Intellectual Property

Looking to monetise your IP across the Asia Pacific, Europe or North America? Want to buy, sell or license patents? Or perhaps you’d like to offer your IP services, management software or analytical tools to the major corporates across major regions?

We have worked with IP service providers and the owners of IP assets across a range of sectors to develop and execute commercialisation strategies.

We have senior relationships within the IP and licensing groups at all the major corporates and a strong track record of securing deals.

If you'd like to discuss how we could help build your business overseas, please get in touch below.

By working with Intralink, we successfully concluded licence agreements with Canon, Seiko Epson, Komatsu and Samsung.

Tim Pohlmann – CEO, IPlytics

These are significant patent licensing deals, and Intralink exposed us to key customer contacts in the Japanese tech sector.

Steve Callister – COO, Ploughshare Innovations

Leadership

Will Jasprizza

Head of Practice

Will graduated from Sydney University with degrees in Science (biochemistry) and Law. He practised as a lawyer with a large Sydney law firm before moving to Japan in 1997. As the head of the Intralink IPR team, Will is responsible for licensing, patent acquisition and tech transfer projects across Asia Pacific. His clients include leading multinationals and he has closed a series of multimillion dollar agreements. He is based in our Tokyo office where he also serves as its managing director.

Client stories

Patent Owner

UK-based patent owner, BTG Plc, appointed us to manage its licensing programmes in Asia - engaging targets and concluding non-litigious commercial agreements.

We needed to cultivate personal relationships while understanding the decision making process and moving discussions forward towards agreement.

Over several years, we concluded paid-up licence agreements worth many millions of dollars with some of Japan’s best-known companies including NTT, Fujitsu, Hitachi and NEC.

Technology

Telecom and CE patents

Objective

Forge commercial agreements while avoiding litigation

Targets

Tier-1 electronics OEMs in Japan

Results

Multi-million dollar licensing agreements

IP analytics tool

IPlytics had a powerful IP analytics solution but no relationships with Asian corporations with large portfolios of Standard Essential Patents.

Using our contacts at the IP divisions of the biggest companies in Japan and Korea, we licensed its tech to leading SEP holding companies including major electronic device OEMs, global printing providers and construction equipment manufacturers.

We also led marketing activities across the region; exhibiting at the largest IP trade, running email campaigns and hosting events.

Technology

SEP & patent portfolio analytics tool

Markets

Japan & Korea

Targets

Major SEP & patent holders, IP consultancies

Results

Multiple recurring-revenue deals

Patent services

While Korea is one of the world's top 5 patent filers, it was nowhere near the top of RWS' markets. We were hired to figure out why and turn it around.

We engaged Korean patent law firms, bid in tenders from Koreas largest tech corporations and raised RWS' profile through local marketing.

Fast-forward to today: we've doubled RWS' Korean revenues - and we're not done yet ...

Product

IP translation, filing & search

Market

Korea

Targets

Korean patent law firms, chaebol IP depts & tech SMEs

Results

Onboarded 2 law firms & won sales with several tech conglomerates