SEP Essentiality Analysis

We bring the fairness back into FRAND.

Built for implementers who can't cross-license. We challenge what licensors claim is essential — fast, at fixed cost, and unmatched quality.

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Per Patent Triage
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3GPP
Deep Standards Expertise
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The Problem

The information asymmetry in SEP licensing

Licensors have teams, data, and decades of experience. You have a demand letter and a deadline. The cost of independent analysis shouldn't exceed the cost of compliance.

Essentiality is accepted on faith

Up to 80% of patents are not essential. Most implementers lack the resources to verify independently — so they sign. Information asymmetry is the defining problem in SEP licensing.

Traditional advisory takes months

Full essentiality analysis requires mapping patent claims to 3GPP specifications line by line. Law firms charge €10K per patent and deliver in weeks. Only well-resourced companies can afford to push back.

Standards data is practically inaccessible

3GPP specs span thousands of documents across releases, RFCs, and contribution records. The data is buried — a maze without the right tools.

Market Reality

The biggest challenges in SEP determination — solved.

A 2022 practitioner survey identified the top barriers to SEP claim charting. We built against every single one.

✓ 48h triage
44%
Time needed for claim charting
✓ fixed pricing
33%
Cost of claim charting
✓ UPC litigators + AI
30%
Finding subject- matter experts
✓ Expert Sessions
17%
Understanding claim chart results
Source: IPlytics, 2022 practitioner survey on SEP determination challenges
Solution

Built for implementers facing SEP demands

AI grounded in high-quality standard databases, verified by accredited UPC litigators. Reports you can act on.

1

Demand Audit

We assess the FRAND licensing demands.

2

Essentiality Analysis

We verify essentiality of asserted patents against a comprehensive database of 3GPP specifications.

3

Claim Charts

For patents that survive triage, we generate detailed claim charts.

4

Defense Strategy

Actionable recommendations: which patents to challenge, which to concede, and how to approach negotiations from a position of knowledge.

See It Work

Claim-to-specification mapping

Essentiality analysis, FRAND negotiations and claim charting grounded in proprietary high quality 3GPP data.

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Patent Claim 1 — Limitation 1a
“a method for transmitting a transport block comprising: encoding the transport block using a low-density parity-check code; and mapping the encoded transport block to resource elements of a physical channel”
Patent family
EP3 456 789 · WO2018/123456
Priority: 2017-03-14 · 5G NR uplink
3GPP Specification Evidence
EssentialTS 38.212 §5.4.2.1 — LDPC base graph selection and encoding procedure for UL-SCH transport blocks directly maps to claimed encoding step
PartialTS 38.211 §6.3.1.4 — Resource element mapping covers PUSCH but does not specify transport block granularity as claimed. Gap identified.
Triage verdictChallengeable — recommend full chart
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