The Six Questions and Our Solution Suites
IP ADVANTAGE™ SOLUTION SUITES FROM PERCEPTION PARTNERS help clients understand, quantify and maximize the value of IP and innovation. We do this by providing the Story Behind the Story™ related to six key business questions.
The Six Questions
Perception Partners specializes in addressing particular challenges related to competition, open innovation, patent strategy, valuation and litigation. What follows is the list of guiding questions we address in our Solution Suites.
- What changes are taking place in the competitive environment today that could reinforce or undermine our IP position tomorrow?
- Which emerging opportunities or white spaces are of sufficient value and minimal risk to explore or further discover?
- How can we identify the best development, licensing or strategic partners to accelerate our pipeline?
- Which external IP and innovations will provide new, valuable and defensible capabilities most rapidly and cost effectively?
- How can we confirm the freedom to operate or, how can we prove that patents are being infringed?
- What is the fair value of IP or intangibles in licensing, sale, disposition or transfer, and how can we execute a successful plan for value extraction?
Solution Suite Deliverables
Executive Management Reports
Executive Management Reports include detailed-yet-understandable analytics, cogent insights, clear methodologies and succinct recommendations for action. A team of Perception Partners relationship management and project management professionals presents each Report to clients at the conclusion of each project.
All You Can Ask™ Reviews
Included in every project and for one full year after project kickoff, Perception Partners professionals remain available to address follow-up questions as they inevitably arise. Time after time, new client stakeholders need to be brought up to speed on previous efforts, and cross-functional client teams need to be led through a project's accompanying data. Our clients consistently note the value in this persistent method of storytelling that focuses on developing shared understanding as facts emerge.
Interactive Discovery Databases
Project data and analytics are contained in Interactive Discovery Databases custom-built for each engagement. Databases contain cleaned, categorized and ranked documents that support our screening analyses. Database data is made available to clients via online reviews, in Excel files, in projects/folders within other online IP tools, as RSS feeds, or in other convenient forms. Databases are designed to be easily annotated and updated on a periodic basis for monitoring purposes.
Negotiated Terms
Perception Partners may be asked to bring buyers and sellers together. Deliverables in these cases are executed term sheets. Term sheets contain the framework of financial, IP and other contractual obligations of all parties. Perception Partners then works shoulder to shoulder with client counsel to ensure term sheets evolve into closed contracts that deliver on business objectives.