• Essentiality CheckTM is a unique and specialized patent licensing firm. In particular, we only represent clients in Fair Reasonable and Non-Discriminatory (FRAND) patent licensing disputes. That is, Essentiality CheckTM assists companies approached by patent assertion entities claiming to hold standard essential patents and have been asked to take a FRAND license to their patents. Our typical clients are small to medium size company and start-ups. We handle FRAND licensing negotiations better than expensive law firms by using specialized tools to evaluate the patent claims of the asserted patents to assist in building defensive strategies to respond to the PAE's demand to take a patent license. Our patent evaluation licensing tools include both technical and patent law experts as well as software tools which can assist your in house legal teams in assessing whether asserted patentss present any problems.

Our SEP Check® patent essentiality assessment service assigns technically competent consultants (e.g., patent attorneys, agents or engineers) to various FRAND licensing projects matching technical consultant(s) based on their particular standards/technical areas of expertise. Our patent essentiality assessment counsultants create rebuttal claim charts which access the quality of asserted patent claim charts and provide invalidity positions. SEP Check® patent essentiality assessment service gets to the core issue in a FRAND licensing matter which is whether a particular patent's claim is map to an essential feature or function in a particular technical standards document.

Our Essentiality Score® patent licensing tool is a method to calculates a score associated with asserted individual patent or portfolios of patents which can assist in with valuing alledged patents claimed to be essential to a technical standards docuemnt. Further, our Essentiality Score® can also provide detailed explainations of the components of the score which can assist in patent licensing and litigation matters. ar

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