Our annual brokered market report is now available for download. We look at the average asking price for patents, who are the biggest buyers and sellers, which brokers are most active, and what happens after the patents are bought.

10 Best Practices for Picking a Patent Broker

"In the next issue of IAM we will be publishing an article by Kent Richardson and Erik Oliver, of ROL Group, which looks at 186 patent packages – consisting of a total of 5,394 issued US patents and 7,595 total patent assets worldwide – offered by brokers and other sellers over the past three years.

Although sales of brokered patent packages reach an estimated $153 million a year, lack of data makes this a tricky market to evaluate. We attempt to illuminate this information void with our review of 186 patent packages consisting of a total of 5,394 issued US patents and 7,595 total patent assets worldwide.