Value-Added Solutions & Services

Becoming an Intellectual Ventures (IV^®) licensee opens doors to additional value-added solutions and services. Each of these is designed to address our customers’ short-term intellectual-property-related concerns while providing long-term leverage for their business success, including:

• Access to IV’s acquisitions channels to source and buy relevant intellectual property (IP)
• Extension of invention/R&D efforts through buying and building inventions
• Monetization of underutilized IP portfolio assets
• Mitigation of potential threats by collaborating on defensive strategies

IP for Defense (IPFD)
The frequency with which high-tech companies are involved in patent infringement litigation and the cost to defend such litigation are increasing. IV’s patents can serve as counter-assertion for accused infringers, enabling more efficient negotiations to reduce liabilities and achieve favorable licensing terms.

• Vlingo Corporation, responding to a suit filed by Nuance Communications, acquired key IV patents to bolster its defenses and help level the playing field.

Litigation Clearance
Legal, settlement, and damage award costs are daunting for companies whether the litigation each faces is active, pending, or a future possibility. IV collaborates with tech companies, Bridging the Invention Gap™ by procuring and then licensing patents in litigation, efficiently clearing billions of dollars of exposed product revenue.

• IV has invested more than $500M to successfully clear more than 100 active or imminent patent-infringement cases across multiple jurisdictions for our customers.

Strategic Buying
Identifying and acquiring patent rights within targeted technology areas of high importance and value helps companies reduce their Invention Gap exposure. But purchasing patent rights on the open market can be cost prohibitive for an individual company. Through the Strategic Buying process, IV pools resources to acquire these targeted assets and licenses them to our customers.

IP Monetization
The costs for companies to maintain a large patent portfolio can challenge valuable financial resources and disrupt management focus. IV helps companies identify underutilized assets in their portfolio and helps monetize those assets in a variety of ways by leveraging our expertise and efficient licensing channels.

Sponsored Invention
Sometimes, the invention a company needs to leapfrog its competitors or drive new innovations doesn’t exist yet. Through Sponsored Invention, IV collaborates with companies to generate and patent the inventions they need through joint brainstorming sessions that jumpstart the invention process.