Publications

ROI 2018 Annual Market Report Available Now - Covers $17 Billion in Patents

Since we started tracking the secondary patent market in 2011, we have identified more than $5.3 billion worth of sold patent assets and seen more than $16.7 billion worth of patent assets offered to the market. That's a lot of deals being brought to the market on a regular basis and many of the opportunities come from brokers.

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Richardson Oliver Insights Launches Suite of Patent Market Data and Analytics Solutions

Today, Richardson Oliver Insights launches a suite of data and analytics solutions providing patent buyers, sellers, and executives access to patent market data covering over 120,000 patent assets and nearly 5,000 deals. The data spans hundreds of technologies and market sectors including smartphones, wireless communications, cloud computing, social networking, OLED displays, and semiconductors.

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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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