We present CMS Umbra – our multi award winning, cutting-edge, AI-driven IP commercialisation tool. CMS Umbra is a first-to-market AI solution designed to help IP-rich clients – or businesses who invest in such companies – to commercialise and maximise the value of patent portfolios. CMS Umbra’s rapid search facility identifies infringements by scanning the entire written internet, as well as providing validity and freedom-to-operate assessments.
Patents derive almost their entire value from licensing and enforcement, either by securing exclusivity or by generating royalties. When managed effectively, patents can and should be a significant profit driver for a business. However, since most patents are simply left dormant, the value of many IP portfolios is not being realised. CMS is on a mission to bring patent portfolios out of the shadows.
The tool has recently won both the coveted "Most Innovative Use of Technology" award at The Lawyer Awards 2024, and the "FT Innovative Lawyers Award 2024" for productising legal services.
CMS Umbra addresses a challenge faced by many IP-rich businesses: how to swiftly and cost-effectively monetise IP rather than letting it remain dormant – turning patents into a value-driver and not a mere cost.
How CMS Umbra helps our clients
CMS Umbra’s rapid search facility identifies third-party infringers of your patents by scanning the entire written internet, providing opportunities to:
- Secure market exclusivity.
- Seek infringement damages.
- Generate licensing revenue.
The instant search functionality removes the need for what would otherwise be hundreds of hours of manual labour in scouring for potential infringements. This opens up the door to monetising otherwise dormant patents, or patents coming to the end of their life.
Our tool rapidly assesses the validity of patents, ranking them from AAA to D-rated. This enables your business to:
- Identify the strongest and weakest patents in a portfolio – thereby selecting some for licensing, enforcement, acquisition or divestment.
- Accurately value its entire portfolio.
- Obtain valuable merits insights to support and defend patent litigation.
Examples include:
- Rapid AI driven “Freedom To Operate (FTO)” scan – facilitating patent landscaping and clearance advice.
- Corporate due diligence and IP audits – providing insights, particularly around patent validity and technology exclusivity for much more accurate valuation.
As businesses count the significant cost of registering a patent and maintaining it, is it possible to efficiently and actively monetise a patent portfolio to generate revenue? YES!
CMS Umbra
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Data-driven monetisation
CMS Umbra will show you how your patent portfolio can be most effectively monetised, based on AI-generated reporting and data-driven analysis. Together, we will explore three routes to monetisation - licensing, litigation, and letting a patent lapse to reduce costs to the business.
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