Due diligence regarding specific product line
The objective is to highlight IP exposure for one specific product line of a company considered for acquisition, before deciding to evaluate the interest to generalize such work to all product lines.
The framework includes :
- Extraction of specific IPs from the targeted company patent portfolio,
- Evaluation, in detail, of such IPs for the product line,
- Evaluation of worldwide IPs involved in this product line (not by company),
- Evaluation of the IP Protection Index (IPPI) using a specific methodology (iPlife methodology) on detailed results,
- Conclusion on why protection is sufficient or insufficient.
Due diligence based IP assets
Analysis of patent portfolio
Creating an argumented database
- From a list of provided inputs, finding patent references from public data
- Suppying texts mentioned above
- Analysing the legal situation of each text
Technical analysis regarding texts / techno relevance
Risk analysis - Looking for dependencies in product portfolio
- Trying to identify external components / technologies HW/SW
- Results in terms of Risk analysis
- Listing items with no reponse
Risk analysis - Searching contracts'constraints
- Reviewing contracts of subcontractors, suppliers, customers
- Results in terms of Risk analysis
- Listin items with no reponse
Third party rights exposure risk analysis
- Confrontation of the company patent portfolios after the merger / acquisition and the patent portfolio of the major competitors for the targeted products and other patent-holdres detected without necessarily being exhaustive
- Synthesis in terms of risk of exposure
