Cutting-edge IP Services
A One-Stop Shop
Being the Reverse Engineering Lab itself, RevEng provides a unique and first-hand access to technical intelligence that is needed to effectively document and provide support to a patent portfolio development campaign. Supporting a claim element of a patent being enforced may require various analytical approaches including package or die cross-section analysis, characterization of materials used via EDS (Energy Dispersive Spectroscopy), planar analysis and/or circuit extraction. Having the in-house capability to provide patent portfolio development services together with the laboratory expertise needed to support a campaign makes RevEng one of the few entities in the industry that can deliver such an integrated approach.
Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained
The intellectual property of a company is represented by its patent portfolio. A patent portfolio is a collection of patents that is assigned and kept active by the company to either protect their design from being copied or infringed by other entities.
Having a patent portfolio is one thing, making full use of it is another. Maintaining a patent portfolio can be a costly endeavor due to the annual fees involved. A company must, therefore, effectively monetize its intellectual property. Patents are meant to protect a proprietary design from being used by others. They can be used to prevent an infringing product from being sold in a certain market jurisdiction. They can, however, also be used to generate revenue through Royalty. Royalty is negotiated based on the licensed use of patented design by others.
The owner of the patents may make use of their patents either for defensive or offensive reasons. Both approaches, however, require the need for finding proof that their invention, which is protected by their patents, are being used by an offending party.
A Diamond in the Rough
Patent portfolio development starts from patent mining all the way to claim chart documentation of select patents. Patent mining is used to selectively narrow down the list of potentially relevant patents whose infringement can be proven and supported. Claim chart documentation is the breaking down of the patent claims into elements and showing proof of use of these elements in an infringing product. Established relationships between IP service companies and Reverse Engineering Laboratories makes it possible for the IP service companies to gain access to technical intelligence needed for documenting infringement or non-authorized use of patented design.
