In-House Teams
You're paying renewal fees on hundreds of patents nobody has evaluated in years. I'll tell you which ones are earning their keep.
IP Advisory & Monetization
Your Patent Portfolio Is Either Making You Money Or Costing You Money.
I Help Companies Find Out Which - Then Fix It.
I'm Karl Maersch. I've spent 25+ years turning patent portfolios into revenue - as a litigator at Jones Day, running IP litigation worldwide at Dow Chemical, managing and supporting licensing at Eastman Kodak, and now as head of the Patent Advisory and Monetization practice at Hilco Global.
$2.0B Eastman Kodak IP revenue generated at Kodak
$550M Dow Chemical IP revenue generated at Dow
TOP 25 Forbes · IP Valuation Firms Hilco IP Services/Hilco Valuation Services
IAM 300 IAM Strategy 300 Named among the world’s leading IP strategists, multiple years running
The Problem
Every year, companies pay maintenance fees on patents that will never earn a dollar - while patents that could anchor a licensing program sit in plain sight in the same portfolio.
Thirty minutes is enough to tell you whether yours is worth a closer look.
How It Works
Every Engagement Follows The Same Arc
Whether it's a $10K look or a full monetization program.
Find Out What You Actually Have
We review the entire portfolio and build a technology taxonomy using patent data, internal metrics, and AI-based analysis. Most companies have never seen their own portfolio this clearly.
Separate The Assets From The Paper
We identify the high-value patents worth licensing, asserting, or defending - and the non-core patents that should be sold, dropped, or bundled. Both sides of that ledger are money.
Execute
Sale processes, licensing programs, litigation finance placement, strategic filings into white space. You choose the path; we run it. Advisory work pays for itself when the monetization starts.
Not sure which side of the ledger your portfolio is on?
Book a CallWho I Work With
Three Rooms, One Question
Law Firms
Your client has a portfolio question you can't bill for answering. I'm the call you make. The work comes back to you when it's time to file new patents or enforce.
Private Equity
Patent diligence pre-close, portfolio value creation post-close. If IP is in the deal thesis, it should be in the diligence.
Recent Work
An Assessment, Not An Assumption
Operating Companies · Independent Assessment
Is The Patent Strategy Actually Working? A Public Company Finds Out.
A public industrial supplier had spent years building a patent portfolio with no independent read on whether it was working. The assessment validated the strategy with evidence, and mapped the white space the company is now filing into.
In Their Words
What Clients Say
Karl and his team have done a number of patent strategy projects for us and the advice they provide is clear, reasonably priced and actionable.
General Counsel, Fortune 500 Company
I have referred multiple clients to Karl's team for patent monetization projects and they get results.
Partner, AmLaw 100 law firm
Karl and his team did a patent mining project to identify high value patents for one of our portfolio companies, put together evidence of use and damages models and helped us identify and retain contingent fee/funded litigation counsel to monetize the patents.
General Counsel, Private Equity Firm
The Most Expensive Patent Strategy Is Not Having One
Thirty minutes is enough to tell you whether yours is worth a closer look.
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