System for identifying potential licensees of a source patent portfolio

Number of patents in Portfolio can not be more than 2000

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PATENT NO 6879990
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09560397

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A list of potential licensees of a patent portfolio can be generated from a source patent portfolio. To identify the licensees, the source patent portfolio comprising, for example, all the patents owned by a particular entity, can be created. Next, a list of a set of patents that are related to or associated with the patents in the source patent portfolio is generated. The unlicensed assignees of patents in this set of related patents are organized according to various criteria. For example, the assignees could be ranked based on the ratio of total patents held by an assignee to the number of patents in the set of associated patents held by that assignee. Such rankings can provide an indication of assignees that may be potential licensees of the patents in the source patent portfolio.

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  • THOMSON REUTERS GLOBAL RESOURCES UNLIMITED COMPANY

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Boyer, Stephen K San Jose, CA 16 433
Miller, Alex Aptos, CA 11 402

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