Increasingly, leading businesses with significant intellectual property are monetizing assets in their patent portfolios. While for some the right strategy is direct monetization through patent enforcement, an increasingly attractive alternative is indirect monetization, where a business divests patents that may be redundant or no longer core to the business to a buyer that will either hold or further monetize them.
Legal finance has a critical role to play in IP monetization strategies. It can fund direct monetization through enforcement by shifting legal fees and expenses to a third party. When monetizing directly is not a fit for a company, financed divestitures can both remove the burden of patent office maintenance fees and ongoing patent prosecution legal fees and costs as well as generate significant liquidity for business.
Capital provision: Burford can provide finance acquisition capital for the initial patent purchase, funding for the legal fees and costs to be incurred as part of the future monetization strategy and working capital for the new patent owner’s entity
Resource access: Burford can introduce experienced legal counsel and other monetization resources to a potential buyer, enhancing the prospects of future success
Process facilitation: Burford can work directly with prospective bidders to evaluate monetization potential
Sale stability: Burford can provide assurance that an agreed transaction won’t fall apart due to lack of capital
Transaction confidentiality: Burford can provide a private transaction that can be structured in repeatable parts to smooth revenue over a longer financial period
Our IP team includes five lawyers on the IAM list of the top 300 global IP strategists and is ranked Band 1 by Chambers
We conduct all our diligence in-house, which often reveals information that directly benefits counsel as they build their case
We have a reputation for being the most innovative IP team in the business
We have the capital and sophistication to fund a range of IP monetization solutions
Burford's experts can help businesses find value hidden in their legal departments. Reach out to our team to learn more or to discuss a potential financing opportunity.
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