Hilco IP Merchant Banking is a leading provider of Intellectual Property advisory services, integrating IP expertise and technical experience, with established business and market acumen. Our goal is to empower you to protect and grow your business by helping you understand the content and potential of your patent portfolio to make informed IP and technology investment decisions.
Our knowledge of trading strategies, IP finance, monetization and capital solutions pertaining to patents across technologies enables us to provide a complete array of IP investment tools and services to our clients.
Hilco IP Merchant Banking is a leading provider of intellectual property (IP) advisory services. We integrate IP expertise and technical experience with demonstrated business and market acumen to deliver invaluable intelligence to our clients. Hilco IP Merchant Banking supports IP teams in monetization and advises on offensive and defensive strategies. We also support product teams in the creation of winning strategies to combat competitive threats. Our goal is to empower our clients to protect and grow their businesses by helping them to understand the content and potential of their patent portfolios and make well informed IP and technology investment decisions.
We accomplish this by working closely with each client to mine its portfolio, identify the best assets, improve that portfolio through continuation practices, and identify products that are infringing existing patents. We can further assist in leveraging assets through the reverse engineering of infringing products, demonstrating infringement with solid evidence of use by mapping out the specific details of infringement in support of a company or organization’s licensing and litigation efforts. This not only provides a return on IP investment by generating additional revenue, but strengthens the overall portfolio via industry recognition of its value in the intellectual property landscape.
- Reverse Engineering
- Premier Testing Capabilities
- Patent Mining
- Standards Analysis
- Claim Charts
- Defensive Support
- Prior Art Search
- Portfolio Development and Management
- Patent Valuation
- Patent Landscape
- IP Team Augmentation
- Expert Witness
-Market Analysis
Two key areas of IP Asset Management are serviced by Hilco, specifically IP Management Investments and IP Special Situations Investments. These include:
- Illiquid investments (3-5 year tenor) in monetization program
- IP-collateralized loans and IP-driven LBOs
- Liquid IP-based investments in stressed/distressed debt
- Activism
- Volatility trading
- Patent arbitrage
In IP investment, the single critical differentiator that sets Hilco apart from competitors is our multifaceted, best-in-class team of professionals.
Our team includes some of the IP investment and advisory industry’s most well-respected and capable experts, each of whom possess unique strengths in technical, business, financial and legal spheres. Their expertise, combined with a highly professional approach to customer service and a proven ability to deliver measurable results in all facets of IP analysis, investment and management, is truly unique in the industry.
