In the current legal environment, with patent litigation on the decline (especially in the U.S.), patent licensing (and related transactions) are heating up.

We explore how you can model the expected cost and revenue of your ongoing cross-licensing negotiations to make it easier to prioritize your activities, and how doing that helps you run your cross-licensing program like a business.

Most high technology companies have a good grasp of the challenges and solutions for dealing with patent trolls. However, successful high technology startups face a threat beyond patent trolls: large corporate patent asserters looking to license their patents.

Intellectual Ventures has multiple funds. If you have to take a patent license, how do you account for their smaller funds (ISF & IDF) during a negotiation.