Case Study: McCoy Global reduces early-stage legal costs and accelerates time-to-market with PatSnap

McCoy Global - Customer Case Study

McCoy Global, a leading provider of critical data acquisition and wellbore integrity solutions for the energy industry, needed to reduce early‑stage legal costs, speed time‑to‑market, and uncover white‑space innovation and opportunities to commercialize older unused IP. To address these challenges they deployed PatSnap’s platform—in particular PatSnap’s semantic search and workspace features—to give engineers a way to perform initial patent landscape exploration without immediately engaging counsel.

Using PatSnap, McCoy Global shifted initial freedom‑to‑operate and prior‑art searches in‑house, allowing engineers to do hours of work that previously took days and to hand legal counsel a prepared, focused dossier. PatSnap has been used across roughly 15 projects and, according to McCoy, has saved about $5,000–$10,000 per pursuit in attorney fees while accelerating decision timelines; it also opens the door to analytics-led options for monetizing stale IP.

McCoy Global

Dusty Sonnier

Director – Engineering & Technology