Private Equity · Patent Diligence
Operating Companies · Patent Mining
The Revenue Was Already In The Portfolio. Nobody Had Mined For It.
The Outcome
Multiple Paths, Running Now
The company is now implementing multiple monetization paths simultaneously, ranked by value and effort.
From Cost To Revenue
Converting a portfolio that had only ever cost money into one generating revenue.
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The Situation
The company held a substantial patent portfolio built over years of R&D - and treated it entirely as a cost center. Filing fees, maintenance fees, prosecution budgets. The question leadership brought to us was simple: is there revenue sitting in this portfolio that we're not collecting?
Most operating companies never ask. Their portfolios exist to protect products, and once the products ship, the patents sit. But a portfolio that only plays defense is leaving one of its two jobs undone - and every year of a patent's remaining term that passes unmonetized is value that expires with it.
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What We Did
Step 01
Mined The Entire Portfolio Systematically
We segmented the patents into multi-level technology buckets, then rated every patent on the three things that determine whether it can generate revenue: detectability (can infringement be observed in the market?), claim scope, and technology relevance.
Step 02
Separated The Assets From The Filing History
Using internal metrics, patent data, and proprietary AI-enabled tools, we identified the sets of genuinely high-value patents inside the broader portfolio - the ones worth acting on.
Step 03
Turned Analysis Into Options
For each high-value set, we built out concrete monetization paths - including potential target companies and potential value ranges - so leadership was choosing among real opportunities, not reviewing an abstract report.
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What Happened
Working directly with the legal leadership team and members of the C-suite, we helped the company rank the opportunities by value and effort. The company is now implementing multiple monetization paths simultaneously - converting a portfolio that had only ever cost money into one generating revenue.
The Cost Of Waiting
Thirty Minutes Is Enough To Know
Patents are wasting assets. Every year of remaining term that passes without a monetization review is revenue that can never be recovered - the clock doesn't pause while the portfolio sits in defense mode. Thirty minutes is enough to tell you whether there's revenue in yours worth mining.
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