"Intellectual property is the currency of the new
economy"
-John Howkins, Executive Chairman, Tornado Productions
We help finance and investor relations officers, investment analysts, venture
capitalists, intellectual property consultants and anyone in the financial
services industry make better business decisions, faster.
With intellectual property licensing revenues globally exceeding US $150
billion, intellectual property is growing in financial importance. Our solutions
can help you use intellectual property to generate revenue and increase
shareholder value for your clients.
- Identify new industries and markets for clients to exploit
- Spot key inventors to recommend to clients
- Monitor the activity of your clients' competitors
- Find gaps in clients' patent portfolios
- Discover new or additional uses for clients' existing patents
- Look for ways to sell or donate intellectual property to generate revenue
for clients
Licensing
Using our solutions, you can uncover lucrative in-licensing and out-licensing
opportunities for your clients, helping to generate premium returns for their
shareholders.
Look for in-licensing opportunities that will help your clients:
- Access crucial technologies
- Enter new markets
- Accelerate speed to market
Mergers and acquisitions support
Our solutions will help you give your clients invaluable support and advice
when they are considering mergers or acquisitions. As part of due diligence
studies, you can use our patent information to:
- Discover companies that are a good technological fit for your clients and
will help them grow
- Research the market position of target companies, by evaluating the
competitiveness of their patent portfolios
- Check whether targets have adequate intellectual property rights to their
technologies
- See if a target company is employing key inventors
Solutions for investors
Our solutions enable private equity investors, venture capitalists, analysts
and fund managers to analyse and assess the presence and quality of a company's
intellectual property strategy, before making an investment decision.
- Analyse a company's portfolio and geographical distribution of intellectual
property rights; to identify strengths and weaknesses and see if the company is
protecting and exploiting its intellectual property portfolio to the full.
- Determine a company's potential liability for infringing the intellectual
property rights of others
- Search for patents and patent applications in the names of key personnel to
discover if a company employs leading inventors and experts
- Monitor patenting activity of a company's competitors to ascertain the
market position of an investment target
Key Investment Research Products from Thomson Scientific
Thomson Patent Store - Obtain original patent documents from around the world quickly and easily.
Delphion® - An easy to use solution offering business and professional researchers full-text patent documents from the world's leading patent authorities.
Derwent World Patents Index® - Conduct precision searches of 14 million unique patent records, issued by 41 worldwide authorities and enhanced by our team of expert analysts.
Derwent World Patents Index First ViewSM - The new, fast-alerting companion file to Derwent World Patents Index.
Web of Science® - Access to current and retrospective multidisciplinary information, author abstracts, and cited references from approximately 8,500 of the most prestigious, high impact research journals in the world.
Patent Profiles - Fast and accurate current awareness of patenting activity.
