Most companies and inventors spend time and money on R&D, legal, crafting, filing and other costs associated with building and safeguarding their technology. The patent-related costs are often in vain, as the technology ends up not being core to the business. Even when the technology is core, patents sit idle on a balance sheet. Worse yet, they rack up maintenance costs on an annual basis.
If you owned a hotel, would you let rooms sit vacant and unoccupied? Nope. Instead of dragging down balance sheet, it's time to turn your patents into cash-flowing assets. If competitors are infringing on your IP, they should be paying rent. The point of patenting technology is to ensure that anyone using your intellectual property is paying for the hard work and up-front costs you incurred when developing the technology.
Brazos Licensing and Development, headquartered in Waco, Texas, leverages it's proprietary technology and management experience to help inventors and patent owners maximize the full potential of their patents. Team member combined experience spans many decades in relevant fields.
At Brazos, we understand the needs of inventors because we are inventors. Brazos L&D Chairman, Craig Etchegoyen, is the named inventor on over a dozen Patents.
We are also patent owners. We have skin in the game. Brazos owns upwards of 10,000 patents, from all over the world. For context, our patent portfolio is larger than each Xerox, Johnson and Johnson, and Cisco portfolios– to name a few.
Sheyanna graduated from Nova Southeastern University with a Bachelor's of Science in Paralegal Studies and a minor in Business. She worked in the legal departments for the Seminole Tribe of Florida, Inc. and Seminole Gaming, as well as worked in a private law firm in Alabama. Sheyanna attended Baylor Law and graduated in 2019 with a distinction in Business Litigation.
Matt spent 7 years in traditional finance, working in fixed income sales and trading. Matt specialized in structured products, specifically mortgage-backed securities. After Wall Street, Matt was founding CEO of a company that pioneered consumer data control. Matt bridges his technology and finance backgrounds to help Brazos productize their data-driven offering with flexible structuring solutions.
