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IP portfolio management that keeps your patents and trademarks alive, aligned to the business, and free of dead weight, through docketing, renewals, strategic reviews, and decisions about what to keep, drop, or monetize.

An IP portfolio is not a set-and-forget asset; left alone it drifts out of alignment, racks up maintenance fees on rights you no longer need, and quietly lapses on the ones you do. We manage portfolios across patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets so yours stays current, deliberate, and worth what you pay to keep it.

Portfolio Assessment

We start by measuring your portfolio against where the business is actually headed. Which assets protect real products, where are the gaps, and how does your coverage compare to competitors in the same space? That assessment tells you whether you are over-invested in legacy rights, under-protected on key technology, or roughly where you should be, and it gives every later decision a factual basis.

Maintenance and Renewals

Missing a renewal deadline can forfeit a valuable right permanently. We handle the administrative load, maintenance fees, renewal filings, declarations of use, and the docketing that tracks every deadline, so nothing important slips through. You keep your active rights in force without your team having to babysit a calendar full of jurisdiction-specific due dates.

Optimization and Monetization

Not every asset earns its keep. We help you sort the portfolio into what to maintain, what to let lapse, and what to license or sell, using criteria tied to business value rather than habit. Pruning the dead weight cuts cost, and surfacing licensable rights can turn a cost center into a revenue line. Either way, you spend on the IP that does work.

Cross-Border Coordination

Portfolios that span countries need one strategy executed consistently, not a patchwork of local choices. We coordinate with foreign counsel to keep filings, renewals, and decisions aligned across jurisdictions, with consistent quality and a single point of accountability. You get a global portfolio that reads as one coherent plan instead of a stack of disconnected national files.

Frequently asked questions

Review it at least once a year, and any time your business strategy shifts, such as entering a new market or sunsetting a product line. Regular reviews keep your patents and trademarks aligned with where the business is actually going, so you're not paying to maintain rights you no longer need.

Consider dropping an asset when it no longer fits your strategy, has validity problems, or costs more to maintain than it returns. Before you abandon it, check whether someone might pay to license it. A patent you no longer use in your own products can still generate income.

Use a docketing system with redundant reminders so no single failure causes a miss. Missing a maintenance or renewal deadline can permanently kill a valuable right, and many missed deadlines can't be undone. The reliability of your tracking matters more than almost anything else in portfolio management.

The right metrics follow your goals, but common ones include how well your patents cover revenue-generating products, your competitive position, licensing income, enforcement results, and cost per asset. Tracking cost per asset alongside its value helps you spot dead weight. Pick a handful of measures tied to what you want the portfolio to do.

We coordinate with foreign counsel we trust in each jurisdiction so your strategy stays consistent while still meeting local rules and practices. Foreign portfolios have their own deadlines and procedural quirks, so the goal is one coherent strategy executed correctly in each country.

Dormant assets aren't automatically worthless, they may have licensing value, so evaluate that before you abandon them. At the same time, don't keep paying maintenance fees on rights with no realistic path to value. The test is whether there's a credible way the asset earns its keep, either through use or licensing.

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