| Purpose | Details |
|---|---|
| Patent Assertion/Enforcement | Validate Enforceability – Before filing an infringement lawsuit, make sure that the infringer doesn’t have a rope to rescue. |
| Defense against Infringement | First Line of Defense – When confronted by allegations of patent infringement, proof of invalidity based on prior art is the first line of defense. |
| Licensing IN | a) Product Improvement: License a patent that can improve your product & help you capture additional market share. b) Litigation: Identify prior arts of successful products, their rights & challenge in district court litigation OR destroy using PTAB. |
| Licensing Out | a) Needy Customer: Before you License your to those that really need it. b) Cross License: Cross-License your patent(s) in order to lower development costs. c) Fund: To accelerate projects on hold/generate revenue for future projects. |
| Patent Buying | Defensive Patent Aggregation: Before purchasing patents or patent rights from patent holders so they don’t end up in the hands of an individual or enterprise that can assert them. |
| Patent Selling | Marketing: Serves as a marketing material to sell the patent at a higher price. |
| Patent Commercialization
| Risk Identification before commercializing a technology |
| Patent Collateralization | Get Loans using patents from banks, equity investors and even angel investors – a) Lenders should conduct the search before approving loans to negotiate/grant the loan. b) Patent owners should conduct the search before applying loans to ask higher loan amount. |
| PTAB Proceedings – IPR, CBM & PGR | Challenge Patents in AIA – Companies challenging patents in America Invents Act reviews can present additional evidence of invalidity. |
| Opposition Proceeding | Parties to formally challenge the validity of a pending patent application (pre-grant opposition), of a granted patent (post-grant opposition) |
Mson's team has successfully delivered hundreds of prior-art searches for NXP in the past
Mson's team has successfully delivered many prior-art searches for Mediatek in the past. I believe their experts follow a systematic metholody that helps them identify the relevant art from one way or the other.