Self-Paced Online Course

Patent Strategies

The strategic side of patents — how they're valued, asserted, defended, licensed, and monetized, and how the players in the patent landscape really operate.

  • Self-Paced
  • 20 Study Hours
  • 14 Sections
  • Certificate of Completion
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Course Introduction

About This Course

Patents as strategic business assets

Patent assertion, defensive measures, portfolio construction, and other strategic issues sit at the centre of this course. It moves beyond how patents are obtained to how they are used — as assets to be valued and monetized, and as instruments of leverage, litigation, and negotiation.

You'll work through the business models that have grown up around patents, including patent aggregators, non-practicing entities (NPEs), and defensive patent pools, alongside the transactions that move patents between parties: sales, licensing, cross-licensing, and the FRAND commitments that govern standards-essential patents.

A certificate of completion is awarded when you successfully complete the course.

Learning Objectives & Outcomes

What you'll be able to do

  • ✓Place a realistic value on patents when negotiating patent sale or licensing transactions.
  • ✓Recognize the nature of patents as weapons of litigation, and the roles of the various players in the patent landscape — NPEs, defensive aggregators, and patent pools.
  • ✓Suggest relevant patent strategies for startups, large corporations, NPEs, and other types of organizations.
  • ✓Explain how patent sale transactions are valued, negotiated, and structured.
  • ✓Set patent licensing and cross-licensing strategies.
  • ✓Negotiate the key provisions of patent sale and licensing transactions.
  • ✓Understand each of the key provisions of a patent purchase agreement (patent sale agreement).
  • ✓Appreciate the impact of standards and standards bodies, and the fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory (FRAND) requirements for licensing standards-essential patents.
  • ✓Identify the various ways patents can be monetized.
  • ✓Determine whether an invention is patentable and fits within the scope of patentable subject matter.
  • ✓Appreciate the role of patent claims under U.S. federal law.
  • ✓Determine whether a patent is being infringed.

Course Sections

Fourteen sections, in sequence

  1. 01Patent Monetization
  2. 02The Patent Landscape
  3. 03Patent Wars
  4. 04Patent Strategies for Corporate Product Marketers
  5. 05Patent & I.P. Strategies for Startups
  6. 06Patent Sales & Other I.P. Transactions
  7. 07Patent Injunctions — Blocking the Sale of Products
  8. 08Patent Portfolios
  9. 09Non-Practicing Entities
  10. 10Defensive Patent Aggregators
  11. 11Patent & I.P. Licensing
  12. 12Patent Cross-Licensing
  13. 13FRAND Licensing & Standards Bodies
  14. 14Patent Valuation

Goes Well With

Round out your I.P. and dealmaking toolkit

Patent strategy rarely operates alone. These SVBS courses fill in the legal and financial context that patent decisions are made in:

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