Due Diligence
Strategic Insight for Investments, Transactions, and Innovation
In today’s deal-making environment, intellectual property is often a company’s most valuable asset — and its greatest source of risk. Banner Witcoff’s IP Due Diligence practice helps investors, acquirers, and technology-driven companies evaluate IP portfolios, assess exposure, and make informed decisions with clarity and confidence.
Our Approach
Portfolio Review & Asset Evaluation
We assess patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets, and related agreements for strength, validity, geographic coverage, and strategic alignment.
Legal Risk & Exposure Analysis
Our team reviews pending litigation, USPTO proceedings, competitor IP, and potential infringement risks for key technologies and markets.
Ownership, Licensing & Encumbrance Review
We verify the chain of title, licensing restrictions, security interests, joint development agreements, and other obligations that impact IP control and exposure.
Technical & Market Landscape Assessment
We analyze the competitive environment, relevant patents, industry trends, trade secret and data protection, and technology positioning to gauge long-term value.
Clear, Actionable Findings
Our due diligence reports are tailored to each client to provide risk summaries, valuation insights, red flags, potential solutions to identified problems, and recommended next steps for informed deal-making, aligned with a client’s risk appetite and expectations.
Why Banner Witcoff
Our attorneys and patent agents have experience working at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, as well as having advanced engineering, scientific, and industry backgrounds — ideal for assessing complex technology from AI and medical devices to electronics, materials, chemicals, and mechanical systems.
With strong experience in both patent prosecution and litigation, we evaluate portfolios through the lens of real-world enforceability, not just paper strength.
We support startups, private equity firms, venture funds, other corporate counsel, and global corporations in acquisitions, investments, licensing deals, and strategic partnerships.
Every due diligence review is aligned to the transaction size, timeline, deal structure, and business objectives.
Representative Industry Experience
- Artificial intelligence, software & machine learning
- Medical devices, diagnostics & life sciences
- Consumer electronics, semiconductors & IoT
- Automotive, aerospace, manufacturing & mechanical systems
- Chemicals, materials & industrial technologies
