WED - PIUG 2022 Virtual Meeting

W E D N E S D A Y M O R N I N G

IFI CLAIMS Ultimate Owner: A View of Patent Possession Claire Hammond (IFI CLAIMS Patent Services) 11:45 am – 12:15 pm

ABSTRACT We all know how difficult it is to track patent owner ship. In the beginning, of course, there is an assign ee, and the assignee owns the invention. But over time, in the course of doing business, IP assets and entire companies are sold to new owners; iterations of company names proliferate. The natural progres sion of business makes the simple question—Who owns What? —more complicated than it should be. Especially when it comes to hierarchical, multibil lion dollar entities. As intangible assets occupy an ever-growing portion of corporate balance sheets, understanding who owns the invention has never been more crucial to investors with an eye toward M&A. With IFI’s Ultimate Owner, our newest addi tion to our suite of patent offerings, we provide the conclusive answer to which entity owns what patent asset. The bedrock of Ultimate Owner is IFI CLAIMS’ deep involvement over seven decades in the propri etary and painstaking work of name standardization. Ultimate Owner interprets each name iteration, identifies where it belongs under public and pri vate-company corporate umbrellas, and then shows you who possesses the rights, giving you a clearer view of your target companies. Join us to learn more about how Ultimate Owner can support your M&A decisions, risk analyses, and competitive intelligence.

BIOGRAPHY Claire Hammond, Content Specialist at IFI CLAIMS Patent Services, applies her patent expertise and her application background to help review, analyze and map IFI’s data to ensure the highest quality standards. In her past roles she helped support and train user communities on a suite of IP tools. She was also a member on the IP tool team who helped to enhance different tools by automating processes, re ducing legal risk and identifying high value patents in their patent applications.

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