xiaomi is a constituent of the Hang Seng Index, Hang Seng China Enterprises Index, Hang Seng TECH Index and Hang Seng China 50 Index.
Qualcomm
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.
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.
Avanci
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.
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
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.
Burford has an experienced team dedicated to making IP investments, most of whom have been repeatedly recognised in the IAM Strategy 300.
Finnegan
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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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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Kirkland & Ellis
We are an international law firm that serves a broad range of clients around the world in private equity, M&A and other complex corporate transactions; investment fund formation and alternative asset management; restructurings; high-stakes commercial and intellectual property litigation; and white collar and government disputes. We offer the highest quality legal advice coupled with extraordinary, tailored service to deliver exceptional results to our clients and help their businesses succeed. We invest in the brightest legal talent and build dynamic teams that operate at the pinnacle of their respective areas. And we believe in empowering our lawyers, encouraging entrepreneurialism, operating ethically and with integrity, and collaborating to bring our best to every engagement. These principles have guided us in building successful long-term partnerships with clients since our founding in 1909.
Mayer Brown
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.
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.
Purplevine
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.
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.
Sisvel
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.
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
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.
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.
Via Licensing Alliance
Via Licensing Corporation is a global IP solutions provider dedicated to enabling innovation in partnership with technology companies, entertainment companies, and universities around the world. Via develops and manages licensing programs on behalf of highly innovative companies in markets such as audio, wireless, broadcast, and automotive.
Access Advance
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.
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.
Allens
Allens is a leading international law firm with a long and proud heritage of shaping the future for its clients, people and the communities in which we work. The firm has played a pioneering role in the development of legislation and regulatory frameworks and, through its global alliance with Linklaters, offers a vast network of 41 offices in 26 countries. Allens is committed to bringing its talent, expertise and insights to its clients' toughest problems and creating ways forward to help them thrive.
Bird & Bird
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.
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.
Blank Rome
Blank Rome is an Am Law 100 firm with 16 offices and 800 attorneys and principals who provide comprehensive legal and advocacy services to clients operating in the United States and around the world. Our professionals have built a reputation for their leading knowledge and experience across a spectrum of industries and are recognized for their commitment to pro bono work in their communities. For more information, please visit blankrome.com.
Daniel IP
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.
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.
Divergent
Divergent Patent Law helps companies, universities, and patent firms across Asia build and protect U.S. patent portfolios. With dedicated services for Japanese, Chinese, and Korean applicants, the practice works closely with foreign associates and in-house teams to align U.S. patent strategy with global business, licensing, and enforcement objectives. Its attorneys and technical professionals bring experience in artificial intelligence, software, wireless communications, semiconductors, and medical devices. Services include patent drafting and prosecution, U.S. national stage entry, portfolio development, PTAB proceedings, reexamination, and appeals. Divergent emphasizes responsive communication, close coordination with local counsel, and predictable professional fees.
Docket Navigator
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
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.
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
Ericsson’s high-performing and programmable networks provide connectivity for billions of people every day. For 150 years, we have been pioneers in creating technology for communication. Ericsson is a leading contributor to 3GPP and to the development of global technology standards for the benefit of consumers and enterprises everywhere. The value of Ericsson’s patent portfolio of more than 60,000 granted patents is strengthened by our annual investments of more than SEK 50 b in R&D.
Huawei
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
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 Discovery
Intellectual Discovery was established in 2010 as Korea’s first intellectual property specialized company. The company has been running various IP monetization projects such as IP trade and licensing by securing IPs in major technological domains including information telecommunication, semiconductor, smart car and software, and enhancing its value.
In the past 10 years, Intellectual Discovery has invested over KRW 100 billion (100 million USD) in its efforts to become the most competitive IP business enterprise in Korea through various IP business models including IP monetization, corporate investment and IP finance.
In the past 10 years, Intellectual Discovery has invested over KRW 100 billion (100 million USD) in its efforts to become the most competitive IP business enterprise in Korea through various IP business models including IP monetization, corporate investment and IP finance.
InterDigital
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.
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.
Intralink Group
Intralink is a business development consultancy specialising in international markets. We provide a low-risk way for companies to secure customers, partners and investors overseas, corporates to innovate through global collaboration, and government bodies to grow their exports and attract foreign investment. We have secured $20bn+ in revenues and investment for our clients and are active in more than 40 international markets. Founded in 1990, we have over 25 locations, including Shanghai, Beijing, Tokyo, Seoul, Taipei, Singapore, Delhi, Mumbai, Bangkok, Silicon Valley, LA, Boston, Toronto, Oxford, London, Paris, Düsseldorf, Helsinki and Poznan.
Knobbe Martens
Knobbe Martens protects the ideas that drive innovation and propel our world forward. As a leading intellectual property and technology law firm, clients worldwide rely on us to safeguard their products, brands, and technologies through strategic counsel and high-impact litigation. With offices across the U.S., our lawyers and technology specialists collaborate to deliver tailored solutions for clients ranging from multinational corporations to start-ups and emerging companies at every stage. Discover more at www.knobbe.com.
Licks Attorneys
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.
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.
LI & N IP
Li & N IP provides global and customized IP legal services to domestic and international enterprises, based on both patent prosecution firm and law firm. Li &N IP continuously provide high quality IP services based on Li & N’s Philosophy to creates sustainable new value for clients and society.
Li & N IP always listens attentively to the diverse and unique needs of clients. By proactively adopting the client’s perspective, forming specialized legal teams for each individual client and case. Li & N IP regularly hosts specialized seminars focusing on cutting-edge legal practice and recent development of IP legal issues regarding Standard Essential Patents (SEP) and Artificial Intelligence (AI)-related patents.
Furthermore, Li & N IP actively participates in charitable activities, continuously organizing philanthropic initiatives such as social donations. Li & N IP has received commendations and awards from relevant authorities for its contributions.
Li & N IP always listens attentively to the diverse and unique needs of clients. By proactively adopting the client’s perspective, forming specialized legal teams for each individual client and case. Li & N IP regularly hosts specialized seminars focusing on cutting-edge legal practice and recent development of IP legal issues regarding Standard Essential Patents (SEP) and Artificial Intelligence (AI)-related patents.
Furthermore, Li & N IP actively participates in charitable activities, continuously organizing philanthropic initiatives such as social donations. Li & N IP has received commendations and awards from relevant authorities for its contributions.
Liu, Shen & Associates
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
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.
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.
Palmira Wireless AG
Palmira Wireless is an IP licensing service provider connecting businesses with technology. Our diverse portfolio of IEEE 802.11 WLAN patents enables companies to develop and enhance Wi-Fi 4 and Wi-Fi 5 products covering a wide range of uses – from mobile phones to music devices, from cars to industrial machines. Our IP helps make products better connected, faster, more reliable, and smarter.
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problems—they elevate life.
We’re here to make the world better, smarter, and cooler — one breakthrough at a time.
Pillsbury Law
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.
Richardson Oliver Insights
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.
Spencer Fane
Spencer Fane LLP is a full-service U.S. law firm with more than 750 attorneys across 39 offices nationwide, serving clients through corporate transactions, litigation, labor and employment, health care, and dozens of other practice areas. We've built that experience through decades of guiding businesses of every size, from emerging companies to established industry leaders, and we bring the same hands-on, relationship-first approach to every matter, recognized along the way as the only U.S. law firm with a perfect score in U.S. News & World Report's 2025 Best Companies to Work For.
Our Intellectual Property team carries that same depth, with more than 60 U.S.-based lawyers, agents, and engineers who have guided clients through patent prosecution, portfolio management, licensing, and enforcement across more than 50 countries. Their technical backgrounds span electrical, mechanical, and chemical engineering, computer science, and the life sciences, giving them the range to support innovators at every stage, from first filing to global protection. Spencer Fane is a Gold sponsor of IPBC Asia 2026 and looks forward to connecting with IP leaders from across the region in Tokyo.
Our Intellectual Property team carries that same depth, with more than 60 U.S.-based lawyers, agents, and engineers who have guided clients through patent prosecution, portfolio management, licensing, and enforcement across more than 50 countries. Their technical backgrounds span electrical, mechanical, and chemical engineering, computer science, and the life sciences, giving them the range to support innovators at every stage, from first filing to global protection. Spencer Fane is a Gold sponsor of IPBC Asia 2026 and looks forward to connecting with IP leaders from across the region in Tokyo.
Tech+IP
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.
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
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.
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.
wert intelligence
wert intelligence is redesigning the operating logic of the intellectual property industry by combining large-scale IP data infrastructure with applied artificial intelligence.
Founded by Jung-Ho Yun - a U.S. Attorney and Korean Patent Attorney - the company has built one of the world's most comprehensive patent data foundations: a curated corpus of 170 million patent documents spanning 106 jurisdictions, refined through proprietary data pipelines into AI-ready formats.
At the core of this infrastructure is PlutoLM, wert intelligence's own domain-specific large language model, purpose-built exclusively for patent and IP workflows.
Trained on a decade of accumulated patent-domain knowledge, PlutoLM delivers search accuracy three times higher than general-purpose AI models - enabling tasks that once took days,
such as invention disclosure drafting and prior-art investigation, to be completed up to 98% faster.
wert intelligence now serves more than 3,000 enterprises, law firms, and public institutions across Asia through its flagship platforms, keywert and keywert Insight.
The company's technology has earned recognition from Korea's Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy with an official TI-2 technology grade, and from more than 100 of Korea's largest corporations, including Samsung and LG.
Most notably, wert intelligence was recently selected by LG Electronics - one of the world's leading patent-holding enterprises - to deploy its IP-AX (IP AI Transformation) solution across the group's global R&D organization.
Yun is the architect of the IP-AX category and serves on the IP-AX advisory group convened by Korea's Ministry of Intellectual Property, shaping national AI-transformation policy in the IP sector.
Founded by Jung-Ho Yun - a U.S. Attorney and Korean Patent Attorney - the company has built one of the world's most comprehensive patent data foundations: a curated corpus of 170 million patent documents spanning 106 jurisdictions, refined through proprietary data pipelines into AI-ready formats.
At the core of this infrastructure is PlutoLM, wert intelligence's own domain-specific large language model, purpose-built exclusively for patent and IP workflows.
Trained on a decade of accumulated patent-domain knowledge, PlutoLM delivers search accuracy three times higher than general-purpose AI models - enabling tasks that once took days,
such as invention disclosure drafting and prior-art investigation, to be completed up to 98% faster.
wert intelligence now serves more than 3,000 enterprises, law firms, and public institutions across Asia through its flagship platforms, keywert and keywert Insight.
The company's technology has earned recognition from Korea's Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy with an official TI-2 technology grade, and from more than 100 of Korea's largest corporations, including Samsung and LG.
Most notably, wert intelligence was recently selected by LG Electronics - one of the world's leading patent-holding enterprises - to deploy its IP-AX (IP AI Transformation) solution across the group's global R&D organization.
Yun is the architect of the IP-AX category and serves on the IP-AX advisory group convened by Korea's Ministry of Intellectual Property, shaping national AI-transformation policy in the IP sector.
Wildanger
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.
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.
ZTE
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.
Patlytics
Patlytics is an AI-powered platform that helps the IP community unlock massive productivity gains. Its suite of "customer-obsessed" technology aids IP professionals in discovering, analysing, and reporting on intellectual property data, so teams can spend less time on manual work and more time on strategy.
Built around the workflows IP teams rely on every day, including patent search, infringement and invalidity analysis, claim charts, and portfolio insights, Patlytics supports law firms, corporate legal departments, and innovation-led companies. Its mission is simple: to give IP professionals faster, clearer, and more reliable answers from their patent data.
Built around the workflows IP teams rely on every day, including patent search, infringement and invalidity analysis, claim charts, and portfolio insights, Patlytics supports law firms, corporate legal departments, and innovation-led companies. Its mission is simple: to give IP professionals faster, clearer, and more reliable answers from their patent data.
RPX
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.
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.
Solve Intelligence
Solve Intelligence is the leading AI patent solution for IP teams and legal professionals globally.
Over 700+ IP teams across 6 continents use Solve Intelligence’s AI patent software for patent application drafting, prosecution, claim charts, and invention harvesting.
Backed by leading investors including Y Combinator, Thomson Reuters, Microsoft, 20VC and Visionaries, Solve Intelligence has raised a total of $55m in funding to build the world’s leading AI patent tools to support the end-to-end workflows of IP teams and legal professionals.
Our goal is simple: if it touches patents, you should be able to do it faster, better, and more collaboratively in Solve Intelligence.
With a growing team of world-leading engineers and patent attorneys, Solve Intelligence is actively hiring across a number of roles: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/solve-intelligence/jobs
If you are a patent practitioner, we would love to hear from you: https://www.solveintelligence.com/contact-us
Over 700+ IP teams across 6 continents use Solve Intelligence’s AI patent software for patent application drafting, prosecution, claim charts, and invention harvesting.
Backed by leading investors including Y Combinator, Thomson Reuters, Microsoft, 20VC and Visionaries, Solve Intelligence has raised a total of $55m in funding to build the world’s leading AI patent tools to support the end-to-end workflows of IP teams and legal professionals.
Our goal is simple: if it touches patents, you should be able to do it faster, better, and more collaboratively in Solve Intelligence.
With a growing team of world-leading engineers and patent attorneys, Solve Intelligence is actively hiring across a number of roles: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/solve-intelligence/jobs
If you are a patent practitioner, we would love to hear from you: https://www.solveintelligence.com/contact-us
Wisdomain
Established in 1999, Wisdomain’s core mission has been the analysis and valuation of global patents. Over 200 companies in Japan are using ULTRA Patent, Wisdomain’s patent search and analysis solutions.
WISDOMAIN specialises in Big Data analytics and helps to transform the data into actionable insights. Powered by its proprietary technology, WISDOMAIN developed unique data analysis tools for IP professionals to help track technology trends across the industry and automatically calculate the monetary value of patents in real time.
Taking the patent valuation technology to its next level, WISDOMAIN made a new index PTR (Price-to-Technology Ratio) that provides insights into the future performance of security investments by identifying overvalued or undervalued technology companies.
Wisdomain offers patent search/analysis solutions, patent analysis reports, patent valuation, and alternative data based on patent data. Wisdomain has also established PTR Asset Management, Technology Credit Bureau, and Open IP Platform with its technology.
WISDOMAIN specialises in Big Data analytics and helps to transform the data into actionable insights. Powered by its proprietary technology, WISDOMAIN developed unique data analysis tools for IP professionals to help track technology trends across the industry and automatically calculate the monetary value of patents in real time.
Taking the patent valuation technology to its next level, WISDOMAIN made a new index PTR (Price-to-Technology Ratio) that provides insights into the future performance of security investments by identifying overvalued or undervalued technology companies.
Wisdomain offers patent search/analysis solutions, patent analysis reports, patent valuation, and alternative data based on patent data. Wisdomain has also established PTR Asset Management, Technology Credit Bureau, and Open IP Platform with its technology.
Compass Lexecon
Compass Lexecon is one of the world's leading economic consulting firms, providing expert economic analysis and testimony in IP matters, including patents, trademarks, and copyrights.
We advise clients on competition and antitrust matters, litigation, arbitration, and public consultations. Drawing on valuation, financial analysis, and deep expertise in innovation economics, our economists determine reasonable royalties, set FRAND rates for Standard Essential Patents, and estimate lost profits - tailoring each analysis to the specific facts of the case. Our academic research also helps inform IP policy debates.
Our experience spans all industries, with particular depth in Telecommunications, Media, Electronic Equipment, Pharmaceuticals & Life Sciences, Consumer Goods, Finance, and Energy.
We advise clients on competition and antitrust matters, litigation, arbitration, and public consultations. Drawing on valuation, financial analysis, and deep expertise in innovation economics, our economists determine reasonable royalties, set FRAND rates for Standard Essential Patents, and estimate lost profits - tailoring each analysis to the specific facts of the case. Our academic research also helps inform IP policy debates.
Our experience spans all industries, with particular depth in Telecommunications, Media, Electronic Equipment, Pharmaceuticals & Life Sciences, Consumer Goods, Finance, and Energy.
Davis Wright Tremaine
At Davis Wright Tremaine, we create, manage, and enforce trademark portfolios and offer effective and innovative methods to combat counterfeiting and infringement. Our clients are in industries ranging from outdoor performance to fashion apparel, luxury goods to consumer electronics, health and beauty to entertainment. We understand how the Internet is shifting the counterfeiting paradigm, and we are at the forefront of developing strategies to address the new challenges confronting our clients.
Elevate
Elevate is an expert-led, software-powered law company. They provide software and services for the intersection of business and law. Their legal, business, and technology professionals offer practical ways for global law departments and law firms to improve efficiency, quality, and business outcomes.
Their IP solutions empower organisations worldwide, including Fortune 500 companies, law firms, start-ups, investors, universities, and licensing firms, to build, protect, and maximise the value of their IP assets. Their 500+ experts, collectively hold the highest number of QPIP certifications and several global patent search awards, bring deep expertise across all industries including ICT, engineering, automotive, life sciences, and chemistry. By combining expert intelligence with our proprietary AI-Powered technology, they deliver end-to-end IP solutions across the entire IP lifecycle.
Their IP solutions empower organisations worldwide, including Fortune 500 companies, law firms, start-ups, investors, universities, and licensing firms, to build, protect, and maximise the value of their IP assets. Their 500+ experts, collectively hold the highest number of QPIP certifications and several global patent search awards, bring deep expertise across all industries including ICT, engineering, automotive, life sciences, and chemistry. By combining expert intelligence with our proprietary AI-Powered technology, they deliver end-to-end IP solutions across the entire IP lifecycle.
Equiviti
Equiviti offers tailored patent licensing solutions to global high-tech companies, addressing the shortcomings of traditional dispute resolution. While a new company, our founders bring over 45 years of experience, particularly in standard essential patents. We provide innovative, collaborative approaches for mutually beneficial outcomes, avoiding costly litigation. Equiviti stands out through aggregated deals, strong industry relationships, and a focus on pre-litigation licensing.
Fabricant
We are a dynamic boutique IP litigation law firm located in mid-town Manhattan. Each member of our firm has previously been a partner at the most prestigious Big Law firms in the country.
Our Managing partner was the Chair of the IP litigation practice at both Brown Rudnick LLP and Winston & Strawn in New York.
Our firm is dedicated to providing the best legal services to our clients on predictable and reasonable financial terms. We pride ourselves on providing personal service to our clients seven days a week. We will devote whatever time, hours and effort is necessary to prepare for trial and to win our cases. The day of being chained to hourly billing is over at Fabricant LLP.
Our Managing partner was the Chair of the IP litigation practice at both Brown Rudnick LLP and Winston & Strawn in New York.
Our firm is dedicated to providing the best legal services to our clients on predictable and reasonable financial terms. We pride ourselves on providing personal service to our clients seven days a week. We will devote whatever time, hours and effort is necessary to prepare for trial and to win our cases. The day of being chained to hourly billing is over at Fabricant LLP.
Fortress
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.
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.
GreyB
GreyB is a technology and IP research firm which helps law firms, in-house IP and research teams, and business heads gain better clarity about their innovations, patent assets, and research challenges. They’ve an expertise in analysing patent data, and understanding market dynamics powering research and delivering IP consultations based on insights.
GreyB has established its success in being critical for winning patent litigations, scouting new technologies, using IP as an asset for business decisions, benchmarking company’s IP strengths, risk assessment in FTOs, etc.
Over the years, GreyB has taken traditional patent search to a next level by combining machine intelligence and human intellect into one platform. Their expertise in patent landscapes, patent searching, IP monetisation and litigation support puts them way ahead of their competition.
GreyB has established its success in being critical for winning patent litigations, scouting new technologies, using IP as an asset for business decisions, benchmarking company’s IP strengths, risk assessment in FTOs, etc.
Over the years, GreyB has taken traditional patent search to a next level by combining machine intelligence and human intellect into one platform. Their expertise in patent landscapes, patent searching, IP monetisation and litigation support puts them way ahead of their competition.
iCuerious
iCuerious is a global intellectual property research and technology consulting firm helping organizations turn complex patent and technology information into actionable intelligence for better IP and business decisions.
Our core IP intelligence services—including Strategic FTO, platform-assisted IP Landscapes, and SDIs (Strategic Disclosure Intelligence)—are increasingly platform-enabled and packaged with complementary capabilities. Rather than treating individual research assignments as standalone deliverables, we structure and connect these services into integrated workflows designed to address broader IP challenges—from identifying risks and opportunities and understanding competitive positions to supporting litigation and licensing and informing portfolio strategy.
Our broader capabilities span prior-art and invalidity/validity research, EoU analysis, competitive intelligence, patent portfolio analysis, litigation support, SEP and licensing research, patent drafting, and IP strategy, enabling us to support clients across diverse IP and technology requirements.
Underlying this model is our technology-enabled, expert-led approach. We use AI and advanced technologies to develop and continuously refine purpose-specific workflows that optimize research processes, improve efficiency, and direct expert attention to the stages where technical and patent judgment matters most. By combining trained workflows with human expertise, we aim to deliver greater efficiency without compromising the depth, context, and reliability required for complex IP decisions.
With 500+ business relationships globally, iCuerious has evaluated 200,000+ patents and delivered thousands of research and analysis projects across diverse technologies and jurisdictions. Our focus is not simply on delivering more information, but on providing reliable, defensible, and decision-supporting IP intelligence that helps organizations innovate, manage risk, strengthen portfolios, and create value from IP.
Our core IP intelligence services—including Strategic FTO, platform-assisted IP Landscapes, and SDIs (Strategic Disclosure Intelligence)—are increasingly platform-enabled and packaged with complementary capabilities. Rather than treating individual research assignments as standalone deliverables, we structure and connect these services into integrated workflows designed to address broader IP challenges—from identifying risks and opportunities and understanding competitive positions to supporting litigation and licensing and informing portfolio strategy.
Our broader capabilities span prior-art and invalidity/validity research, EoU analysis, competitive intelligence, patent portfolio analysis, litigation support, SEP and licensing research, patent drafting, and IP strategy, enabling us to support clients across diverse IP and technology requirements.
Underlying this model is our technology-enabled, expert-led approach. We use AI and advanced technologies to develop and continuously refine purpose-specific workflows that optimize research processes, improve efficiency, and direct expert attention to the stages where technical and patent judgment matters most. By combining trained workflows with human expertise, we aim to deliver greater efficiency without compromising the depth, context, and reliability required for complex IP decisions.
With 500+ business relationships globally, iCuerious has evaluated 200,000+ patents and delivered thousands of research and analysis projects across diverse technologies and jurisdictions. Our focus is not simply on delivering more information, but on providing reliable, defensible, and decision-supporting IP intelligence that helps organizations innovate, manage risk, strengthen portfolios, and create value from IP.
Invent IP
InventIP is an India based Tier 1 Intellectual Property law firm that provides a wide range of IP services to clients across the globe with primary competencies in preparation, filing, and prosecution of Patents, Designs, Trademark and Copyrights. InventIP also helps clients in formulating IP strategy, facilitating technology commercialization, providing technology and commercial insights through focused patent search and analytics, performing IP audits, and providing IP management support. Additionally, InventIP provides legal advisory on technology law and related commercial agreements.
IP Bridge
Established in 2013, they are Japan’s pioneer IP fund management company and provide support for the management and leveraging of intellectual property that has not demonstrated its potential value.
In addition to eliciting the potential value of owned patents, they provide IP-based support to both leading and start-up companies with their knowledge and experience gained through patent utilisation.
In addition to eliciting the potential value of owned patents, they provide IP-based support to both leading and start-up companies with their knowledge and experience gained through patent utilisation.
IPValue
IPValue has provided IP management to major technology enterprises since 2001. The company contributes a wealth of industry knowledge to tailored relationships that help partners meet business goals. IPValue works with high-quality patents owned by leading innovative organisations and developers of premium IP. Partners appreciate IPValue’s thoughtful and long-term outlook and ‘litigate last’ philosophy as well as the fact that engagements become a perfect fit. IPValue is committed to obtaining fair value for partners’ IP and has delivered more than $1 billion in cash to patent owners from activities to date – largely thanks to the company’s people-first approach and deep passion for innovation.
Key Patent Innovations
Key Patent Innovations is an Irish-based, world-class IP monetisation company that identifies and invests in high-value patent-based opportunities.
At Key Patent Innovations, they combine their extensive experience in patent monetisation with their in-depth knowledge of technology markets to identify high-quality patent portfolios. Working together with a select team of patent monetisation experts, they develop and realise the potential of these portfolios by leveraging their experience and contacts to successfully negotiate and close licensing deals thereby creating a return to the patent owner.
They partner with leading technology companies to realise the potential of their patent assets.
Their Pictiva portfolio includes more than 1,000 patents covering commercially useful OLED technology categories – from the composition and structure of the devices, to the circuits for driving display operations, and the various techniques and processes for making the displays.
Their Valtrus portfolio comprises a large number of significant patents issued worldwide, covering a broad range of ubiquitous technologies including, for example, data centre servers and security; infrastructure management software; WLAN; network analytics and management; power; operating systems and databases; processors and storage arrays.
At Key Patent Innovations, they combine their extensive experience in patent monetisation with their in-depth knowledge of technology markets to identify high-quality patent portfolios. Working together with a select team of patent monetisation experts, they develop and realise the potential of these portfolios by leveraging their experience and contacts to successfully negotiate and close licensing deals thereby creating a return to the patent owner.
They partner with leading technology companies to realise the potential of their patent assets.
Their Pictiva portfolio includes more than 1,000 patents covering commercially useful OLED technology categories – from the composition and structure of the devices, to the circuits for driving display operations, and the various techniques and processes for making the displays.
Their Valtrus portfolio comprises a large number of significant patents issued worldwide, covering a broad range of ubiquitous technologies including, for example, data centre servers and security; infrastructure management software; WLAN; network analytics and management; power; operating systems and databases; processors and storage arrays.
LexisNexis
We are a leading global provider of legal and regulatory intelligence. We give organisations the business information and analytics they need to make better, more impactful decisions. We are building powerful new decision tools that use machine learning, natural language processing, visualisation and artificial intelligence that aid and enhance decision making.
Lumenci
Lumenci is a full-service IP consulting firm helping patent owners and law firms maximize the value of their IP assets. With 100+ experts across Austin, New York, the Bay Area, and New Delhi, Lumenci specializes in patent monetization, valuation, and litigation support, leveraging deep domain expertise and automation.
The firm has analyzed 70,000+ patents, tested 900+ products, and investigated 300+ litigations globally, saving clients over $3B in verdicts, settlements, and cost reductions. Lumenci’s team of Patent Monetization Strategists, Due Diligence Experts, and Litigation Discovery Consultants deliver strategic insights across software, AI, cloud computing, codecs, telecom, and hardware.
The firm has analyzed 70,000+ patents, tested 900+ products, and investigated 300+ litigations globally, saving clients over $3B in verdicts, settlements, and cost reductions. Lumenci’s team of Patent Monetization Strategists, Due Diligence Experts, and Litigation Discovery Consultants deliver strategic insights across software, AI, cloud computing, codecs, telecom, and hardware.
Ocean Tomo, a part of J.S. Held
Ocean Tomo provides Expert Opinion, Management Consulting, Advisory, and Patent Analysis and Reverse Engineering services focused on matters involving intellectual property (IP) and other intangible assets. Practice offerings address economic damage calculations and testimony; business licensing strategy and contract interpretation; patent-focused business intelligence; portfolio development strategy; litigation support; trade secret reasonable measures; asset and business valuation; strategy and risk management consulting; merger and acquisition advisory; debt and equity private placement; and IP brokerage. As a part of J.S. Held, Ocean Tomo Transactions works alongside more than 1500 professionals globally and assists clients – corporations, insurers, law firms, governments, and institutional investors.
Parabellum Capital
Parabellum Capital is one of the most experienced, cohesive, and highly regarded commercial litigation funders in the US. Founded in 2012, we are ranked as a litigation finance leader by Chambers & Partners, Law Dragon, Leaders League, and Who's Who Legal.
Our diverse team of talented professionals offers unrivaled origination, underwriting, and portfolio management capabilities within an institutional-grade operational infrastructure.
Parabellum’s name comes from the Latin adage si vis pacem, para bellum, meaning “If you want peace, prepare for war.” We are an SEC-registered investment adviser and member of the International Legal Finance Association.
Our diverse team of talented professionals offers unrivaled origination, underwriting, and portfolio management capabilities within an institutional-grade operational infrastructure.
Parabellum’s name comes from the Latin adage si vis pacem, para bellum, meaning “If you want peace, prepare for war.” We are an SEC-registered investment adviser and member of the International Legal Finance Association.
Perkins Coie
Perkins Coie is a leading international law firm dedicated to helping clients solve the legal and business challenges of tomorrow.
For more than a century, we have represented clients at the forefront of technological change, from aviation to artificial intelligence. Our practice of law is enriched by our deep understanding of our clients’ businesses and the industries in which they compete. Like our clients, we look forward to new possibilities and frontiers with unwavering intellectual curiosity.
With 21 offices in the United States, Asia, and Europe—and a network of law firms around the world—Perkins Coie assists clients anywhere and everywhere they do business.
For more than a century, we have represented clients at the forefront of technological change, from aviation to artificial intelligence. Our practice of law is enriched by our deep understanding of our clients’ businesses and the industries in which they compete. Like our clients, we look forward to new possibilities and frontiers with unwavering intellectual curiosity.
With 21 offices in the United States, Asia, and Europe—and a network of law firms around the world—Perkins Coie assists clients anywhere and everywhere they do business.
Philips IP&S
Philips Intellectual Property & Standards (IP&S) proactively pursues the creation of new IP in close cooperation with Philips’ operating businesses and innovation and strategy. IP&S is a leading industrial IP organisation that provides world-class IP solutions to Philips’ businesses in order to support their growth, competitiveness and profitability.
Powell Gilbert
Powell Gilbert is one of the most highly regarded European intellectual property litigation firms, trusted by clients across knowledge, technology and brand-based industries.
We provide comprehensive IP legal services, covering patents, trade marks, copyright, designs and confidential information. Renowned for European patent litigation, including acting in Unified Patent Court (UPC) proceedings, we represent clients from all technical sectors and we are particularly recognised for our work on SEP/FRAND and life sciences disputes. We also represent clients in patent licence disputes, in litigation and in arbitration proceedings.
Our exceptional team, based in London, Düsseldorf and Dublin, combines vast litigation experience with deep technical and scientific knowledge. Many of our lawyers hold PhDs, enabling us to handle the most technically complex cases. We have a proven track record in developing, advising on and co-ordinating the most complex and high-stakes multi-jurisdictional patent litigation strategies across Europe and the firm is perfectly placed to represent clients in the UK, Irish and German courts and also before the UPC.
We provide comprehensive IP legal services, covering patents, trade marks, copyright, designs and confidential information. Renowned for European patent litigation, including acting in Unified Patent Court (UPC) proceedings, we represent clients from all technical sectors and we are particularly recognised for our work on SEP/FRAND and life sciences disputes. We also represent clients in patent licence disputes, in litigation and in arbitration proceedings.
Our exceptional team, based in London, Düsseldorf and Dublin, combines vast litigation experience with deep technical and scientific knowledge. Many of our lawyers hold PhDs, enabling us to handle the most technically complex cases. We have a proven track record in developing, advising on and co-ordinating the most complex and high-stakes multi-jurisdictional patent litigation strategies across Europe and the firm is perfectly placed to represent clients in the UK, Irish and German courts and also before the UPC.
Quest
Quest creates shareholder value through investment and management interests in intellectual property assets, such as patents, trademarks, copyrights, novel inventions and trade secrets. Through our business, shareholders have the opportunity to participate across a broad portfolio of dynamic assets in the burgeoning intellectual property space.
Quest provides IP asset owners and stakeholders – including inventors, law firms, estates, small businesses and corporations – with a valued resource for protection, management and monetisation of IP assets.
Quest partners with owners and affiliates of compelling intellectual property, in both mature and emerging market technologies, to develop and execute a strategic program focused on realising the full economic value of the IP. We offer a suite of value-added services to owners, IP attorneys, small businesses, and corporations to drive revenue from innovative, distressed, dormant or under-managed IP assets.
Quest provides IP asset owners and stakeholders – including inventors, law firms, estates, small businesses and corporations – with a valued resource for protection, management and monetisation of IP assets.
Quest partners with owners and affiliates of compelling intellectual property, in both mature and emerging market technologies, to develop and execute a strategic program focused on realising the full economic value of the IP. We offer a suite of value-added services to owners, IP attorneys, small businesses, and corporations to drive revenue from innovative, distressed, dormant or under-managed IP assets.
Silver Bullet IP Consulting
SilverBullet works with high-tech companies, both fortune 500s and start-ups, law firms, NPEs, and investors: helping them identify their most valuable IP assets and determining the best ways to do more with their IP.
And it's very likely that they can help you do more with your portfolio, too.Whether that means re-energizing your IP strategy, generating new revenues from your patents, strengthening your licensing position, gaining strategic advantages in the market, or attaining freedom to operate in new areas, their services can help you unlock the full potential of your ideas.
And it's very likely that they can help you do more with your portfolio, too.Whether that means re-energizing your IP strategy, generating new revenues from your patents, strengthening your licensing position, gaining strategic advantages in the market, or attaining freedom to operate in new areas, their services can help you unlock the full potential of your ideas.
Sitao
SITAO has been striving to provide top notch one-stop services related to IP monetization in China. SITAO founded in 2018 and is the only Chinese Intellectual Property service provider in the industry whose core business is IP monetization. SITAO IP monetization group integrates specialized entities and resources to offer supports from tech, legal, and business perspectives required in various IP monetization programs. We provide customized IP services covering all aspects of IP monetization including IP licensing, IP transaction, IP disputes resolution, IP portfolio management and IP consultation. At SITAO, we dedicate to maximising the value of IP assets of our esteemed clients. We passionately believe great innovation should be respected and rewarded. SITAO's mission is "Attaining True Value of Great IP".
Squark IP
Squark IP is the leading Patent Monetization Consulting firm in hi-tech domains. If you want to reduce time and efforts to monetize your patents, drop an email to us at siddharth@squarkip.com or hello@squarkip.com.
We offer result-oriented and high-quality services including Patent Portfolio mining, Evidence-of-Use analysis, Reverse Engineering, SEP analysis, and Validity Analysis services.
We offer result-oriented and high-quality services including Patent Portfolio mining, Evidence-of-Use analysis, Reverse Engineering, SEP analysis, and Validity Analysis services.
Thum & Partner
Thum & Partner is a German patent attorney firm with a strong UPC and litigation focus. The firm currently operates with a team of 12 attorneys and 6 patent engineers and runs offices in Munich and Constance. The strong team has first-hand insights from over 20 different UPC cases and many years of experience in hundreds of German and European opposition and nullity cases and cross-border infringement matters. Thum & Partner was nominated as JUVE Patent UPC Firm of the year 2025 and is shortlisted as UPC Firm of the Year in Germany for the Managing IP EMEA Awards 2025.
TMI Associates
TMI Associates is one of Japan’s leading full-service law firms. Established in 1990, the firm has grown into a multidisciplinary practice with 656 attorneys at law (bengoshi), 101 patent and trademark attorneys (benrishi), and more than 100 paralegals and support staff.
Intellectual property has been a core practice area since the firm’s establishment. A distinguishing feature of TMI’s IP practice is the close collaboration between its 126 IP lawyers and 101 patent and trademark attorneys, enabling the firm to provide seamless and integrated support across all areas of intellectual property.
The firm’s IP practice covers patent and trademark prosecution, licensing and other IP transactions, litigation, pre-litigation analysis, invalidation trials and oppositions, freedom-to-operate analyses, due diligence, and customs enforcement. TMI represents both domestic and international clients across a broad range of industries and technologies.
Each year, the firm handles approximately 4,400 patent applications, 4,400 trademark applications, and more than 30 IP lawsuits. TMI is particularly recognized for its strengths in patent prosecution, IP transactions, and litigation, delivering strategic and business-oriented solutions through the combined expertise of its patent professionals and lawyers.
Intellectual property has been a core practice area since the firm’s establishment. A distinguishing feature of TMI’s IP practice is the close collaboration between its 126 IP lawyers and 101 patent and trademark attorneys, enabling the firm to provide seamless and integrated support across all areas of intellectual property.
The firm’s IP practice covers patent and trademark prosecution, licensing and other IP transactions, litigation, pre-litigation analysis, invalidation trials and oppositions, freedom-to-operate analyses, due diligence, and customs enforcement. TMI represents both domestic and international clients across a broad range of industries and technologies.
Each year, the firm handles approximately 4,400 patent applications, 4,400 trademark applications, and more than 30 IP lawsuits. TMI is particularly recognized for its strengths in patent prosecution, IP transactions, and litigation, delivering strategic and business-oriented solutions through the combined expertise of its patent professionals and lawyers.
Wiggin and Dana
Wiggin and Dana is a full-service law firm with more than 160 attorneys. They are a true partnership of highly talented, creative and experienced lawyers dedicated to exceeding their clients’ expectations every day.
With offices in Boston, Connecticut, New York, Philadelphia, Washington, DC, and Florida, they represent clients throughout the United States and globally on a wide range of sophisticated and complex matters. From defending a Fortune 500 institution in “bet-the-company” litigation, to helping the next generation of inventors bring a new technology to market, to preserving the wealth that a family business has worked so hard to create, they pride themselves in offering value driven solutions and results.
With offices in Boston, Connecticut, New York, Philadelphia, Washington, DC, and Florida, they represent clients throughout the United States and globally on a wide range of sophisticated and complex matters. From defending a Fortune 500 institution in “bet-the-company” litigation, to helping the next generation of inventors bring a new technology to market, to preserving the wealth that a family business has worked so hard to create, they pride themselves in offering value driven solutions and results.
Wilan
WiLAN has been an innovation-focused company since its founding in the early 1990s and continues to contribute with the development and licensing of new technology solutions to this day. In addition, WiLAN partners with companies of all sizes from around the world to provide its licensing expertise and create real monetary value for their intellectual property.
ADAMSONS
For over four decades, Adamsons has partnered with leading organisations and law firms worldwide, delivering executive search and strategic advisory services across Legal, Intellectual Property, Compliance, Privacy, and M&A. With offices in London and Munich and a global network spanning more than 36 countries, the firm specialises in senior appointments and complex, multi-jurisdictional mandates.
Driven by its philosophy, We Go Beyond, Adamsons combines deep sector expertise with a genuinely partner-led, consultative approach. Beyond executive search, the firm supports clients in building resilient leadership teams, planning succession, and navigating strategic growth, creating long-term partnerships that deliver lasting impact.
Driven by its philosophy, We Go Beyond, Adamsons combines deep sector expertise with a genuinely partner-led, consultative approach. Beyond executive search, the firm supports clients in building resilient leadership teams, planning succession, and navigating strategic growth, creating long-term partnerships that deliver lasting impact.
Ankura
Ankura works with global leaders and advisers to grow, protect and maximise value by simplifying the complex. Thier IP experts help inventors, investors and corporations to assess, value, manage and monetise IP assets in today’s global innovation economy. This includes providing value-based guidance; facilitating IP sale, licensing, and financing transactions; and providing damages analysis in IP disputes for plaintiffs and defendants.
Blue Peak Law Group LLP
Every lawyer at Blue Peak Law Group is an equity partner with more than ten years of experience. The partners who try a case are the same ones our clients speak with on day one and at every stage after, from pre-suit investigation through appeal.
Founded in 2022, Blue Peak litigates patent, trade secret, and copyright disputes. They appear in U.S. district courts, before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board and the ITC, and in the Federal Circuit. Their work involves semiconductors, electronics, and software. Their partners have strong technical backgrounds, with advanced degrees in electrical engineering, computer science, biochemistry, and other fields.
Blue Peak lawyers have represented many Asia-based technology companies. Heng Gong, a native Mandarin speaker and Tsinghua engineering graduate, has represented Samsung, Hisense, Huawei, and SK Innovation. John Brinkmann and other Blue Peak partners have represented TSMC, Samsung, and LGE, among others. Blue Peak lawyers have also been adverse to some of the world’s largest technology companies.
Our partners also wrote the software Blue Peak runs on, using advanced AI tools. It manages dockets, discovery, depositions, patent portfolio analysis, and case law. The lawyers who try our cases are the same people who build those tools.
John Brinkmann and Heng Gong will attend IPBC Asia 2026 and would be glad to meet with companies thinking about how to protect and enforce what they have built.
Founded in 2022, Blue Peak litigates patent, trade secret, and copyright disputes. They appear in U.S. district courts, before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board and the ITC, and in the Federal Circuit. Their work involves semiconductors, electronics, and software. Their partners have strong technical backgrounds, with advanced degrees in electrical engineering, computer science, biochemistry, and other fields.
Blue Peak lawyers have represented many Asia-based technology companies. Heng Gong, a native Mandarin speaker and Tsinghua engineering graduate, has represented Samsung, Hisense, Huawei, and SK Innovation. John Brinkmann and other Blue Peak partners have represented TSMC, Samsung, and LGE, among others. Blue Peak lawyers have also been adverse to some of the world’s largest technology companies.
Our partners also wrote the software Blue Peak runs on, using advanced AI tools. It manages dockets, discovery, depositions, patent portfolio analysis, and case law. The lawyers who try our cases are the same people who build those tools.
John Brinkmann and Heng Gong will attend IPBC Asia 2026 and would be glad to meet with companies thinking about how to protect and enforce what they have built.
Equip
Founded in 2023 as a spin-out of the IP Advisory & Transaction practice from Stout, Equip specializes in evaluating and monetizing IP assets. They serve a range of clients, from public corporations to privately held companies to IP oriented funds across numerous industries. Their clients rely on their premier expertise, deep industry knowledge and unparalleled responsiveness on complex matters.
Equip has a fully integrated team of IP, technical and finance professionals with the ability to execute on the full spectrum of IP services. With deep market knowledge, unparalleled industry relationships, and decades of transaction experience, their multi-disciplinary team supports each engagement with detailed market research and extensive analytics. Their loyal customers entrust and choose us because of their unparalleled track record, one-stop solutions, and ability to scale to handle even the largest of portfolios in-house.
Equip has a fully integrated team of IP, technical and finance professionals with the ability to execute on the full spectrum of IP services. With deep market knowledge, unparalleled industry relationships, and decades of transaction experience, their multi-disciplinary team supports each engagement with detailed market research and extensive analytics. Their loyal customers entrust and choose us because of their unparalleled track record, one-stop solutions, and ability to scale to handle even the largest of portfolios in-house.
IP Mind
IP Mind offers a comprehensive suite of services designed to meet the diverse needs of both licensors and licensees in the SEP ecosystem. For licensors, our tool facilitates the establishment and understanding of their share of the SEP stack, aiding in accurate FRAND rate calculations. For licensees, IP Mind provides the capability to assess the validity of alleged SEPs and conduct thorough landscape reviews. Additionally, our platform enables both parties to mine patent portfolios efficiently, uncovering hidden SEPs that could hold significant value. Our services are crafted to simplify and optimize the workflows associated with SEP management and licensing.
Willis Towers Watson
WTW’s Litigation and Contingent Risk practice structures and places insurance policies for litigation risks and integrates that coverage into insurance-backed financing transactions. We work with patent owners, litigation funders, lenders, and law firms across Asia, the United States, and Europe to transfer legal risk to highly-rated insurers, reducing the risk borne by capital providers and making the capital behind patent enforcement campaigns less expensive and easier to raise.
For patent owners and licensors. Litigation financing for enforcement in U.S. district courts, the ITC, the UPC, Germany, and other jurisdictions can be expensive and difficult to obtain. In an insurance-backed financing, a loan or investment secured by IP assets is paired with an insurance policy designed to respond if litigation and licensing proceeds are insufficient to repay the insured portion of the financing. Lenders that otherwise would not lend against litigation collateral alone may lend on a non-recourse basis against an insured position, funders may accept a lower return, and patent owners may raise more capital at a lower cost while retaining more upside.
For funders and investors. Collateral protection insurance can convert a litigation exposure into a more financeable insured credit risk, allowing funders to deploy more capital per transaction, lend rather than invest, and attract bank or institutional co-lenders.
For law firms. Work-in-progress or “WIP” insurance can protect a defined portion of a firm’s investment in contingency or hybrid-fee patent matters that conclude without sufficient recoveries, providing more stable collateral for financing and supporting more, and larger, alternative-fee engagements.
For patent owners and licensors. Litigation financing for enforcement in U.S. district courts, the ITC, the UPC, Germany, and other jurisdictions can be expensive and difficult to obtain. In an insurance-backed financing, a loan or investment secured by IP assets is paired with an insurance policy designed to respond if litigation and licensing proceeds are insufficient to repay the insured portion of the financing. Lenders that otherwise would not lend against litigation collateral alone may lend on a non-recourse basis against an insured position, funders may accept a lower return, and patent owners may raise more capital at a lower cost while retaining more upside.
For funders and investors. Collateral protection insurance can convert a litigation exposure into a more financeable insured credit risk, allowing funders to deploy more capital per transaction, lend rather than invest, and attract bank or institutional co-lenders.
For law firms. Work-in-progress or “WIP” insurance can protect a defined portion of a firm’s investment in contingency or hybrid-fee patent matters that conclude without sufficient recoveries, providing more stable collateral for financing and supporting more, and larger, alternative-fee engagements.
Docket Navigator
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.
Law.com
Law.com provides lawyers within the world’s leading law firms and legal departments (Global 200, Law.com subscribers, GCs at the F1000) with news and analysis of the global legal industry, insights into what’s happening across all sectors of the legal industry in all major markets around the world. Law.com is the world’s legal authority, offering quality local coverage with global insights & trends on the entire legal industry to give international lawyers the competitive edge and business intelligence needed to grow their business worldwide.
Lexology
Lexology delivers the most comprehensive source of international legal updates, analysis and insights. Publishing in excess of 450 articles every day from over 900 leading law firms and service providers worldwide across over 50 work areas in 25 languages. Lexology’s searchable archive now contains more than 1,000,000 articles. Endorsed by more than 100 associations, corporations and corporate counsel groups, Lexology is not only considered an invaluable resource of its kind, but also regarded as the industry benchmark.
International IP Commercialization Council
Established in 2014 in Hong Kong, IIPCC is a world-wide non-profit, apolitical, non-governmental organization, network, standard-setting organization, and think tank dedicated to serving SMEs and the entrepreneurial ecosystem with chapters in 40 geographies. We work with governments, industry organizations, NGOs, universities, etc. to design system and incentives, and provide education for the startups, entrepreneurs and the like to better commercialize their products and services.
Japan Intellectual Property Association
The Japan Intellectual Property Association (JIPA) is a non-profit, non-governmental organization representing "industries and users of the intellectual property (IP) system". It was established in 1938. It claims to be the largest private organization in Japan concerned with intellectual property rights, with more than one thousand members as of 2009.
Korea Intellectual Property Association
KINPA (Korea Intellectual Property Association) is an autonomous cooperation entity that forges ahead with diverse intra-industry endeavors, including reciprocal collaboration and joint research, while encompassing all areas of intellectual property in pursuit of advancing IP competitiveness of its members.
