10,000+ patents, spending $10M’s per year, cross-licenses, and license potential with dozens of companies, what’s the value of the portfolio to the business? Is your patent strategy valuable to your company? How? OK, tag you are it, what is the answer? The problem seems intractable.

With an ever-increasing client interest in international patents, we wanted to explore how patent ranking for EP patents has been conducted and how those ranking systems can be integrated to allow comparison and ranking with US patents.

How do you find the highest quality patents reliably and efficiently? We share our methodology and have made the code and model available under a Creative Commons license.

We’ve identified five primary factors for consideration in patent ranking. In this article, we'll analyze how independent claim count, claim 1 word count, and family size & international filings can help to eliminate less useful patents quickly and efficiently.

Determining whether a patent is a "good" asset can be tricky. With a patent's value typically being realized almost ten years after its grant, how can we know the value of any newly-granted patent?