Patent Portfolio Manager Announcement

Portfolio Management Product Announcement

PatentCafe Adds Patent Portfolio Management Tool to its Intellectual
Property Management Solution;
Semantic Search Technology Helps IP Managers Exploit Patent Assets to
Find Licensees, Mitigate Litigation Risks.

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(Sacramento) April 27, 2005 - PatentCafe has introduced ICO? Portfolio
Manager, its latest add-on module for the company's ICO? Suite of =
patent
research and intellectual property management solutions for enterprise =
(
http://www.IAMcafe.com ).

"Nokia licenses from Acacia Technologies"; "Samsung licenses from
Universal Display"; "Borland licenses from Certicom"; "Lexar Media =
Inc.,
I-O Data Device and GoVideo license from Microsoft". Such headlines
clearly echo the dramatic rise in patent licensing, a necessity in
today's competitive technology environment.

Patent licensing leverages past R&D investment to boost bottom line
profits and grow shareholder value. Licensing is also used as a
defensive measure to mitigate the risks and expense of patent
infringement litigation.
 
ICO? Portfolio Manager is the first patent portfolio management =
solution
that applies advanced linguistic data mining capability of the ICO
semantic patent search engine to a company's entire patent portfolio.
The module helps patent attorneys, corporate counsel and IP managers
fully exploit their company's patent assets by helping identify new
licensees, mitigate litigation risk, and reduce duplicate R&D costs.

Direct URL: http://www.iamcafe.com/index.asp?option=PortfolioManager


Press release has been abbreviated for PIUG Posting. To read the full
release:
http://www.ipfrontline.com/depts/article.asp?id=2829&deptid=3

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Andy Gibbs
PatentCafe(r)

Tel: 530-671-0200
Fax 530-671-0201
441 Colusa Avenue, Yuba City, CA 95991
http://www.IAMcafe.com


Received on Wed Apr 27 2005 - 18:20:31