How to decide the fate of patents in your portfolio ?

In looking at your patent portfolio, you realize that there are many decisions of great consequence, and you have to make them soon. Which patents should you maintain, which should you allow to lapse and if you want to license or even donate some of your hard-earned intellectual property, which patents and to whom should they go? 

(Making a decision, Decision making factors, Evaluation, Backward and forward citations, Analyze, Combining results)

How to decide the fate of patents in your portfolio

This white paper contains 7 pages of methodology that can help identify potential licensees, based upon industry-proven metrics, a track record of acquisitions and the ability to fill holes that a company may have identified, but not found yet. Armed with this information a tech transfer coordinator can feel confident about selling relevant technologies.