AI-enabled, expert-driven patent intelligence

We find patents worth acting on.

At Techson, we use our Agentic AI platform LIMESTONE to turn patent portfolios, target companies, and products into ranked, evidence-backed monetization opportunities for counsel, investors, and patent owners.

Portfolio-in

rank patents by signal

Target-in

find adverse patents

Evidence-first

art, charts & economics

Portfolio Signal

Top Candidates

Quality Score: 9/10

Enforceability

High claim strength

Economics

High revenue-at-risk

Infringement Charts

Matched Companies & Products

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Claim 1

a modeling tools engine for modeling one or more network designs

Element B

Clients and partners

The monetization gap

All patent decisions require a monetization lens.

Owners, buyers, sellers, counsel, and funders all need the same thing: a faster, more affordable way to diligence patents for critical business decisions.

Portfolio value is trapped in volume.

Thousands of assets, uneven quality, and unclear target reads make assertion, sales, licensing, and maintenance decisions almost impossible.

Case selection needs better pre-litigation signals.

Litigation counsel and funders need to know which patents deserve attorney time before investing heavily in manual review, claim charts, and damages analysis.

Maintenance decisions must be more informed.

Administrators are making millions of dollars in maintenance and annuities decisions in the dark.

The monetization lens

Three monetization signals inform all decisions.

Limestone produces, at scale, expert-directed synthetic monetization data. Techson deploys this data into agentically-informed, evidence-backed business decisions: assert, acquire, license, finance, sell, settle, maintain, or deprioritize.

Enforceability

Triage for legal strength, prior art, validity risk, claim quality, and other survivability indicators.

Infringement

Find and map claim elements to companies, products, industry sectors, with citations, to be refined into litigation-quality charts.

Economics

Connect technical reads to revenue-at-risk, damages, royalty-rates, and monetization materiality.

Two ways in

Start with patents. Or start with targets.

Process the patents you already own, represent, finance, or may acquire.

Limestone groups technology, scores enforceability, surfaces target products, and prioritizes the assets most likely to matter.

Use a company, product, category, or even an existing case to uncover patents to process.

Limestone uses a customer objective to finds patents that are worth acquiring.

techson beyond software

Patent expertise scaled by AI.

Limestone accelerates diligence; Techson helps clients turn outputs into business decisions and results.

Transaction Services

Buyside & sellside brokerage, campaign strategy, and capital sourcing.

Strategic Consulting & Research

Portfolio-wide strategy, maintenance decisioning, and prior art, FTO, and landscape research.

Limestone Data

RaaS - buy Limestone data independent of a services engagement, including Limestone evidence-backed agentic reports.

Testimonials

field tested

Clients have spoken

“We’ve demo’d lots of different AI tools trying to make a splash in the market and have found Techson’s Limestone reports to provide very useful, actionable feedback on both validity and infringement.”

— Partner/IP Litigator, Midsize Law Firm

transactions

“So practical and easy to use. I have never seen a tool so relevant and valuable for transactions.”

— Former SVP, Acquisitions / Patent Investor

analysis

“Limestone is clearly a cut above. It mirrors and expands on our internal analysis.”

— Licensing Director / Patent Monetization Firm

platform

“Tom … this is outstanding!! Thank you for the report. The more I see on the platform the more I am truly impressed.”

— VP Licensing, Patent Investor; former IBM, Stanley/Black & Decker

features

“Your system, Limestone, is terrific. We really appreciate the new and evolving features.”

— Founding Partner/IP Litigator, Boutique Law Firm

caseflow

“After looking at this report, I am starting to be very interested in bulk pricing. In an ideal world, we would run this report every time a new patent case issues.”

— Partner in IP, AM LAW 125

reaction

“Holy Sh%t!!! Dude – your system is super cool man. Can’t wait to compare the outputs to what we think may infringe.”

— Founding Partner/IP Litigator, Boutique Law Firm

field tested

Clients have spoken

— Partner/IP Litigator, Midsize Law Firm

transactions

“So practical and easy to use. I have never seen a tool so relevant and valuable for transactions.”

— Former SVP, Acquisitions / Patent Investor

analysis

“Limestone is clearly a cut above. It mirrors and expands on our internal analysis.”

— Licensing Director / Patent Monetization Firm

platform

“Tom … this is outstanding!! Thank you for the report. The more I see on the platform the more I am truly impressed.”

— VP Licensing, Patent Investor; former IBM, Stanley/Black & Decker

features

“Your system, Limestone, is terrific. We really appreciate the new and evolving features.”

— Founding Partner/IP Litigator, Boutique Law Firm

caseflow

“After looking at this report, I am starting to be very interested in bulk pricing. In an ideal world, we would run this report every time a new patent case issues.”

— Partner in IP, AM LAW 125

reaction

“Holy Sh%t!!! Dude – your system is super cool man. Can’t wait to compare the outputs to what we think may infringe.”

— Founding Partner/IP Litigator, Boutique Law Firm

ABOUT TECHSON

Small team. Big vision. Real experience.

Full story

120,000+

Patents analyzed

250,000+

Claim charts delivered

F500 + AmLaw 200

Clients served across thousands of engagements

Techson leadership

Luke Barbin

Co-Founder, CEO

Tom Hochstatter

Co-Founder, President

Chris Mulkey

Co-Founder, COO

Dan Cabaniss

CTO / Chief Architect

David Nickelson

VP of Research

Strategic advisors:

Brian Niznik

· Strategic Advisor

Tracey Thomas

· Strategic Advisor