IP Strategic AnalysisOverview
Understanding Intellectual Property Assets
Intellectual property assets are a critical factor in business today. That’s why Michael Best created our IP Strategic Analysis process.
IP assets directly affect a company’s value. Yet it can be hard to gauge the strength and scope of an IP portfolio, whether for transactional due diligence or other needs. Michael Best helps clients understand—and build up—the strength of a company’s intellectual property assets.
Michael Best’s IP Strategic Analysis goes beyond the basics of conventional IP due diligence to give our clients and their advisors an essential tool in understanding a company’s value, IP assets, and competitors. We provide critical intelligence to help inform business decisions before and after close of a transaction.
We offer clients a key advantage: Michael Best brings together legal, industry, and technical knowledge in a unified approach.
Our Innovative Solution
We give you an in-depth study of an entire IP portfolio—including patents, trademarks, and licenses—with guidance on how to achieve efficiencies and understand the true value.
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Data + Smarts = Actionable Insight
Michael Best’s IP Strategic Analysis system uses data analytics as its foundation, augmented by our Intellectual Property team’s ability to interpret the data and distill it into clear, actionable advice for our clients. We’ll tell you how a company’s IP assets relate to its business, to the competitor landscape, and to the potential value of the company itself.
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Clear Reporting
We translate the complexities and nuances of IP into an easily digestible report to help you and your advisors complete valuation processes quickly and efficiently. This also gives our clients the advantage of competitive analysis that can be updated on a regular, repeatable basis.
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Informed Decision Making
More than just an IP assessment platform, our IP Strategic Analysis report gives decision-makers a roadmap with strategic steps to improve company IP portfolios. These strategies are designed to expose strengths and weaknesses of the portfolio, correct or address them in the face of changing market forces, and enhance the overall strength of the IP assets.
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M&A Deals
Our IP Strategic Analysis solution holds particular benefits for M&A deals, especially those involving a business that’s implementing new technologies or has unrealized value in its IP portfolio. Our approach includes:
- Detailed assessment of the company’s patent, trademark, and IP licensing portfolio.
- A business-centric IP report, including a high-level summary, scorecard, and interactive map to give you a complete picture of the IP assets, using easy-to-read data visualization.
- Analysis and ranking of opportunities to capture value in the IP assets, with recommended next steps to improve ROI post-acquisition or merger.
The Michael Best Difference
Deep Technical Knowledge
Michael Best’s internationally recognized Intellectual Property practice includes more than 150 practitioners. Not only are our lawyers, agents, engineers, and scientists deeply steeped in IP law—patent, trademark, copyright, trade secret, and licensing—we also understand the technology involved in a company's and its competitors’ IP assets.
Many of our professionals have advanced degrees in disciplines such as engineering, software, physics, biotechnology, and other areas, as well as direct experience working with the technologies we’re helping clients develop, leverage, and protect.
Strong Business Experience
Every transaction is different, and we treat it that way. As a full-service law firm, Michael Best adapts our approach for each deal and each client’s business goals. Our interdisciplinary team assists clients and their advisors on mergers and acquisitions, restructurings, joint ventures, and other corporate transactions, as well as finance and lending.
We work with diverse clients, from privately and publicly held companies to the banks and private equity investors that finance them. And in the emerging business and tech space, where IP is often a company’s main asset, our Venture Best group serves investors and start-ups.
Related People Preview Attorney's BiographyChris is a partner focusing his intellectual property practice on domestic and international patent matters relating to mechanical, electro-mechanical, medical, materials science, software, and business method technologies. He also helps clients acquire and enforce United States and foreign trademark rights, copyrights and trade secrets, negotiates intellectual property licenses and technology transfers, and prepares patentability and non-infringement opinions. His work applies strategic planning to intellectual property protection to help clients achieve their business goals.  Preview Attorney's BiographyKevin provides clients in a wide range of technologies with strategic counsel in the areas of procurement and enforcement of their patent portfolios both in the United States and around the world.  Preview Attorney's BiographyAlec serves as primary outside counsel to national, regional, and community banks on interest rate swaps, foreign exchange, commodities, and other derivatives product lines, including documentation for customer transactions and Dodd-Frank Act compliance. In addition, he represents end-users on interest rate swaps, foreign exchange, commodities, and other derivatives transactions and compliance. Alec also practices in the areas of commercial lending, corporate finance, and mergers and acquisitions.  Preview Attorney's BiographySteve serves as the Managing Partner of the firm’s Milwaukee office. Steve’s practice focuses on all aspects of U.S. and international patent prosecution in various technical fields including the automotive, agricultural, heat transfer, nuclear power generation, nuclear fuels and reactor fueling, security and safety, excavation and construction equipment, power generation and medical imaging industries.  Preview Attorney's BiographyClients value Greg’s strategic counsel relating to the protection of their intellectual property assets in the U.S. and abroad. Greg works extensively with clients in the life sciences, pharmaceutical, healthcare and chemical industries. His outstanding track record is built on successful outcomes in high-profile and high-value life sciences and chemical patent matters. Greg’s extensive background encompasses patent preparation and prosecution, enforcement,and technology dispute resolution, as well as licensing and opinion work.  Preview Attorney's BiographyLaura focuses on all aspects of trademark and copyright law. Clients value her practical advice and look to her for support with U.S. and international trademark clearance, prosecution, maintenance, licensing, due diligence, and enforcement. Clients also regularly seek Laura’s assistance with copyright registration and enforcement matters.  Preview Attorney's BiographyJeff helps clients capitalize on crucial technology and IP assets through licensing and other strategic alliances. He has extensive experience drafting and negotiating a full range of patent, trademark, and software licensing agreements, joint development agreement, collaborative, and sponsored research agreements, and material and university technology transfer agreements.  Preview Attorney's BiographyClients count on Glen for his sound legal advice, responsiveness and dedication regarding patent prosecution for the mechanical arts, including: motorcycles, refrigeration systems, vacuum cleaners, industrial pumps and compressors, air conditioning systems, and internal-combustion engines. Glen focuses on patent clearance as well as patent procurement. He works closely with clients to develop meaningful U.S. and international patent strategies that align with their business goals.
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