Identifying potential targets for licensing, litigation or sale of a patent or complete patent portfolio.

BOS provides a list of companies that were trying to patent concepts similar to what we’re already patented by the input patents. The examiner used input patents to cite 102/103 rejections for patent applications filed by these companies. So, chances are these companies may be potential targets whose products can be reviewed in detail. Also, these companies may be interested in acquiring the input patents as they were working on trying to patent similar tech concepts.

Also, for some patent portfolios, there are some encumbrances (blacklisted companies). For that, the client asks for a list of companies. This list is quite handy to be shared with the client initially and get a quick heads up on which companies are whitelisted/blacklisted.

Example 1 – In one of the projects where we had to create charts against big companies. We needed to know what big companies are already blacklisted. The client asked us to send a list and I will check with my end client. Generally, this list can be obtained after we do a certain amount of analysis. So, how to get this list. We used BOS to get a list of tentative targets. Shared it with the client. And got a quick answer on excluding two of the listed companies. This helped us not spend efforts in the wrong direction without even starting the project.

Example 2 – we created a similar list using BOS and shared it with the client for his inputs if any of these companies are blacklisted. Based on that we quickly got an answer to exclude two of the listed companies.

Please note – this is not an exhaustive list of potential targets. This list along with some manual add-ons like competitors of companies already highlighted by BOS, major companies in the domain, etc. would provide the exhaustive list.