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TECHNICAL DUE DILIGENCE

HTS Identifies, analyzes, and documents patents crucial to your business success, using methodologies developed over years of practice.

Utilize our team of expert analysts to analyze patents to support litigation, licensing, Inter Partes Review (IPR), and divestment or acquisition.

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Portfolio Mining

Using both commercial and proprietary tools, HTS can search a large patent portfolio and isolate a set of patents most relevant to a specified technology domain, or most likely to read on the product-lines of a target competitor. The patents so identified will often then be moved forward to a Patent Assessment process.Portfolio Mining will assist customers who seek to better understand the strengths and weaknesses of their overall portfolios in new technology domains, or who are preparing themselves for licensing campaigns.

Prior Art Search

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Patent Assessment

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Infringement Theory Analysis

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Non-Infringement

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Portfolio Mining

Using both commercial and proprietary tools, HTS can search a large patent portfolio and isolate a set of patents most relevant to a specified technology domain, or most likely to read on the product-lines of a target competitor. The patents so identified will often then be moved forward to a Patent Assessment process. Portfolio Mining will assist customers who seek to better understand the strengths and weaknesses of their overall portfolios in new technology domains, or who are preparing themselves for licensing campaigns.

Prior Art Search

Using a structured three-stage process that provides incrementally deeper analysis and allows customers to control costs, HTS searches for and, where available, identifies prior-art for target patents. The Prior-Art Search service will be useful to customers who seek to invalidate patents being asserted against them, or to qualify the strength of patents under consideration for acquisition.

Patent Assessment

HTS®Expert Analysts assess the patents in a portfolio, using a multi-step, incremental process of CyberMetricTM Analysis, Quick Screen, Patent Screen, and First Diligence Review that involves investigation of such areas as likelihood of utilization, ease of detection, identification of patent novelty, target products and features, and overall patent strength. HTS customers use suchPatent Assessment exercises to identify the most valuable patents in their portfolios, or those best suited for use versus specific target competitors.

Infringement Theory Analysis

In Infringement Theory Analysis (ITA), an HTS®Expert Analyst systematically maps all claim elements in a patent’s independent claim to the documented features of a target product or service. For HTS clients, the findings of the ITA make it clear whether a well-supported claim-chart can be developed for a specific claim-to-target mapping.

Non-Infringement

In a Non-Infringement exercise, HTS®Expert Analysts seek to systematically demonstrate and document that a customer’s product or service does not infringe a competitor’s patent.The Non-Infringement Service is typically used as a defensive measure, when a customer has had it asserted against them that they are infringing specific patents.

Invalidity

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New Claim Chart

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Existing Claim Chart -
Review

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Existing Claim Chart -
Clean Up

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Patent Landscape

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Invalidity

Through the Invalidity Service, HTS®Expert Analysts work to document the reasons why a patent should be invalidated, through the identification of prior art, or other factors. An Invalidity exercise often involves a Prior-Art Search. HTS customers typically use the Invalidity Service to develop counter positions against patents that are being asserted against them in an adversarial licensing or litigation situation.

New Claim Chart

HTS®Expert Analysts create claim-charts for customers using either the customer’s template or one of HTS’s own templates. The claim-charting work is often preceded by an InfringementTheory Analysis that produces systematic Evidence-of-Use (EoU). HTS offers four levels of detail – Marketing, Rule 11, Licensing, and Litigation – in its claim-charting, depending upon customer requirements. Customers engage HTS to create claim-charts to prepare for licensing campaigns or to strengthen their defensive postures in specific technology domains.

Existing Claim Chart - Review

HTS provides detailed qualitative analysis and vetting of claim-charts provided by the customer.  Customers use claim-chart review both to strengthen charts they have created in-house, and to evaluate charts provided with patent portfolios for potential acquisition. Claim-ChartReview is sometimes used in conjunction with HTS’s Damages and ExposureAnalysis.

Existing Claim Chart - Clean Up

HTS®Expert Analysts can take Claim-Chart Review a step further, and work to improve customer claim-charts by adding additional Evidence-of-Use, clarifying the mappings of claim elements to evidence, or better documenting equivalencies in terminology.

Patent Landscape

Using commercially available and proprietary tools, HTS can create a patent landscape for a technology domain or for a target company that provides insights into existing IP profiles, into trends over time, and into the comparison of the customer’s portfolio to those of competitors, or for portfolios available for potential acquisition. Customers engage with HTS for patent landscaping when they need a high-level view to support strategic planning, competitor analysis, or evaluation of potential acquisition targets.

Strategic Prosecution -
Invention
Strategic Prosecution -
Evaluation
Strategic Prosecution -
Claim Guidance
Strategic Prosecution -
Unclaimed Subject Matter

Strategic Prosecution - Invention

Through its Strategic Prosecution Analysis Service, HTS provides customers guidance on how they may strengthen patents by filing for amended claims. With the Invention variant of this service, HTS®Expert Analysts evaluate the current claim-set and provide the customer with a detailed analysis of how well the claims capture the novel aspects of the patented technology, with an identification of where improvement is possible. Customers use this service to bolster their portfolios to support critical offensive and defensive initiatives.

Strategic Prosecution - Evaluation

Through its Strategic Prosecution Analysis Service, HTS provides customers guidance on how they may strengthen patents by filing for amended claims. With the Evaluation variant of this service, HTS®Expert Analysts evaluate the current claim set and provide the customer with a detailed analysis of the strengths and weaknesses, together with advice on aspects to consider for claim improvement. Customers use this service to bolster their portfolios to support critical offensive and defensive initiatives.

Strategic Prosecution - Claim Guidance

Through its Strategic Prosecution Analysis Service, HTS provides customers guidance on how they may strengthen patents by filing for amended claims. With the Claim Guidance variant of this service, HTS®Expert Analysts provide analysis and advice on how to better craft claim language to achieve specific objectives, such as strengthening reads on the products of an identified competitor. Customers use this service to bolster their portfolios to support critical offensive and defensive initiatives.

Strategic Prosecution - Unclaimed Subject Matter

Through its Strategic Prosecution Analysis Service, HTS provides customers guidance on how they may strengthen patents by filing for amended claims. With the Unclaimed Subject Matter variant of this service, HTS®Expert Analysts mine the patent specification for subject matter that is not captured in the current claim set, but that can support the development of claims that support customer objectives. The deliverable is a list of unclaimed subject matter that aligns with a competitor’s products, with suggested new claims or claim elements. Customers use this service to bolster their portfolios to support critical offensive and defensive initiatives.

FINANCIAL DUE DILIGENCE

Research past, present, and projected valuations and royalty rates for patents and portfolios in multiple technology sectors, using the HTS team of Expert Analysts.

Royalty Rate Calculation

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Damages & Exposure

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IP Liability

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Portfolio Valuation

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Royalty Rate Calculation

HTS®Expert Analysts can conduct research on prevailing royalty rates for patent portfolios in various technology regimes, including the estimation of prevailing royalty rates for Standards Essential Patents (SEP). HTS customers often use this service to help them prepare for negotiations related to royalty rates.

Damages & Exposure

HTS uses a systematic methodology centered on market size and potential revenues to help clients better understand their financial exposure when they are an assertion target, as well as providing estimates of reasonable expected damage awards when the customer is the asserting party. Customers use the Damages & Exposure Service when they are faced with licensing negotiations or the possibility of entering litigation, on either the defensive or offensive side.

IP Liability

HTS compares a group of subject companies on the basis of patent portfolio coverage and corresponding commercial sales of products embodying those portfolios.  This analysis is often conducted by technology category, including standards essential patent (SEP) projects like 3G/4G/5G and WiFi, and provides an estimate of relative financial position amongst the subject companies.  Customers use the IP Liability Service when they are faced with licensing negotiations, or the possibility of entering those negotiations, on either the defensive or offensive side.

Portfolio Valuation

HTS offers the valuation of patent portfolios as a service, using the market approach to valuation, income approach, cost approach, or a blend of the three approaches, depending upon the circumstances and customer objectives. Customers often engage HTS for Portfolio Valuation Services when they are preparing a portfolio for divestment, when they are preparing for price negotiations in a patent acquisition, or in cases in which they are considering the acquisition of a company where a significant portion of the value of the target entity is driven by its intellectual property.

BROKERAGE SERVICES

Use our unique brokerage process, based on linking well-qualified buyers and sellers with needs known to HTS, to achieve greater success in portfolio divestment and acquisition.

Employ HTS to perform valuation of patents and portfolios of high interest.

Acquisition Support

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Divestment Support

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Portfolio Valuation

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