Cascades Ventures - Providing inventors with resources to prosecute their patents.

Our mission is to provide inventors and patent owners with the resources they need to license and enforce their intellectual property to protect against infringement by companies that use the technology without paying for it. We help provide a level playing field for individuals or small or mid-size businesses that are faced with the prospect of enforcing patents against much larger companies with much greater resources. We provide financial assistance to help pay for legal expenses and costs, experts fees, travel expenses, court costs and the like. We provide expert advice and guidance on effective licensing and enforcement strategies and tactics, based on experience garnered over more than a decade of our being at the forefront of the business.

We also help inventors prosecute pending patent applications by advancing legal, filing and other patent prosecution expenses and providing expert advice to help ensure the issuance of patents with the greatest licensing and commercial potential. Once a patent issues, Cascades will then assist you in selling, licensing or otherwise realizing the full value of the patent. We only deal with pending patent applications. We do not work with inventors who are at the idea stage but have not filed an application.

Although Cascades is not a law firm and will not itself provide legal services, it will provide the funding to ensure that you are well represented by the most capable litigation and prosecution attorneys and that their fees and costs can be paid.

Cascades has extensive contacts in the patent licensing and enforcement business. These contacts include the most preeminent patent litigation firms and technical experts in the country. Cascades will guide you through the process of selecting the best plan of action for realizing the greatest value from your patents. Since Cascades will be compensated only to the extent that your patents are successfully exploited, it will have a shared economic interest with you in the successful outcome.

The founder and CEO of Cascades is a pioneer in the patent and licensing business. In 1998, he founded a company called TechSearch, LLC, which was one of the first companies to engage in the patent and licensing business on a major scale. In 2005, TechSearch and its affiliates were acquired by a public company and Cascades was formed as a successor to carry on the business. Cascades and its predecessor companies generated millions of dollars in patent licensing revenues from a myriad of different patent portfolios in different technological fields.