Building and managing an IP portfolio is often expensive. Understanding how IP is licensed and litigated allows identification of the real value-drivers for your business to support streamlining your portfolio to reduce costs, or identifying where additional resources should be invested.

An IP portfolio is often an underutilized source of revenue. Determine if you can extract value from your intellectual property via licensing, divesting, or using IP to drive sales, and the best approach for doing so.

Licensing demands and litigation threats from competitors and non-practicing entities are impossible to avoid. A proactive strategy can reduce the risk from such threats, and can help navigate to a successful outcome when they arise.

Acquiring IP or a technology-based business can be risky A careful assessment of that risk can help you to decide whether to purchase, and to properly value the acquisition.

Not all inventions can or should be patented, and in those situations one must often rely on trade secret protection.  The first step in strengthening your trade secret protections is a trade secret audit, which will help you identify your key trade secrets and what additional steps you should take to ensure that they are entitled to the strongest protection possible.

According to some sources, over 90% of developers rely on open source software components, and open source software is contained in 96% of codebases. But open source software comes with its own set of risks. Navigating those risks requires determining what open source is used in your codebase, evaluating whether it needs to be removed and the process for doing so, and educating your developers in the responsible use of open source.