Patent Selling Intelligence

The Problem

Companies and individuals sell patents for a variety of reasons, but understanding the patent market is essential to develop a data-driven strategy for selling your patents. A data-driven strategy answers critical questions like: How should I price the deal? How should I package the deal to maximize value? Who is likely to buy the assets? When should I expect to see the proceeds? Which brokers are going to work best for my needs?

How We Can Help

Our data includes asking prices, selling rates, time to sale, technology areas, and much more. We offer data-driven insights on how to best structure your deals, what prices to ask for, and what to expect from a sales process. We create market reports custom-tailored to your industry and market questions.

Custom Market Report

Our Custom Market Report includes market prices, sales rates, buying & selling best practices, patent landscape trends, and much more to support the development of data-driven IP strategies. 

  • Richardson Oliver Insights supplies us with great analytics and data to help us better understand activity on IAM Market. They give us great insight into what assets are selling, and which are not. Invaluable!

    Gavin Stewart | Managing Director IP Division at Globe Business Media Group

  • Setting expectations with sellers and buyers about the patent market can be tough. The Richardson Oliver Insights market data helps me set those expectations and guide clients through the transaction process.

    Grant Moss | Founder and President of Adapt IP

Case Studies & Publications

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“When Do Operating Companies Sell Their Patents?” Richardson et al. IPWatchdog (August 2016)

What causes operating companies to sell their patents? Our intuition tells us that patent sales take place when the seller is in financial distress or the company is underperforming. We asked ourselves whether data aligned with our intuition.

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