Maximize the Value of Your Intellectual Property

For 35+ years, TAEUS has combined deep forensic engineering with legal strategy to help global companies protect, manage, and monetize their patent portfolios. We deliver the technical data you need to win.

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Assert & Litigate

Prove infringement definitively. We build rock-solid, litigation-ready Evidence of Use (EoU) charts that are more robust than standard lightweight EoU charts and provide technical expert witness testimony to back up your claims in court.

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Defend Your Tech

Neutralize meritless lawsuits. Use our advanced reverse engineering and comprehensive prior art searches to tear down aggressive assertions and safeguard your assets.

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Monetize Portfolios

Turn dormant intellectual property into active revenue streams. From high-level patent valuations to customized licensing campaigns, we help you unlock hidden capital.

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Manage & Optimize

Stop paying maintenance fees on patents that don't generate revenue. We analyze your entire patent landscape from a technical and economic perspective with TAEUSworks™, streamlining your portfolio for maximum performance with the help of PatentBooks™.

Who is TAEUS?

TAEUS has thirty-five+ years of experience helping companies defend, assert, manage, and monetize intellectual property. We are an innovative team of IP professionals who use our unique technical expertise to help companies maintain successful IP strategies, and use our vision of an efficient licensing world to craft new solutions.

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The Gold Standard in Patent Evaluation

You cannot accurately value a patent using software algorithms alone. True assessment requires human intelligence.

TAEUS is the creator of TAEUSworks™—the industry-recognized, transparent methodology used to evaluate patent quality and licensability. Repeatedly validated by major corporations, legal teams, and patent auctions, our human-intelligence-driven evaluations give you the objective data needed to make high-stakes business decisions with absolute confidence.

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Radical Efficiency with PatentBooks™

Patent licensing shouldn't require endless lawsuits or messy, one-off negotiations. With PatentBooks, we offer a market-driven solution that organizes patents by product category to benefit both sides of the market.

For patent owners, publishing your assets into a PatentBook is completely free, giving you a frictionless path to a steady, quality-based royalty stream. For subscribers, one simple license grants immediate access to all patents within a PatentBook. You get what you need to innovate without the constant worry of litigation

  • TAEUS Times

    By Art Nutter | August 25, 2025

    Hello from beautiful Colorado Springs, Colorado! As we near the end of summer, we hope you are enjoying fond memories of relaxing vacations and time spent outdoors with your loved ones. TAEUS has had a busy several months. We’ve compiled a selection of our recent and ongoing projects into this new edition of the TAEUS…

  • Where We’ve Been and Where We’re Going

    By Solange Richter | July 19, 2022

    TAEUS Corporation is the world’s first engineering company dedicated to patent licensing, formed originally in July 1992. TAEUS grew organically, helping AT&T identify the best patents obtained in its 1992 NCR purchase. TAEUS served not only AT&T, but all its daughter companies, including Lucent, Avaya, and LSI, for the next two decades. In 1994, TAEUS…

  • Global Footprint

    By Solange Richter | July 19, 2022

    TAEUS opened TAEUS Europe, Ltd., its first international subsidiary, in 1996 in London, investigating Microsoft for antitrust on behalf of the European Commission, illustrating how the instructions Microsoft provided to users did not reflect how the Windows® operating system and Internet Explorer® actually worked. The European Commission’s €9M contract with TAEUS Europe, Ltd. yielded a…

  • COVID-19 Effects on TAEUS

    By Solange Richter | July 19, 2022

    The entire world, including TAEUS, was affected by the onset of COVID-19 in various ways that differ from one company to another. Many companies had to adapt to working remotely. TAEUS has been working remotely as a specialized team since its founding in 1992! This advantage allowed TAEUS to continue working while other companies had…

  • Market Changes

    By Solange Richter | July 19, 2022

    Many patent owners resort to patent brokerage services because they either don’t utilize their patents, or they lack the financial resources to litigate. TAEUS Corporation has helped patent owners monetize their patents since 1992. The patent sale market has gone dry recently. In 2020, the actual patent sales by market year of sale dropped to…

  • TAEUS War Stories: EC vs. Microsoft

    By Art Nutter | January 15, 2019

    Some years ago, TAEUS Europe Ltd. won a €9 million European Commission (EC) competitive tender for assistance with their antitrust investigation of Microsoft. The EC was responding to complaints from Microsoft competitors that believed that Microsoft was blocking them from making products compatible with its Internet Explorer™ internet browser and Microsoft Windows™ operating system.  …

  • Revolutionizing Patent Licensing

    By Art Nutter | July 31, 2018

    Since the very first patent was issued in the 14th century, intellectual property and intellectual property protection practices are still very relevant in today’s world, despite significant changes. New inventions and innovations are critical to societal progress, for without them, society would become stagnant and forward progression would cease. TAEUS is committed to adapting to…

  • PatentBooks, Inc. Roundtable Press Release

    By Art Nutter | June 6, 2018

    For Immediate Release June 4, 2018 Colorado Springs, Colorado   PatentBooks Inc. (patentbooksinc.com) is pleased to announce an invitation-only Early Adopter Roundtable for the Geolocation & Autonomy PatentBook occurring on-line June 14, 2018 @ 0800 Mountain Daylight Time (MDT=GMT-7), 10 AM EDT.   The Early Adopter Roundtable invitation is extended to the world’s top companies that own US patents and/or…

  • TAEUS War Stories: The “Art” of Searching for Prior Art

    By Art Nutter | January 30, 2018

    Prior art searching is often times a dull, uninteresting affair that is done on a computer searching electronic records.  Electronic database searching has its place but it often times does not yield the information needed to invalidate a patent.  Here is a true story about a prior art search TAEUS did to invalidate a Japanese…

  • Time To Get Your Patents Into PatentBooks

    By Art Nutter | November 17, 2017

    It’s high time we fixed patent licensing in the United States of America, setting the example for the rest of the world. Patent rights are the most fundamental property rights in society. One must be able to own and profit from one’s own ideas. Obtaining a patent is both challenging and expensive. When one finally…