Leading edge companies and licensing professionals in the semiconductor industry require in-depth technical and patent analyses of integrated circuits to meet their product and intellectual property goals. However, as integration complexity increases it becomes more difficult to keep pace with technology advances from aggressive semiconductor companies and wafer foundries.
Chip makers looking to benchmark competing devices, improve time to market and safeguard innovation require reverse engineering services for integrated circuits. Those making product development/application decisions want to understand semiconductors applications within growing sectors like automotive, clean technology and medical devices.
In the battle to protect market share and key technologies, patents have long been a strategic asset. More recently, patents have also become an important source of revenues for semiconductor companies and a key metric for corporate valuation. Consequently, companies are seeking to maximize technology licensing revenues, accelerate licensing campaigns, and minimize retaliation risks.
Technical Intelligence and IP Services
UBM TechInsights provides IP/technology lifecycle solutions including technical intelligence to help semiconductor companies understand their competitors, as well as IP services for market defence and generating licensing revenues.
Technical Intelligence
- Competitive Intelligence: mapping of key technical innovations, manufacturers, devices and standards. Our reports cover who has the best technology, who owns what intellectual property, and what is the cost to manufacture.
- Design Analysis: evaluation of device circuitry and functionality. Circuit extraction, feature analysis, waveform analysis and device comparisons help jumpstart your learning curve, accelerate time to market and reduce revision costs.
- Process Analysis: analysis of device structure, fabrication processes, package design, and transistor characteristics help determine competitive device cost, quality, and performance.
- Cost Analysis: determination of chip complexity and IC cost of interest to OEMs sourcing components, fabless companies making design decisions and manufacturers trying to understand price points.
IP Services
- IP Landscape Service: identifying relevant papers, patents, and applications to map the technology space, identify gaps in a company's patent portfolio and highlight unclaimed "territories" in emerging markets or technologies.
- Patent Brokerage: helping patent holders mine their portfolios. We provide technical due diligence packages including file wrapper investigations and probability assessments of related art, and assist buyers with a routine searches
- IP Portfolio Management: ensuring focus on your most valuable patents. PatentVista Enterprise supports portfolio decisions, patent assertion and defence activities through collaborative workflow, ranking methodologies and knowledge re-use for companies with large portfolios.
- Licensing and Litigation Support: portfolio management and patent evaluation, licensing target assessment, infringement analysis, licensing and litigation support.
Unmatched Capabilities
UBM TechInsights has unique capabilities in technical evaluation for patents and licensing, technical investigation of circuit design and processes for competitive intelligence as well as strategic sourcing and procurement of hard to obtain parts. We are world leaders in circuit analysis and extraction for all types of microelectronic devices including digital/logic, DRAM, SRAM, non-volatile memory, analog/mixed signal circuitry, sensors/MEMS, displays, and discretes. Process analysis works back from the device to describe processes and tooling used in manufacturing.
Our deep understanding of semiconductor technology is backed by an unparalleled investment in knowledge generation, proprietary tools for analysis and IP workflow software applications, to stay current with advancing semiconductor technology. We continue to build new capabilities in systems and software analysis and have compiled an unmatched data archive that includes a prior art library with references back to the mid-1970s
Gaining Competitive Advantage
UBM TechInsights has helped companies in the networking, wireless, consumer electronics, automotive, and military sectors as well as major semiconductor companies like Intel and Texas Instruments to gain competitive advantage through in-depth technical and patent analyses. Our services, ranging from custom projects for technical intelligence and IP purposes to open market engineering reports, are valued by engineers and intellectual property professionals. Contact UBM TechInsights today for details on how we can support your technical and IP initiatives.