Patent Kinetics, LLC, evaluates US patent portfolios for sale, licensing or possible assertion against those who might be practicing these inventions without an appropriate license. We help owners of high quality portfolios evaluate strategies for obtaining a return on their significant investments of time and money in their patent portfolios. Patent Kinetics typically works on a contingency fee basis. See our What We Do and Business Model pages for additional information.
For 20+ years, Robert P. Weber, the Managing Director of Patent Kinetics, LLC, has been been focused on intellectual property, first in the copyright industries as an author, blogger, and management consultant, and then providing leadership in portfolio development, licensing, and enforcement.
In his role as Vice President, Corporate Development and Licensing, Open Security Solutions, LLC, Weber was instrumental in licensing an patent portfolio concerning information security and anti-piracy techniques to a well-known patent licensing and assertion company. A suit alleging patent infringement was filed in the Eastern District of Texas naming a dozen well-known companies as defendants. This litigation was resolved favorably to OSS and its licensing partner in 2009.
From 1996 to 1999 Weber was SVP, Business and Technology Strategy at InterTrust Technologies. Weber is a named inventor on 22 issued US patents and several foreign counterparts, most relating to information security and Digital Rights Management (DRM). His 21 DRM-related US patents address, generally speaking, DRM techniques and business models, rights-enabled email, DRM-related backend clearinghouse functions, the use of watermarking to carry DRM control information, and data structures for DRM. He was a major contributor to the Intertrust portfolio that was eventually licensed to Microsoft for nearly a half billion dollars.
From 1989 to 1995 he was a Principal Consultant at Northeast Consulting Resources (prior to its acquisition by NerveWire). His consulting practice focused mainly on helping the copyright industries, especially publishing and information access and distribution companies, respond to the then emerging Internet and related copyright issues. His clients included Lexis-Nexis, IBM, and the Association of American Publishers.
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