Everyone has patents. Are they worth anything?
An issued patent is not the same as a strong one. Outside opinions on every asset in a deal are slow and expensive, so most diligence checks a few patents, or takes the portfolio on trust. Patenter identifies the risks in every patent and application in the deal, on your timeline, at a fixed price per asset.
Evaluate a single patent or application now, at a fixed price, or contact us to evaluate the whole portfolio.
A patent in the data room is a question, not an answer.
Issued means an examiner allowed the claims. It does not mean they would survive a challenge from a well-funded competitor, cover the product the company actually sells, or leave room to sell it without licensing a blocking patent. And a pending application is worth little until you know whether its claims are likely to issue. An outside opinion answers those questions for one asset at a time, at a price that rules out doing it for the whole portfolio. Patenter identifies those risks in every asset in the deal. At scale.
- →Validity exposure: the claims checked against 5M+ patents and publications
- →Pending applications: how likely the claims as filed are to survive examination against the prior art
- →Freedom to operate: claim charts for the blocking patents that could stop the company from practicing its own product
- →A recommended path and a risk posture for each asset
- →One view of the portfolio, so the strong assets stand out from the filler
Diligence on a deal timeline.
Run an assessment on every patent and application in a target's portfolio, at a fixed price per asset, and see where the IP is strong, where it's exposed and what to ask the founders.
- →One assessment per patent or application, for the whole portfolio
- →Freedom-to-operate claim charts that flag commercialization risks
- →Conservative and aggressive risk posture, per asset
- →Reports you can attach to an investment memo
Portfolio evaluation
We evaluate the target's full portfolio, every issued patent and pending application, and give you one view of what it is worth and where it is exposed.