Essentiality Check, LLC advises companies with respect to patent licensings matters. In particular, so-called Fair Reasonable and Non-Discriminatory (FRAND) patent licensing matters. That is, Essentiality Check assist companies approached by patent assertion entities claiming to hold standard essential patents (SEPs) and have been asked to take a FRAND license to their SEPs. We handle FRAND licensing negotiations by using specialized tools to evaluate the patent claims of the asserted SEPs 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 SEPs present any problems.

Our SEP CheckTM service assigns technically competent consultants (e.g., patent attorneys, agents or engineers) to various projects based on particular technical areas of expertise to create SEP claim charts or to access the quality of SEP claim charts which are alledged to map a particular technical standards documents to a patent and/or patent application.

Our EssentialityTM Score patent licensing tool is a patent pending (private) web-based method to calculates a score associated with asserted individual SEPs or SEP Portfolios which can assist in with valuing alledged SEPs. Further our Essentiality ScoreTM 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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