ICAP Patent Analytics & Advisory formerly Oink IP
Patent strength & assertion intelligence

Will your portfolio stand up to challenge — and stand out in the market?

We pressure-test your claims the way an IPR or opposition will, gauge your assertion potential and the damages a successful campaign could recover, and align it to real demand across operating companies, consortia, and NPEs — then engineer continuation claims for the white-space that matters.

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Proprietary in-house LLMs + workflows · 25 years in patent sales, licensing & research · U.S.-based, ITAR-aware

For venture debt partners

Intelligence for Venture Debt Lenders

Your borrowers own patents. We tell you how strong they are, who wants them, and whether anyone’s using them — then, where there’s a market, turn them into cash that sits right at the top of your waterfall.

$68.8BRecord U.S. venture debt in 2025
~1,000Deals a year — each an IP-owning company
37%Of 2025 exit value was debt-backed

When you lend

Patents can strengthen your collateral position and, if monetized, put non-dilutive cash into a borrower — improving liquidity and your coverage. When a borrower is distressed, a saleable portfolio is recoverable value you may not know you can reach.

When you pass

A company you decline still owns its IP. Introduce them to us and a patent sale or license can hand the founders non-dilutive capital — turning a “no” into goodwill, at no cost and no effort to you.

Because your claim is senior, every dollar a borrower raises by monetizing patents flows first toward covering your loan. Helping borrowers turn IP into cash isn’t a favor — it protects your position.

Two ways to partner

Referral partnership NO COST

Introduce us to portfolio companies — or applicants you’ve turned down — whose patents may be monetizable. We evaluate the estate and, where there’s a market, run a sale or licensing process through ICAP Patent Brokerage. You make a warm introduction; we take it from there.

$0 to youContingent referral fee paid from our earned fee
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Landscape & collateral reports DILIGENCE

Commission a structured read of a target’s patent estate at approval, during monitoring, or at workout — the same rigor you’d apply to any other collateral, applied to the asset class you currently can’t see. Optional portfolio monitoring re-scores your book for IP risk and monetization triggers.

Fixed feeTiered by scope
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Report tiers

Screening read AT APPROVAL

Fast, low-cost first look: portfolio inventory, term and lien check, and a monetization flag.

Collateral diligence UNDERWRITING

The full read: claim analysis and validity against prior art, competitor and infringement (evidence-of-use) review, title and encumbrance verification, and a comparable-value framework.

Monetization mandate BROKERAGE

When there’s a market, we run the deal — brokerage engagement, buyer and licensee outreach, success-fee based.

The waterfall works in your favor

Idle asset

The borrower’s patents sit unused on the balance sheet.

Sale or license

ICAP takes the portfolio to buyers and licensees.

Non-dilutive cash

Proceeds reach the borrower and liquidity improves.

Your position

As senior claim holder, you sit at the top of the waterfall.

Let’s evaluate one portfolio together

Send us a single borrower or passed-over applicant and we’ll return a screening read at no cost — the fastest way to see what this partnership is worth to your fund. A sample due-diligence report is available on request.

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We assess portfolio strength, market demand, and evidence of use — we do not issue dollar valuations or certified appraisals. Fee structures are set per engagement, and referral arrangements are structured to fit your firm’s compliance and disclosure requirements; where a referral fee can’t be accepted, the reporting service stands on its own. Market figures are drawn from third-party sources (Runway Growth Capital / PitchBook 2025–2026 Venture Debt Review). This overview is not legal advice or a legal opinion.

Evidence-of-Use (EoU) Charting · Pre-brokerage

Infringement Discovery and Product to Claim Mapping

We've developed a sophisticated, deterministic AI-based workflow for infringement discovery and product-to-claim-element mapping that prevents hallucinations. It uses multiple LLMs and captures over 25 years of patent analysis, monetization, and brokerage knowledge — from a market-demand perspective — to rapidly and accurately map product specifications to claim elements, with a full chain of evidence and direct links to that evidence. It surfaces only what the market will care about. We offer it as a pre-brokerage service for clients who are actively monetizing their patent portfolios, because evidence of use is a key driver of monetization.

Claim elements mapped to product specification and linked evidence Each claim element is mapped to matching product-specification text and cited to a linked source in an evidence-of-use chart. CLAIM ELEMENTS PRODUCT SPECIFICATION EoU CLAIM CHART 1a a sensor array todetect motion 1b a controller coupledto the array 1c logic to transmit analert signal “16-cell sensor grid” “on-board MCU” “push alert to app” ELEMENTLINKED EVIDENCE 1a datasheet p.4↗ 1b UI spec §3.2↗ 1c API docs↗ MAPS TO CITED TO
Illustrative — each claim element is mapped to matching product-specification text and cited to a linked source in the EoU chart.
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25yrsPatent sales & licensing
LLM+Proprietary in-house models
100% USAnalysts, U.S. citizens
ICAP P.B.Brokerage partnership
01 · The flagship service

Portfolio Strength, Assertion & Market-Fit Analysis

We're not a valuation shop putting a dollar figure on your patents. We determine whether your portfolio can actually perform: whether its claims survive challenge, how hard it can assert, and whether it lines up with what the market is acquiring and licensing right now.

Our analysis pressure-tests claim validity against the prior art the way a PTAB IPR or an EPO opposition would, then gauges assertion potential — the strength of an infringement read and the damages a successful campaign could realistically recover. We weigh all of it against live demand in the acquisition and licensing market across operating companies, defensive consortia, and non-practicing entities, so you know not just how strong the assets are, but who actually wants them.

For open portfolios with applications still pending, we run deep white-space analysis: we identify continuation claims that can be filed with low prior-art resistance, and we go further — drafting recommended claim language engineered to track the greatest industry demand in your technology domain, so new filings land exactly where the market is moving.

It all runs on proprietary in-house LLMs and workflows encoding 25 years of patent sales, licensing, and advanced search — directed by experienced analysts at every step. When the analysis says it's time to transact, ICAP Patent Brokerage takes the assets to market.

What you receive

  • Validity strength assessment — how your key claims hold up to IPR and opposition over the prior art
  • Assertion analysis — infringement-read strength and the potential damages award a campaign could recover
  • Market-demand alignment — fit with operating companies, consortia, and NPEs actively acquiring or licensing
  • White-space map — continuation opportunities with low prior-art resistance, ranked
  • Recommended claim language — drafted to track the highest industry demand in your domain
  • Action plan and a path to transaction via ICAP brokerage
02 · The decision model

We file only where every signal converges

A continuation isn't worth filing just because the white-space is open. We recommend a filing only when that open space lines up with a true industry need — a domain where competitors will want to compete or practice — so every recommendation points at near-term monetization, not paper coverage. The path below is what's left after all of those signals agree.

Portfolio development path — confluence of signals
Validity strength survives IPR / opposition Assertion potential infringement read + damages Market demand OpCos · consortia · NPEs Open white-space low prior-art resistance Demand-aligned claims drafted to industry need CONVERGENCE all signals must align OUTCOME Optimal portfolio development path Continuations filed only when aligned to near-term monetization.
03 · How it works

From portfolio to an evidence-backed strategy

A defined sequence — human expertise directing the models at every step, never the other way around.

Ingest & normalize

We load your patents, applications, and priority data, then map claims and families for analysis.

Pressure-test validity

We challenge your key claims against the prior art the way a PTAB IPR or an EPO opposition would, exposing strengths and weak points.

Gauge assertion & market fit

We model infringement-read strength and the potential damages award, then weigh demand across operating companies, consortia, and NPEs.

Map white-space & advise

We surface low-resistance continuation opportunities, draft demand-aligned claim language, and route to ICAP brokerage to transact.

04 · Search services

The full Oink IP search practice, continued

Comprehensive manual prior-art search, amplified by AI and performed entirely in the United States by analysts who practiced as engineers before becoming patent searchers.

Patentability Search PROSECUTION

Worldwide patent literature and English-language technical publications searched for novelty and non-obviousness. Winnowed to the most relevant references with pinpoint citations and PDF copies — built to support prosecution at the pre-filing stage.

From $700Delivery ≤ 5 business days
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Invalidity Search LITIGATION

Prior art predating the subject patent's priority date, mapped at the claim-limitation level — the evidentiary backbone of an IPR, opposition, or invalidity defense. We seek a single knock-out reference first, then strong combinations, delivered as a detailed claim chart with references.

Avg $1,800*Delivery 5–7 business days
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Freedom to Operate CLEARANCE

From your product disclosure, we search third-party in-force patents in the jurisdictions where the product will be marketed, winnowing to the claims most relevant to your features. References provided.

$1,400Delivery 5 business days
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Landscape STRATEGY

All active patents, pending applications, and relevant technical publications in your subject area, organized by category based on your intended informational use — with competitive intelligence, claims analysis, opportunity-space (white-space) analysis, FTO Risk Assessment, and Prior Art Risk Assessment.

$1,200–$5,000*Delivery 1–2 weeks · by scope
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Infringement Search ASSERTION

Identification of products and parties reading on your claims, supported by detailed claim charts that map accused features to claim limitations — for assertion and licensing programs.

From $3,000*Delivery 5–10 business days
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Buy or Sell Patents BROKERAGE

Through our partnership with ICAP Patent Brokerage — a global leader in patent monetization — we help clients acquire strategic portfolios and bring assets to market for sale and licensing.

Engagement-basedVia ICAP Patent Brokerage
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* Pricing varies with scope. All searching is conducted within the United States by analysts with U.S. citizenship — suited to organizations subject to export-control restrictions.

05 · Why this firm

Engineers and brokers, with the models to scale them

Analysts who were engineers

Our searchers practiced as electrical, optical, software, mechanical, and chemical engineers before becoming patent analysts — fluent in the technology, the terminology, and where the killer art hides.

Proprietary LLMs, human-directed

In-house models and workflows accelerate the work and widen the net, but every conclusion is owned by an experienced analyst. AI for reach; judgment for the call.

U.S.-only, export-aware

No work is offshored. All searching is performed in the United States by analysts with full U.S. citizenship — built for universities with federal funding and clients in controlled technologies.

Twenty-five years of transactions

Our experience in patent sales and licensing is baked into the analysis — so recommendations reflect what buyers and licensees actually pay for, not theory.

A direct path to market

When the analysis says it's time to transact, ICAP Patent Brokerage takes the assets to a global network of buyers and licensees — strategy and execution under one roof.

White-space you can act on

We don't just analyze a portfolio — we surface the open, demand-driven lanes where continuations can be filed with low prior-art resistance, and draft claim language built to track where the market is moving.

06 · About

A new name for a practice you already know

ICAP Patent Analytics & Advisory is the evolution of Oink IP — the same U.S.-based search team and standards, now focused on the questions owners care about most: can these patents survive challenge, how hard can they assert, and does the market actually want them?

We sit alongside ICAP Patent Brokerage, the global leader in patent monetization, so analysis and advisory connect directly to a market where assets are sold and licensed. The result is a single practice that can tell you what to do and then help you do it.

Now
ICAP Patent Analytics & Advisory
Strength, assertion, and market-fit analysis, white-space & claim drafting, and the full search practice.
Formerly
Oink IP / Oink Analytics, LLC
Prior-art search experts — continued without interruption.
Alongside
ICAP Patent Brokerage
Global leader in patent sales, licensing, and monetization.
07 · Management

Leadership

Mark O'Donnell

Mark O’Donnell

CEO, ICAP Patent Analytics & Advisory

Mark O’Donnell is CEO of ICAP Patent Analytics & Advisory — a recognized authority in intellectual-property analytics, patent research, and AI/LLM-driven patent analysis. He built the proprietary LLM workflows that support every stage of patent-portfolio transactions, and he advises clients across a wide range of technology sectors on patent engineering, analytics, and monetization strategy.

He founded the practice — now operating as ICAP Patent Analytics & Advisory (formerly Oink IP) — in partnership and cooperation with ICAP Patent Brokerage, where he currently serves as Chief Operating Officer. The practice focuses on advanced IP analytics and innovation intelligence. Over a 20-plus-year career spanning IP research, patent analytics, engineering, and enterprise architecture, he has held senior roles including Head of Transaction Analytics at IPwe, Vice President of Search & Analytics at MaxVal Group, and Vice President and Founder of Patent Research Services at IP.com, where he led IP research and analytics for corporations and law firms worldwide.

Earlier in his career he served as a Risk Analysis Enterprise Solutions Architect supporting U.S. Customs and Border Protection modernization initiatives, Senior Imaging Scientist at Xerox, and Optical Engineer at Eastman Kodak. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Imaging Science and a Master’s degree in Optical Engineering.

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Find out how strong your portfolio really is — and how far it can go.

Send us your portfolio or technology area and we'll scope a strength-and-strategy assessment — or a search — for you.

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