Intellectual Property

Intellectual Property Management & Monetization

Our professionals work with entities across all industries to manage their intellectual property (IP) portfolios by applying our decades of IP valuation expertise along with advanced data and analytic tools. In that regard, we can help IP owners maximize the return on their IP assets by providing strategy and transaction advisory services.

We provide deep industry and economic expertise to clients licensing and/or litigating FRAND-encumbered patents and patent portfolios. Licensing Standard Essential fair, reasonable, and nondiscriminatory (FRAND) -encumbered patents can be very complex. Licensors and licensees alike may need to demonstrate their willingness to both give and take a license on FRAND terms.

IP Portfolio Valuation

Our Portfolio Strategy solutions:

Competitive benchmarking for portfolio development
Assessing the market for comparable technologies and intellectual property assets
Identifying and valuing tangible and intangible assets
Accounting and financial records analysis
Portfolio analysis for current or future market applicability
Assessing value for monetization/protecting market share
Financial forecast analysis

Portfolio Execution solutions;

Planning and executing capital raising activities
Portfolio evaluation to maximize maintenance fee investment
Developing joint ventures for commercialization
Preparing sale and license models to assess value
Performing outreach and negotiating transactions
Providing IP valuation opinions and royalty audits

Licensing Advisory

Our vast experience in FRAND licensing provides the necessary foundation for assisting clients with the challenges associated with licensing new standards (e.g., 5G) or licensing more established standards in new industries.

Stelnicki helps clients in the following industries and applications:

Cellular infrastructure
Mobile devices
Memory modules and devices
Internet of things (IOT) suppliers and OEMS
Set-top-box OEMS and suppliers
Imaging applications
Video/audio applications
WIFI/DSL/Broadband devices and applications

Royalty Analysis

Our professionals develop and implement royalty compliance programs and perform audits of the royalties paid by licensees around the world. We have helped licensors recover millions of dollars in asserted rights relating to their copyrights, trademarks, and patents licensed to third parties.

We assist clients with:

Royalty compliance assessments
Develop risk assessment programs to manage multiple licensees
Detailed licensing contract reviews
Flexible modeling to calculate royalties under a multitude of contractual assumptions and interpretations