Patent Buying Intelligence

The Problem

A well-executed patent buying program can give your company the leverage needed to win tough negotiations or settle litigation, but buying the right patents is difficult and time-consuming. Simply finding patents that match your business needs can be complex and even risky.

How We Can Help

We have tracked the patent market since 2009. At this point, our database of deals has approximately 300,000 patent assets totaling $46 billion in deal value. We have relationships with over 100 patent brokers and sellers in dozens of countries. We help buyers to search the market for the right assets. Our proprietary methodologies allow us to find the patents that are most relevant to you and to filter them to identify the ones that fit your needs.

Active Deal Flow Report

We do active outreach to source new packages matching your specifications. We screen, assess & rank the packages and provide a shortlist of the most promising potential deals

Deal Finder Report

We use our proprietary database to identify packages available in the market. We assess the packages, rank them, and provide a shortlist of the most promising ones

Custom Market Report

Our Custom Market Report provides market prices, litigation results, market trends, buying best practices, and much more to support strategic patent decisions

  • Finding relevant and accurate data on the patent marketplace for aiding in decision making is very difficult. Richardson Oliver Insights has built a credible and reliable process for gathering and organizing this information in a way that makes decision making and transaction diligence much easier.

    Gary Bender | Former VP of Worldwide Patent Strategy, Visa

  • Richardson Oliver Insights provides us with actionable data allowing us to make timely, business driven decisions when screening and assessing patents.

    Fergal Clark | Director IP Business Analysis at Lenovo

  • In our work, we depend on reliable high-quality data. For patent market data, Richardson Oliver Insights is the gold standard.

    Kevin Jakel | CEO Unified Patents

Case Studies & Publications

Featured
“The 2021 Brokered Patent Market.” Richardson et al. IAM Media (March 2022)

Since we started tracking the brokered patent market in 2012, we have seen more than $38 billion worth of patent assets offered on the market. As market information becomes more accessible, more companies participate and close deals.

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“How and Why LinkedIn Learned to Love Patents.” Harrington et. al. IAM Magazine Issue 82 (March 2017)

LinkedIn was a big brand name with a small patent portfolio – a combination that made it vulnerable to a patent attack. In 2012 the LinkedIn decided to do something about it.

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“Patent Purchases and Litigation Outcomes.” Lemley et al. 2016 Patently-O Patent L.J. 15 (December 2016)

The sales market for patent rights and their valuation can be a difficult road to navigate. To help shed some light on this, we teamed up with Professor Mark Lemley of Stanford Law School to explore patent litigation outcomes. We analyzed our data based on ownership and source to test our intuitions about the outcomes of litigated-purchased patents. The results may surprise you.

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“So, You Want to Buy Patents – 10 Best Practices in Corporate Patent Buying.” Richardson et al. IPWatchdog (January 2016)

By adopting a few best practices, you can design and execute a successful patent buying program for your company. The following is our list of the 10 best practices we’ve developed for patent buying.

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