Patent Monetization: Evaluating Key Patents, Analyzing Options, and Implementing a Monetization Plan

Course Details
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On-Demand
- signal_cellular_alt Difficulty Level
Intermediate
- work Practice Area
Patent
- event Date
Wednesday, November 15, 2023
- schedule Time
1:00 p.m. ET./10:00 a.m. PT
- timer Program Length
90 minutes
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This 90-minute webinar is eligible in most states for 1.5 CLE credits.
This CLE course will provide guidance to patent counsel to understand the steps for identifying key patents and weighing the available options for monetization. The panel will offer best practices for implementing a monetization plan.
Faculty

Mr. Genet is responsible for investment sourcing, underwriting and monitoring. He is an accomplished attorney with nearly 20 years experience representing corporate clients in defending and monetizing intellectual property rights in a wide array of industries, including electronics, computers, software, telecommunications, medical devices and many others. Mr. Genet has significant experience litigating complex intellectual property matters in federal courts throughout the United States, and before the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Mr. Genet has also prosecuted patent applications and represented clients in interferences, ex parte reexaminations, and inter partes reviews in the United States Patent and Trademark Office. He has been recognized in 2017 as an Illinois Super Lawyer for IP Litigation. Prior to joining Longford Capital, Mr. Genet was a partner in the international law firm, Nixon Peabody LLP. While at Nixon Peabody, he served as the national leader of the firm’s IP Litigation practice group. Mr. Genet is a graduate of Purdue University and Chicago-Kent College of Law.

Mr. Plotkin has been a leader in software patents for 25 years leading technology companies and law firms worldwide turn to him to obtain patent protection in the U.S. for cutting-edge software in fields such as artificial intelligence (AI), quantum computing, autonomous vehicles, and speech recognition.  He has continued to consistently obtain software patents for clients even after the Alice Supreme Court decision stopped many high-tech companies and patent law firms from even attempting to obtain software patents. Mr. Plotkin is an MIT-educated computer scientist and engineer with a technical background matched by few, if any, other attorneys.  He has used his combination of technical knowledge and two decades of patent law expertise to develop a unique proprietary process for obtaining strong, broad, and defensible patents that maximizes the sale value of the patents and the clients that own them, increases the likelihood of success when the patents are enforced against competitors, and increases the strength of the patents against attacks by competitors.  Mr. Plotkin is also an innovator himself—he is a named inventor and owner of over 25 patents and patent applications.

 Mr. Stern is a partner in Nutter’s Litigation Department. He focuses his practice on patent litigation and has extensive trial experience representing multinational and entrepreneurial companies in federal and state courts nationwide, as well before the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) and in inter partes review (IPR) proceedings before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB). Mr. Stern has a strong background in both intellectual property litigation and complex commercial litigation, he assists clients in protecting and enforcing their rights. Mr. Stern combines impressive courtroom experience with knowledge of complex technologies that allows him to translate sophisticated subject matter into understandable concepts for judges and juries. He has represented numerous companies in patent litigations, including in the U.S. District Courts for the Eastern District of Texas, District of Delaware, and Northern District of California
Description
Unless you have a plan for how to use your patents, they can wind up simply as expensive pieces of paper. Instead, you can use patents as a significant source of revenue, whether from licensing, sale, settlements, or judgments. Most patent owners, however, are unaware of this. As a result, they leave the revenue that can be derived from those patent portfolios on the table.
And there are various ways that you can unlock the value of your patents, even if you do not have the capital do so.
In this webinar, you will learn about:
- The wide variety of funding mechanisms for financing patent monetization efforts that require little or no up-front investment from the patent owner.
- How patent owners can leverage such funding to engage in licensing or litigation effectively against large infringers in ways that would not be possible without external financing.
- Strategies for building patent portfolios that are designed from the outset for maximum monetization value.
- The types of patent monetization campaigns that are most appealing to funders.
- The types of expenses a funder will pay for in a monetization campaign.
- The growth of markets for selling and licensing patents without litigation.
The panelists, which include a patent attorney, patent litigator, and patent monetization funder, all with extensive experience in managing and monetizing patent portfolios, will explain a variety of approaches for generating revenue from patent portfolios, in an interactive discussion based on the most common situations they encounter. Bring your questions about the options that are available to you or your clients for an engaging conversation about the latest strategies for maximizing profit from patent portfolios.
Listen as our authoritative panel of patent attorneys examines the steps for identifying key patents, weighing the available options for monetization, and offers best practices for implementing a monetization plan. The panel will also examine legal issues commonly encountered and how the courts have addressed those issues.
Outline
- Patent monetization options
- Growing a patent portfolio to maximize monetization value
- Funding options and strategies
Benefits
The panel will review these and other key questions:
- What funding mechanisms are available for financing patent monetization?
- How can patent owners/companies monetize their patent assets without putting their core business in jeopardy?
- What options are available to leverage the value of a company's patents for monetization?
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