Found the cooperative. Set the rules together.
Three to five universities, research institutes or university hospitals start Patent Platform. Each one begins with a scan of its own patents.
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A clear view of your patents from day one.
A scan of your own patents
Every patent, where it is protected and what it costs — with one piece of advice each: earn, keep or stop paying.
A seat at the table
Decide with the other founders how income is shared, what members contribute and how the fund works.
First access to the team
The cooperative's business developers start with the founders' strongest patents.
Money, patents and expertise.
A yearly contribution
Scaled to your means. It pays for the shared team, the platform and the fund.
Only the ones you choose
You keep ownership. You give the team a mandate per patent and approve every deal.
Your domain experts
They check promising patents before companies are approached — also for other members.
Most of it goes to the patent owner.
Proposed rules. The founding members set the exact figures together.
Before any licence
Stopping payment on weak patents saves renewal fees from next year. That saving is yours.
Keeps good patents alive
If a promising patent is too expensive for you, the fund can pay its fees. It is repaid first from that patent's later income.
Lowers your contribution
Companies, other patent holders and investors can buy services. That income goes to the cooperative.
Four steps to the first licence.
Introduction
A call about your portfolio and what you want from it.
Scan
We scan your patents and walk you through the report.
Founding meeting
The founders agree contributions, the income split and the fund.
Start
The team offers the first patents to companies and investors.
Start with a scan of your own patents.
Leave your details and one of us will contact you for an introduction call. No commitment.
The cooperative's terms are proposals until the founding members agree them. Scores and advice help to sort patents; they are not legal or financial advice.