Understanding the value of your technology to others is an opportunity to help your bottom line.

Identifying companies that may be interesting in licensing your technology is often of interest to patent holders.  While there are many ways to find companies in the chosen field, using patent data is a unique approach.

We search the patent and publication database using keywords that describe your technology, and find companies that are active in that field -- and related fields. 

The advantage of starting with the patent database is that the companies we find are already active with patents, thus demonstrating that they value intellectual property.  If they have an existing portfolio, they may be receptive to licensing in complementary technology.

An interesing note:  A recent study by McKinsey ("Getting More from Intellectual Property", by Meagan Dietz and Jeffrey Elton, McKinsey Quarterly, 2004 Number 4) found that "Companies can raise their overall licensing revenues by using in-licensing specifically to generate out-licensing revenues: that is, incorporating in-licensing ideas and technology to improve their own products and processes and then turning around and out-licensing the improved products."  They go on to say of that companies that engage in this in-to-out license activity, 64% of them derive more than 10% of corporate revenues from licensing.