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Fabricant LLP is a dynamic IP litigation boutique with unparalleled success enforcing or defending patent infringement claims involving the most important and cutting-edge technologies. We are experts representing plaintiffs and defendants in all high-tech industries including, audio processing, smartphone, semiconductor, automotive, payments, computer hardware and software, LED displays and lights, GPS location services among many others. Fabricant LLP is regularly ranked among the most active U.S. law firms representing patent owners in the courts and before the PTAB where it has achieved win rates for defeating validity challenges far above the national average.
GOLD LEVEL
Inventors, research institutes, and technology companies around the world count on Bunsow De Mory to protect and enforce their intellectual property rights by prosecuting in federal courts and the International Trade Commission, petitioning for and defending against challenges to patents, including Inter Partes Review (IPR) proceedings, before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB), and formulating and executing on patent license programs. In every forum, Bunsow De Mory takes on law firms 50 times its size and succeeds with a combination of legal, technical, and strategic expertise.
Longford Capital is a leading private investment company providing capital to law firms, public and private companies, universities, and others involved in large-scale, commercial legal disputes. Longford was one of the first litigation funds in the U.S. and is among the world’s largest litigation finance companies with more than $1.2 billion in assets under management. Longford offers a range of solutions to fund litigation costs and manage the financial risks of litigation. The firm invests in a variety of areas, including, contract breaches, antitrust/trade regulation, intellectual property (patent, trademark, copyright, and trade secret), bankruptcy, arbitrations, insurance matters, and mass/class actions.
Mintz creates breakthrough legal strategies that help our clients solve problems and forge ahead. Leveraging our incredible depth of experience in the sectors driving innovation and growth — including life sciences, technology, energy & sustainability, and private equity — we help clients protect and monetize their intellectual property. Our robust teams of IP and transactional attorneys partner with companies to unlock the value of their innovations — from building competitive portfolios to successfully navigating pivotal IP deals.
At Nokia, we create technology that helps the world act together. The world is facing fundamental challenges. Pressure on the planet is increasing, productivity is stalling and access to opportunity remains stubbornly unequal. Technology is central to the solution. Through technology leadership and trusted partnerships, we deliver critical networks to help address global issues. We have the power to bring together the world’s people, machines and devices, sensing and acting in real time at massive scale. Our critical networks go beyond connectivity to enable self-optimizing, intelligent systems both locally and globally.
Patlytics redefines patent analytics and discovery with a focus on infringement detection, alongside patent drafting, office actions, and competitive intelligence. Powered by LLMs and cutting-edge tech, our platform boosts patent workflow efficiency by 70-90%. We offer proactive scans across the competitive landscape to secure IP portfolios and maintain a competitive edge with real-time alerts and comprehensive reports. We add value to in-house counsel, law firms, and the innovation ecosystem. We are selectively open to key customers from Fortune 500s, top IP law firms, boutique consulting companies and more.
Robins Kaplan LLP is a national trial law firm with a long history of extraordinary courtroom victories in high stakes intellectual property and technology disputes. We have led multiple enforcement campaigns on behalf of IP rights holders where recoveries in each exceeded $100 million. We zealously represent and share risk with a broad range of clients, including some of world’s largest technology-oriented companies, innovative emerging companies, as well as individual inventors, authors, and developers.
SITAO IP, established in 2018, offers comprehensive IP services in China with a focus on patent monetization. The firm provides top-notch service from technical, legal, and business perspectives essential for successful licensing, transaction, and litigation. SITAO’s team of seasoned professionals excels in handling patent disputes, FRAND/SEP negotiations, and IP monetization programs involving advanced technologies. With extensive experience and a strategic approach, SITAO is dedicated to maximizing the value of clients' patent assets. At SITAO we firmly believe that great innovation should be respected and rewarded. It’s SITAO’s mission to help clients with “Attaining True Value of Great IP”.
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August Debouzy, with 25+ years of legal expertise, delivers seamless, strategic solutions to multinationals, startups, and non-profits in France and internationally. With 150 lawyers, including 36 partners, based in Paris and Brussels, we expertly handle cross-border IP transactions and disputes, focusing on growth, innovation, and compliance. Our team, fluent in 15 languages and supported by a global network of partner firms, offers tailored advice to ensure clients' legal success across all jurisdictions.
CAC Specialty’s Contingent & Litigation Risk Solutions Group is an integrated team of seasoned corporate litigators and senior investment bankers. Whether you are a litigation finance group, law firm, or corporate litigant, CAC’s industry-leading team can help you protect against downside litigation risk, lock in a core value to a legal asset, secure non-recourse financing to bring forward litigation proceeds, and decrease your cost of capital. CAC Specialty brings an innovative, proactive approach to insurance broking and structured solutions to solve your risk challenges – from the simple to the previously unsolvable.
Cole Schotz is an AmLaw 200 firm with nationwide representations and global reach. We are a team of over 180 attorneys — a curated collection of legal talent that have created a gallery of experience that we lend to the benefit of our clients. At Cole Schotz, we draw upon the goals of our clients as fuel and inspiration to deliver outcomes that exude excellence.
Curiam Capital is a private investment firm that provides financing for high-value litigation. Curiam specializes in finding flexible and creative solutions that allow parties to hire the lawyers of their choice to pursue strong legal claims. The investment process with Curiam is thorough but straightforward and efficient. Curiam’s team has decades of experience working on some of the largest and most complex litigations in United States history.
Fortress is a $49.3 billon global alternative asset manager, headquartered in New York, with over 900 employees, serving approximately 2,000 institutions and private investors. Fortress Credit business was launched in 2002 by Pete Briger. The Fortress Credit and Real Estate Platform of more than 600 people is a recognized leader in the private lender space and has invested over $195 billion in thousands of transactions across varied asset types, capital structures, and credits.
With more than 1,500 legal professionals in 19 cities worldwide, international law firm Gowling WLG provides clients with in-depth expertise in key global sectors and a suite of legal services at home and abroad. We pair this specific industry knowledge with renowned service area expertise to meet each client's unique needs. We see the world through our clients’ eyes, and collaborate across countries, offices, service areas and sectors to help them succeed.
Haley Guiliano handles high-stakes IP challenges. Our clients include start-ups and established businesses, across engineering and life science technologies. HG crafts and implements scaled solutions to support our clients' needs throughout the full lifecycle of IP; from securing rights to monetization. While HG is focused on meeting its clients' needs today, the firm is dedicated to developing the next generation of IP leadership to ensure long-term support for its clients' strategies.
Hilco IP Merchant Banking is a fully integrated intellectual property investment, advisory and monetization firm. In addition to a full suite of IP advisory services, HIPMB acquires and monetizes the highest quality IP to provide liquidity and risk transfer to leading innovators. From origination through monetization, HIPMB combines leading global special solutions investors with chief technology officers, licensing heads and senior technologists from world leading technology companies in the pursuit of IP value creation.
InterDigital develops mobile and video technologies that are at the core of devices, networks, and services worldwide. We solve many of the industry’s most critical and complex technical challenges, inventing solutions for more efficient broadband networks, better video delivery, and richer multimedia experiences years ahead of market deployment. InterDigital has licenses and strategic relationships with many of the world’s leading technology companies.
IPValue’s mission is to fuel innovation by working with leading technology enterprises to unlock value from their intellectual property portfolios. Since inception in 2001, IPValue has generated billions of dollars from patent licenses for its partners, while promoting freedom to operate and delivering other strategic benefits. IPValue currently owns and manages the commercialization of over 10,000 patents representing the creative works of thousands of inventors.
Kasowitz Benson Torres LLP’s core focus is commercial litigation, complemented by our exceptionally strong intellectual property, bankruptcy/restructuring and real estate transactional practices. We have extensive trial experience and are always trial-ready, representing both plaintiffs and defendants in every area of litigation. Our clients include Fortune 500 companies, private equity and other investment firms across a wide range of industries, including significant experience across financial services, technology and real estate.
Licks Attorneys is one of Brazil’s most respected law firms in litigation. Our commitment to clients is unprecedent in the country. We focus on complex litigation, often technology-driven disputes. Our lawyers have an outstanding track-record handling the most high-profile intellectual property and regulatory disputes in Brazil. Our practice shapes the development and direction of intellectual property and technology law.
Liston Abramson is an international litigation boutique based in NYC. We have a winning track record in and outside of the courtroom, thanks to our deep bench of experience. We represent and advise high tech entrepreneurs and content creators whose intellectual property rights are being infringed, as well those accused of infringing IP rights. We also represent and advise companies and individuals dealing with complex business disputes, white collar criminal matters, internal investigations, criminal referrals, copyright and anti-piracy investigations, and more.
Lumenci is a full-service IP consulting firm dedicated to extracting maximum value from IP assets and providing technical, valuation, and strategic advice to patent owners and law firms to drive successful results.
With a global footprint spanning Austin, New York, San Francisco Bay Area, and New Delhi, India, Lumenci gathers over 100 technical and valuation/damages experts under one roof. Lumenci’s work has saved clients over $3 billion in verdicts, settlements, and cost savings.
McKool Smith, with over 130 trial lawyers in offices across the U.S., is recognized as one of America's leading firms. The firm has secured 16 nine-figure and 16 eight-figure jury verdicts, earning more "Top 100 Verdicts" than any other law firm. Their courtroom success has critical acclaim, with The Wall Street Journal calling McKool Smith “one of the biggest law firm success stories of the past decade.” They handle complex litigation, intellectual property, and more.
Moat Metrics delivers next generation intelligence through its proprietary AI Platform, Innovation Alpha™. Innovation Alpha reveals a company's demonstrated innovation behavior at both a product and market level, providing insights into the company's future, value, and competitive positioning and market differentiators. Moat’s Innovation Alpha™ improves investment decisions, while dramatically reducing the cost of sourcing and diligence so users can consider vastly more prospects, faster, in more detail, and at less cost to gain asymmetric advantages.
Pretium is an alternative investment management firm with over $50 billion in assets under management focused on innovating in single-family real estate, residential credit and structured and corporate credit markets. Pretium’s investment strategy seeks to capitalize on disruptions in traditional markets and drive superior returns through a unique platform-oriented approach.
Prince Lobel Tye LLP is a full-service law firm headquartered in Boston. The firm’s IP group focuses on monetization programs, often beginning at the mining stage with a tested process to select patents and craft an assertion strategy supported by the firm’s trial-tested litigation team. Prince Lobel partners with clients to reach practical, profitable resolutions. The firm’s IP partners have earned clients more than $1 billion in revenue from licensing and settlements to date.
Quest creates shareholder value through investment and management interests in intellectual property assets, such as patents, trademarks, copyrights, novel inventions and trade secrets. Through our business, shareholders have the opportunity to participate across a broad portfolio of dynamic assets in the burgeoning intellectual property space. Quest provides IP asset owners and stakeholders – including inventors, law firms, estates, small businesses and corporations – with a valued resource for protection, management and monetization of IP assets.
RPX is the leading patent risk management platform, offering defensive buying, acquisition syndication, patent intelligence, and advisory services. Since its founding in 2008, RPX has introduced efficiency to the patent market by providing a rational alternative to litigation. As of March 31, 2024, RPX has invested over $4B to acquire rights to more than 200,000 US and international patent assets on behalf of more than 450 clients.
We work to unlock and add value in new and inventive ways. This is our passion; it’s what drives us. Our approach to serving our clients, colleagues, and our communities has made us one of the highest performing firms nationally in workplace satisfaction, client satisfaction, diversity traction, and growth. Spencer Fane is a full-service law firm with more than 520 attorneys across 26 offices. Attorneys are organized into 22 primary practices.
Taylor English Duma LLP is a full-service law firm headquartered in Atlanta, GA. Built from the ground up to provide highest-quality legal services for optimal value, the firm combines the best aspects of a traditional law firm with seasoned attorneys managing their practices throughout the United States. Together, our attorneys work each day to provide timely, creative, and cost-effective counsel to help clients solve problems and achieve goals.
Tech+IP Capital uses a unique mix of industry knowledge, Wall Street banking experience, and large-scale IP monetization experience, to create bespoke solutions for assets not best measured by EBITDA. With our depth of technical and IP expertise, we can assess the intrinsic financial value of intangible assets and design a bespoke monetization strategy for any context. Our team has an extensive history of executing Tech+IP M&A transactions and financings through changing market conditions.
West U Capital is a private investment firm dedicated to investments in intellectual property. We craft customized capital investment structures, incorporating debt, equity, and the direct acquisition of intellectual property. Founded by IP industry veterans and bolstered by top-tier talent, West U possesses the experience and expertise necessary for our bespoke investment approach. Our objective is to implement the optimal strategy for shared success.
Wi-LAN acquires and manages innovative patented technologies. Wi-LAN uses it patent, technology, and legal expertise to unlock the value of companies’ patent portfolios and has signed over 500 licenses and generated more than $1B in IP revenue. Wi-LAN operates in a variety of markets, including automotive, digital television, internet, medical, semiconductor, and wireless communication technologies.
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Adeia is a leading R&D and intellectual property (IP) licensing company that accelerates the adoption of innovative technologies in the media and semiconductor industries. Adeia’s fundamental innovations underpin technology solutions that are shaping and elevating the future of digital entertainment and electronics.
Saul Ewing is a full-service, law firm with specialized practices in IP and Litigation Finance. Our attorneys advise litigation funders, investors, insurers and other clients by underwriting and analyzing litigation risks surrounding potential litigation claims, jury verdicts, case merits, and appeals of intellectual property, patent, trade secret, and commercial cases.
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Kramer Alberti Lim & Tonkovich LLP is a premier patent litigation firm recognized as one of the most active and high-performing firms in the country. They are highly experienced, battle tested patent trial attorneys described as “Legal Lions” by IP Law360 for substantial trial victories, nationally known as among the best in the country having a long track record of winning cases, including a $174 million patent infringement verdict, the largest verdict in the history of the Sherman Division of E.D. Texas. The firm has the prestigious honor of being named to both the National Law Journal’s and the Texas Lawyer’s lists of winners of Top Verdicts.
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Generating revenue from a patent portfolio involves much more than finding “valuable” assets. Litigation finance firms are willing to underwrite monetization efforts, but need to have a compelling case. At CAsE Analysis we specialize in helping you build that case, acting as your strategic business partner through identification of infringed assets, advising on the development of damages cases and continuations/re-exams, and overall monetization strategy.