The Need for Specialized Expertise
In industries built on innovation, an understanding of intellectual property and its protection should be embedded into the product development process to improve R&D effectiveness, reduce risk of patent infringement and strengthen the company’s patent portfolio. Whether corporate strategy dictates a defensive or assertive stance on the use of intellectual property, the legal department often requires support from outside counsel and technical experts to achieve its mandate.
Both legal staff and outside counsel recognize that in patent infringement cases, access to public patent information is not enough. Detailed technical analysis is needed to provide case material for defensive or assertive patent purposes – the kind of hard, objective evidence of use that can drive successful patent compensation and cross-licensing negotiations. However, internal resources may not be available or qualified for the kind of time-sensitive, in-depth technical analysis demanded by business-critical patent projects. They may also not have access to parts or documentation necessary to demonstrate “evidence of use”. In other situations, legal advisors require support to help their clients evolve to a more assertive stance on IP for licensing and competitive purposes.
An Extension of Your Intellectual Property Team
TechInsights operates as an extension of your intellectual property team providing deep technical capabilities, broad prior-art experience and essential business intelligence to support your decision-making through:
- Technical analysis: functional testing, reverse engineering, circuit analysis and software algorithm extraction to establish hard evidence of use
- Competitive intelligence: understanding IP landscape (competitive IP holdings and management history, etc.)
- Patent intelligence: monitoring technology trends, uncover patents downstream from key technologies, identifying potential licensing/partnership opportunities, establishing prior art
We provide invaluable support for infringement investigations, prior art assessments and patent assertion cases. Our comprehensive analytical capabilities provide:
- Comprehensive support for identifying licensing targets
- Detailed reverse engineering and testing of electrical systems, integrated circuits and software
- In-depth technical analysis and matching of reverse engineering results to claim elements to assist in building infringement or invalidity arguments
Beyond support for patent licensing and litigation, TechInsights helps IP professionals design an IP lifecycle management strategy to:
- Maximize ROI and minimize cost of patent portfolio
- Ensure the creation of more valuable, higher quality patents
- Identify patents for acquisition and divestiture
Reputation Built on Decades of Success
With deep technical expertise combined with extensive patent experience, TechInsights bridges the gap between technologists and the legal profession. We provide valuable data and expert witness support that enables legal professionals to explain technology and patents in a courtroom situation.
Based on our years of involvement in patent litigation, we provide independent and respected third-party perspectives on a wide range of technical and intellectual property issues. Since we understand what can and cannot be proven, we also examine patent portfolios to evaluate commercial viability.
TechInsights reputation is built on decades of successful intellectual property engagements. The scale of our resources and our domain experience means we deliver fast, accurate results within tight timelines while meeting chain of custody requirements.
As the largest source of comprehensive IP services in the industry, our range of capabilities ensures that clients avoid disastrous delays that may arise when original plans must be modified during negotiations. Why take the risk of working with anyone else?
An Essential Partner
IP initiatives can be strategic or tactical, assertive or defensive, proactive or reactive. For business-critical projects that are beyond the resources or scope of your team, TechInsights sharpens your decision-making and provides the ammunition needed for success. We are widely respected within the legal community, working with the top litigators and frequently requested by major clients.
So whether you are a litigator on a tight timeline in need of prior art information or evidence of use that will stand up in court, a patent attorney looking to maximize the quality of patents or an IP specialist advising clients on IP strategy, TechInsights is an essential partner in your success.