Due Diligence
Add value, not hours, conducting patent due diligence.
Why Due Diligence Matters
Due diligence is required in every transaction where patents play a role, across the full range of M&A transactions, joint ventures, licenses and collaborations, patent acquisition and divestment activities and even Inbound Patent Assertion.
With LexisNexis® PatentSight+ Classification (powered by Cipher) enables you to perform due diligence quickly and effectively to ensure you make the right transaction.
Are you asking yourself these questions?
How can I quickly identify if there is a great opportunity in buying patent assets?
How can I quickly assess a portfolio for M&A and not miss anything?
How can I identify patent assets for acquisition?
How to conduct due diligence
Identify your target
Either establish the group of assets that you want to sell or gather the assets that are for sale to review.
Analyze the proposed assets
Use Classification to identify the technology areas that the assets sit in, and then use PatentSight+ to analyze the competitive landscape to identify any red flags.
Review the litigation risk
Use PatentSight+ and Classification to understand the litigation risk for the assets.
Make a decision
Propose the best course of action having quickly and thoroughly reviewed the assets.
Mergers & Acquisitions Due Diligence
The LexisNexis® PatentSight+ analytics platform platform offers a systematic approach to scan the worldwide technology landscape for suitable acquisition targets or partners that will enhance your or your clients’ competitive position. Simply select the list of portfolios that need to be examined in detail, to fully understand the intrinsic value they hold within. Use PatentSight+ M&A analytics, to:
- Study acquisition targets’ patent portfolios
- Analyze innovation landscapes and technological fit
- Find key patents within portfolios
- Determine critical issues like average ages, remaining lifetimes or legal status
Assess Acquisition Targets
To ensure the success of an acquisition, the patent portfolios of the acquisition targets must be assessed for potential values, risks, and their technological fit. Patent Asset Index helps in assessing patent quality and reveals the true strength of the players in technology fields, enabling decision-makers to identify the key patents that require your explicit attention. Avoid having to read all patents and save remarkable amounts of time by finding answers to important questions:
- Are the targets particularly dependent on other competitors?
- Would this expose you to potential litigation?
- Do targets have patent that are highly influential in their industries?
- Are the technologies of interest to certain competitors?
Answering these questions can highlight critical patent issues. Assessing the technological fit may yield additional gains from an acquisition, well beyond what can be found on balance sheets. With PatentSight+ you are just a few clicks away from answers to these and many other relevant questions.
The impact of machine learning for legal professionals
We are at a point where budgets do not extend to manual review of thousands of patents. The legal sector is now embracing the potential of what machine learning and analytics can deliver..Nigel Swycher
Strategic Advisor
Founder of LexisNexis Cipher
Have you ever asked these questions?
How can I improve the efficiency of how I carry out due diligence?
PatentSight+ has the best in class corporate tree data ensuring you can see who owns what quickly. Classification in PatentSight+ allows you to see your assets in the technology landscapes they sit in quickly.
What’s the best way to understand a patent portfolio in context?
A downside of conventional due diligence is that you are limited to the company or assets in front of you. Using our technology you can automatically compare your target patents to any organization you select or to an algorithmically computed set of similar organizations.
Can I influence the M&A process earlier on?
Adding value to the initial stages of the M&A screening process would benefit all organizations, rather than the IP team being brought in when the deal is done. PatentSight+ allows you to quickly screen organizations and conduct due diligence on their patent portfolios. With PatentSight+ classification you can find organizations that the M&A team are not even considering.
LexisNexis Cipher’s role in a significant business acquisition
The due diligence around the acquisition of ARM by Softbank in 2016 for $31 billion was completed in a matter of days, as reported by Forbes.
A smooth and straightforward process
Our issue was how to fit other companies’ portfolios into that same framework that we use and there’s just no other tool other than Cipher that can do that.
Bob Pechman
Chief Intellectual Property Counsel
Seagate Technology
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Please fill out the form with your details, and we will get in touch to schedule a demo.
We are excited to show you an alternative to manually tagging patents and building long boolean queries to get your view of the technology landscape. With the automated classifiers, you can:
- Pull through all the latest patents in the technology area
- Analyze the results to understand new technology trends
- Benchmark your portfolio against your competitors
- Optimize your portfolio for monetisation or risk management
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More use cases enabled by patent analytics
Become more effective at managing your patent portfolio, identify worldwide relevant patents and technology trends, assess the competitive landscape, find partners and licensing opportunities.
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Technology scouting
Risk assessment
Licensing & monetization
