Unlocking Strategic Value: Anaqua’s Integrated Approach to Patent Annuities and Trademark Renewals

Anaqua’s Differentiated Approach: Integration That Drives Impact

The seamless integration of portfolio access, analytics, and execution is what sets Anaqua apart. It eliminates silos, enables effective collaboration across the organization, reduces manual effort, and enables smarter, faster decisions. Here are some of the key features and benefits of Anaqua’s patent annuities and trademark renewals services:

• Portfolio Access: View your entire IP portfolio in one centralized location. With direct access to your portfolio, your organization can mitigate risks, simplify decision making, streamline your payment process, and manage your IP portfolio.
• Integrated Analytics: Gain actionable insights at the decision point. The Annuities Decision Report (ADR), included in our annuity services, consolidates all publicly available data to help you evaluate key metrics for each patent. This empowers clients to make informed decisions regarding annuities, licensing, and overall business impact.

The report includes comprehensive data and visualizations that rate and rank your patents covering metrics such as patent score, family citations, rejection history, claims analyzer insights, and landscape views. When managing patent annuities, the key challenge is determining which patents are worth maintaining and which may no longer justify the cost. The AI Patent Summaries in the ADR help address this by providing fast, in-depth analysis of each patent’s claims from multiple strategic angles:

• Exemplary Use Cases: These illustrate how a patent might be applied in real-world scenarios, helping you assess its commercial relevance and potential for licensing or enforcement.
• Claim Element Breakdowns: By deconstructing each claim into its core components, you gain a clearer understanding of the patent’s technical scope and how it aligns with your current or future product roadmap.
• Assessments of Claim Breadth and Quality: These evaluations help you gauge how defensible and valuable a patent is. Broader, higher-quality claims often indicate stronger protection and greater strategic importance, making them more likely to justify continued annuity payments.

Together, these AI-driven insights enable more confident, data-backed decisions about which patents to maintain, monetize, or let lapse, while optimizing your IP portfolio for both cost efficiency and strategic value.

• In-Platform Execution: Anaqua’s AQX IP Management platform offers our clients an Annuities Decision Workspace, enabling users to initiate renewals directly within the software with a single click. This allows clients to streamline the entire decision-making process.

All critical information such as internal data points, visibility to license agreements, active conflicts, and external analytics like the ADR report are surfaced on one screen, eliminating the need to toggle between systems. This unified view empowers users to assess the full 20-year lifecycle cost of a patent family, analyze claim quality and breadth, and understand commercial relevance through AI-generated summaries and more.

By consolidating data, insights, and execution into a single interface, users can make faster, more informed annuity decisions with greater confidence and efficiency.

And once a decision is made, the action (whether it’s renewing, letting lapse, or transferring) is initiated directly within Anaqua’s IPMS platform. No exporting, and no third-party tools needed. Just one intelligent, integrated workflow.

Anaqua client Michael Leathes, Head of IP, said, “Anaqua enabled us to push our lapse rate way over 60% and cut costs over 40% in four years. And, most critical of all, really be in full command of our intellectual asset base.”