Most patent owners have no idea their patents have been cited by other organisations in their own patent applications. Such citations can be on a grand scale. These other organisations may be potential development collaborators, they might be interested in being acquired by your investee or acquiring them. They may even be using your investee technology without permission and in that circumstance your investee could benefit from multiple streams of licence income.

IP Harvest can identify which organisations have cited your investee's existing published patents and patent applications and can provide them with the key data to enable strategic decisions to be taken. For example, they can then decide whether, or not, to request royalty payments from potential patent infringers.