What Kinds of Patents AST is Seeking

AST is interested in high-technology patents of the very highest quality. We are very selective, and purchase only 1 to 2% of what is offered to us by brokers and other sellers (about 400 patents have been purchased by AST to date from more than 40,000 patents reviewed). Major technology areas include: Information Technology, Software, Semiconductors, Internet Technologies, Consumer Electronics, Communications (both wired and wireless), Cable TV/Entertainment and Information Based Medical Devices. Please submit your patent here.

Since technology categories are not static, and are based on an ever-expanding set of our dynamic member companies which are continually evolving, our objective is to encourage every high-tech patent seller, or anyone approached to sell their high-tech patent, to bring it to our attention. While we are discriminating, our member companies – with more than $700 billion of annual sales worldwide – are fully financially capable to compete in the market for patents of interest to one or more of these member companies.