By Bruce Berman A wider range of intelligent businesses are achieving higher returns on patents by extracting direct profits or providing defensive leverage. The Patent Monetization Landscape below is a graphic illustration of these businesses developed by Brody Berman Associates in conjunction with the IP Investment Group at Coller Captial, a London-based private equity firm and one the of the leading independent patent holders. Patent Monetization Landscape […]
Understanding the IP Wars
July 24, 2012 by Leave a Comment
By Erin-Michael Gill Today, technology companies like Facebook, Google and Twitter are getting a scary wake-up call on the importance of IP issues. My personal wake-up call happened in November 2008. The financial crisis was exploding, the hot start-up computer company I worked for, OQO, was in the process of shutting down, and my 19-month-old […]
Eight Species of Patent Strategy – Part 1 the framework
July 23, 2012 by Leave a Comment
By Bill Meade Introduction: When invited to give a talk for an American Corporate Council Association (which changed its name to the Association of Corporate Council) in 2004 I was asked to speak on “patent strategy.” When I complained “That is a pretty big topic, can you narrow it down a little for me?” the […]
What exactly is IP Strategy anyway?
July 21, 2012 by 1 Comment
By Duncan Bucknell My working definition of ‘IP Strategy’ is ‘using intellectual property to inform and leverage business strategy’. I think it covers the full range of activity that is IP Strategy – what do you think? Here are some definitions previously suggested by others. Do you have any others we should add? What are […]
The Increasing Value of Knowledge Currency
July 20, 2012 by Leave a Comment
By General Patent Corporation In just the last few years, patents have gone from sleepy assets that many businesses did not even record on their balance sheets, to hot properties. Patents have truly become the “knowledge currency” of the Information Age. And the market – as it always does – has made things right by […]
Facebook’s Patent Acquisitions? They’re More About Google Than Yahoo
July 19, 2012 by Leave a Comment
By Leonid Kravets Facebook’s patent portfolio has grown exponentially as a result of acquisitions of patent portfolios from IBM and Microsoft. After acquiring 650 AOL patents and patent applications from Microsoft, the company now has approximately 1,400 patent assets. Amazingly, only 46 of these assets (24 issued patents and22 published applications) were originally filed by Facebook. In recent years, Facebook […]
The invisible hand of the intellectual market
July 18, 2012 by 8 Comments
By Ana Popescu While recently reading a post at the excellent IAM blog about the acquisition of Core Wireless Licensing (a Luxemburg based company established by Nokia and holding 400 patents families related to wireless technology) by MOSAID (a Canadian NPE) I came across this sentence: “Critics of NPEs… have always based their condemnation on […]
PCT growth in Thailand
July 17, 2012 by Leave a Comment
By Nick Redfearn Thailand’s accession to the PCT is providing the promised ease and savings for patent applicants. Data from the Thai IPD shows a good take up from major users like US, China, Japan and Korea. PCT National Application (Inbound) – started from 1 July 2010 Year Numbers 2010 28 2011 2,149 2012 (until 24 […]
Circular Logic in Patent Analysis
July 16, 2012 by 8 Comments
By Robert Cantrell If you encountered an alien from another world and wanted him to understand the concept of what a word is, chances are you would put words (and their object or idea representation) into context with the letters from which we write them and the sentences and paragraphs for which they are a […]
Trolls Are Capitalists Too
July 15, 2012 by Leave a Comment
By Mary Adams My work with Intangible Capital intersects with the field and practice of intellectual property (IP). In conversations about IP, especially in my monthly programs at the Intangible Asset Finance Society, trolls are a frequent topic of discussion. In fact, some colleagues from IAFS and I ran a workshop about modeling IP-intensive businesses […]
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