Patent Portfolio Management

Recently, we were given an opportunity by big company that is a pioneer in wireless field to evaluate its patent portfolio against another player in the market. We have prepared 10 high-quality Evidence of use claim charts. However, the client was a big elephant, we had a thirst in ourselves thinking that there should be more to it, so our team decided to add more value to the client by increasing the number of high-quality Evidence of use claim charts. So, we started with the extraction of standard essential patents from the client portfolio from our inhouse SEP module and identified corresponding standard compliant products of the target competitors. After identifying considerable standard compliant products of the target competitors, we began with comparing the claims of patent with the specifications of declared standard. With this strategy, we were able to prepare 8 new claim charts, thus increasing the value of the client’s portfolio.

We performed a portfolio analysis for one of our clients in the video conferencing domain to identify infringing products. We had provided the client with good 8 evidence-of-use claim charts and we had one other patent on our list which we believed was the best one that was surely infringing the competitor’s product, but as limited information was available about the specific feature of the software in the public domain. This eagerness pushed us to look for ways to prepare a good quality claim chart and hence we came up with a solution that we should connect and chat with customer support and know more about that feature from them. After cross-questioning the customer support representative, we had all the evidence in the chat history we required to complete the claim chart.