Targeting the revenues of other companies according to the patent assertion risk they present effectively defines your … patent development and external acquisition strategies. We show how to build a financial model to determine where you spend … your patent development and buying dollars and then how to calculate and ROI …

This paper develops a theory of patent portfolios in which firms accumulate an enormous amount of related patents in … diverse technology fields such that it becomes impractical to develop a new product that with certainty does not inadvertently … infringe on other firms ́patent portfolios. We investigate how litigation incentives for the holders of patent portfolios …

firms can use their patent stock as collateral and thereby relax possible debt financing restrictions. Using data from the … European Patent Office and balance sheet data of European companies, we find that larger and more valuable patent stocks lead …. Drawing on a legislative change in EU- law, allows us to establish a causal relationship between firms' patent portfolio and …