Intellectual Property Finance

Capital for patent, trademark, trade secret, and copyright claims.

IP litigation is expensive and long. Criterica Capital prepares requests for non-recourse funding for IP enforcement and defense, with dedicated outcome models trained on legal data, including patent cases from the Eastern District of Texas, the District of Delaware, and 12 federal circuits.

NPEs, operating companies, and inventors are reviewed on equal terms. Outcome determines the review, not company profile.

Case Types Financed
Patent Infringement
Utility and design patent enforcement in US district courts and PTAB IPR proceedings. NPEs and operating companies are reviewed equally on merit.
Trade Secret Misappropriation
DTSA and state law trade secret claims. Employee departure cases, vendor theft, and competitor misappropriation.
Trademark & Brand Enforcement
Federal Lanham Act trademark infringement, trade dress, and passing off claims. Domain disputes and counterfeiting actions.
Copyright Litigation
Copyright infringement in entertainment, software, publishing, and design industries. Statutory damages and disgorgement claims.
IP Portfolio Defense
IPR defense funding for operating companies facing PTAB challenges from NPEs or competitors. Validity defense capital.
Licensing Disputes
Breach of licensing agreement, underpayment of royalties, and scope-of-license disputes with measurable damages.
IP-Specific Underwriting

IP litigation has distinct outcome dynamics — jurisdiction selection, claim construction risk, PTAB invalidity exposure, and damages methodology are all material variables in predicting recovery. Our models are trained on legal data, including patent and IP cases, rather than generalized commercial litigation data.

Criterica Capital reviews PTAB proceedings, ITC section 337 matters, and standard district court litigation. Validity risk, including IPR estoppel, is modeled explicitly in patent case evaluation. Matters where PTAB exposure is material and unmodeled are not prepared.

What a Request Covers
Minimum claim value
Set by the capital provider
PTAB coverage
IPR, PGR, CBM proceedings
ITC section 337
Exclusion order proceedings can be reviewed
Portfolio financing
Patent portfolios of related matters
Stage preference
Pre-filing through verdict/settlement
How We Underwrite

Every financing request Criterica Capital prepares is evaluated against outcomes, not collateral. Our models are trained on real court records across US federal courts, state courts, and international jurisdictions.

We assess jurisdiction-level recovery rates, case-type outcome distributions, time-to-resolution curves, and attorney performance history before a request is prepared for independent capital providers.

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Outcome models
Predictive models for each case type and jurisdiction
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Court record depth
Verified decisions used in model training
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Jurisdiction calibration
Circuit, district, and state-level recovery benchmarks
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Recovery modeling
Expected value, settlement range, and duration estimates per case
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