Transform IP Assets Into Market Advantage
Your patent portfolio represents years of innovation, investment, and competitive positioning. Those assets deserve strategic management that maximizes their value, whether through licensing revenue, acquisition opportunities, or a strengthened market position.
Effective portfolio management requires understanding your technology roadmap, competitive landscape, and business goals. We help clients identify licensing opportunities for underutilized assets, evaluate acquisition targets for IP strength, structure deals that protect your interests, and position portfolios for maximum valuation when selling.
Technical expertise combined with transaction experience ensures your IP investments deliver tangible results.
Why Strategic Portfolio Management Matters
Strategic portfolio management goes beyond tracking what you own. It requires understanding your business, aligning IP strategy with company goals, and building systems that keep intellectual property connected to decision-making across your organization.
- Know What You Have: Effective management starts with more than an inventory of patents, trademarks, and registrations. We provide meaningful portfolio reviews that identify what drives competitive advantage, flag monetization opportunities, and eliminate costs from assets that no longer serve your business.
- Know What You Need: We help clients coordinate business plans, technology roadmaps, and competitive intelligence into cohesive IP strategy. This ensures resources protect what matters rather than accumulating disconnected assets, and keeps IP needs visible across all levels of the enterprise.
- Acquire What You Need: Beyond core protection services for new inventions, we identify opportunities to fill portfolio gaps through licensing, acquisition, joint ventures, or other business arrangements. When you’re evaluating transactions, we provide rigorous analysis to inform valuation, identify risks, and structure deals that protect your interests.
Our Portfolio Management Approach
Success requires understanding both technical merits and business implications. Thomas Horstemeyer delivers both consistently. We begin by understanding your business in detail: your technology roadmap, competitive landscape, and business objectives.
Working with your technical teams, business units, and executive leadership, we identify the protection you are missing, the areas where you are overspending, and opportunities for IP to generate revenue rather than function purely as a defensive expense.
Portfolio Management & Monetization Services
Assessing and Developing IP Operations
- Internal Operations: We build IP operations that align with business growth and scale as enterprise needs evolve.
- Portfolio Intelligence: We deliver portfolio analysis, patent landscape mapping, and patent mining that reveal competitive positioning and strategic opportunities.
Understanding Your IP Rights
- Due Diligence and Risk Assessment: We conduct infringement analyses, right-to-use assessments, and validity evaluations that inform critical business decisions.
- Strategic Counseling: We provide opinions and strategic guidance that address specific business scenarios, from product launches to partnerships and competitive responses.
Developing and Managing Your Rights
- Strategic Prosecution: We handle patent and trademark prosecution aligned with business objectives rather than isolated from commercial reality.
- Acquisition and Collaboration: We navigate IP acquisitions, technical collaborations, and strategic partnerships that build portfolio strength efficiently.
Using and Transferring Your Rights
- Monetization Programs: We develop licensing programs, patent sales, private auctions, and divestitures that convert IP assets into revenue streams.
- Transaction Management: We handle cross-licensing, settlement agreements, and IP transactions that protect your interests while enabling deals.
- Standards and Regulatory: We address patent pooling, standards participation, and regulatory matters that affect technology commercialization.
Our Comprehensive Portfolio Experience
We represent clients across all portfolio management aspects: assessment, prosecution, acquisition, licensing, monetization, and transactions. Our experience extends to startups building initial portfolios through Fortune 500 companies, managing thousands of assets globally.
We coordinate portfolio strategy with litigation, prosecution, and business development, ensuring IP management advances broader business objectives rather than existing as isolated legal functions.
Industries We Serve
Our portfolio work spans diverse technical fields where competitive analysis requires genuine technical fluency. Examples include:
- FinTech
- Software and AI Systems
- Automotive Engineering
- Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical
- Consumer Products
- Defense and Military Applications
What You Gain Working With Thomas Horstemeyer
- Business-focused portfolio strategy
- Integrated litigation and prosecution teams
- Assigned relationship attorney with direct access
- Nearly 30 years of exclusive IP focus
Manage Portfolios With Attorneys Who Understand Business
Intellectual property portfolios determine competitive position and revenue potential when managed strategically. Work with attorneys who combine technical expertise with a business perspective to maximize portfolio value.