Corporate Patent Acquisitions
$295
About the Course
If you want to sell your patents to an operating company, you really need to listen to
this webinar. This session illuminates an otherwise opaque realm of patent monetization.
The speaker discusses how to best sell patents to operating companies, including
preparing claims charts and demand letters, timing negotiations, and identifying the
right negotiating counterparts inside large companies.
The following are among the issues discussed during this unique webinar:
- •When companies are most receptive to purchasing patents
- •Reducing risks of potential buyers moving to invalidate patents or seek declaratory judgments
- •Characteristics of patents more likely to sell, including prior art, claims, families, and remaining life
- •The importance of dependent claims relative to independent claims
- •When evidence of infringement may be improperly obtained
- •Valuation methods favored by corporate patent buyers
- •The enforceability value of expired patents for past infringement
- •The relevance of forward citations in assessing patent salability
- •Why corporations use intermediaries to disguise identities during acquisitions
- •When the identities of secretive corporate buyers are revealed
- •Differences between privately held and publicly traded corporate patent buyers
- •Strategies for narrowing patent targets during negotiations
- •Downsides of signing NDAs with potential patent buyers
- •Why recent transaction-based patent values may be understated
Course Leader
Sanjay Prasad, Founder, Prasad IP, PC
Prasad IP, PC is a Silicon Valley–based intellectual property boutique providing advisory
and transactional services to emerging and established companies, universities,
governments, and individuals.
Sanjay has over 25 years of experience across all phases of intellectual property law,
licensing, and monetization, including advising senior management and boards on IP
strategy, corporate IP programs, patent acquisition, licensing, and risk mitigation.
Course Length
Approx. 1.5 hours
Pricing
$295.00 per user