Design, Protect, Manage, and Leverage your technology IP with SI
Across the product life cycle – from product concept through design, manufacture, launch, maturity and reinvention – the most successful creators of technology take a proactive approach to their intellectual property (IP). The Semiconductor Insights (SI) Business Unit is the leader in the technical investigation of patents, circuits, and systems. SI’s customers hire the company to perform technical and patent analyses to improve their intellectual property and overall competitive position.
SI provides analyses for circuit, process and system-level technologies and patent portfolios. SI does this through product teardowns, circuit extraction, structural analysis, functional testing, and related analysis and trending of specific devices and patents. Typical products analyzed include, but are not limited to, memory (Flash and DRAM), logic processors, wireless communications, automotive electronics and consumer electronic systems.
Customer engagements can include custom projects for intellectual property and competitive intelligence purposes and open market engineering reports. The majority of SI customers hire the company to monetize their patent assets, protect market share, or defend their patent position.
SI’s life cycle IP consulting services include:
Strategic
IP Management: help clients develop a comprehensive
system to focus, develop, organize, acquire and
exploit intellectual property with the intent of
maximizing corporate return on investment;
IP
Landscape assessments: identify relevant papers,
patents and applications to define critical areas
and owners of IP in a particular technology space,
along with any unclaimed areas;
Licensing:
perform portfolio management and patent evaluation;
licensing target assessments; infringement consulting;
licensing and litigation support.
Patent
Brokerage: bring buyers and sellers together; help
prospective sellers mine their portfolios; produce
due diligence package for sellers.
SI
also offers open market engineering reports that are used
primarily for benchmarking competitive device performance,
estimated manufacturing cost and/or time to market.
See where Semiconductor
Insights
Business Unit fits in the Workflow
