By Ian A. Maxwell This article is written in the context of the Australian environment but many of the conclusions are quite general. Background Over the last 20 years much more money has gone into global venture capital sectors than has come out. This unprofitable imbalance seems improbable and only exists because of the long […]
One-Blue Patent Pool Reveals Five Key Steps to Effective Patent Licensing
January 24, 2013 by Leave a Comment
By One-Blue LLC Patent pooling is an effective and proven tool for helping companies manage their product and technology licensing programs. For licensees, pools of patents from multiple licensors generally carry lower royalty fees than the total for licenses secured from the licensors individually. Patent pooling also saves valuable time that licensees would otherwise spend […]
Elevate Investor Confidence: Align IP and Intangible Asset Competitive Strategies
January 7, 2013 by Leave a Comment
By Michael D. Moberly There’s little question that intellectual property (IP) and intangible assets are now key, foundational tenents for successful business management, primarily because both IP and intangible assets can, if stewarded and overseen effectively, become potential sources of substantial/domiant (company) value, revenue, sustainability, profit, growth, and competitive advantage. To be sure, management teams, […]
University-generated information: Is it more public or private?
December 7, 2012 by Leave a Comment
By Neil Wilkof The involvement of universities in commercial activities is a complex issue. Roughly speaking, these endeavours can be divided into two categories. First there is the commercialization of publicly-funded university research and the concomitant rise of technology university transfer offers. Secondly, especially in the U.S., universities have sought to earn licence fees through […]
Kodak, Patents and the Deal That You Can’t Refuse?
December 3, 2012 by Leave a Comment
By Neil Wilkof Let’s start from the end: No, I am not going to let this subject disappear quietly. Several months ago I wrote about “Patent Valuation, T.S. Eliot and the Theatre of the Absurd” here, where I commented on the steadily decreasing valuation of the Kodak patent portfolio. The saga continues. Last week it […]
The Use of IP Valuation in IP Transactions: A Global Survey of IP Brokers
November 30, 2012 by 1 Comment
By Efrat Kasznik and Luca Escoffier The valuation of Intellectual Property (IP) such as patents, or of non-patented technologies, is still considered by many to be more of an art than a science. While IP valuation might appear to be a routine task for a technology/patent broker, in fact most of the time it can […]
Intellectual Property and the Business Model
November 28, 2012 by Leave a Comment
By Fred Logue Intellectual Property can be used in three ways in a business. Each of the dimensions gives the business leader more degrees of freedom when constructing his or her strategy when compared to the case where there is little valuable intellectual property. The degrees of freedom are well illustrated in the diagram below […]
Patent Valuation, T.S. Eliot and the Theatre of the Absurd
November 26, 2012 by Leave a Comment
By Neil Wilkof It is one of the most famous stanzas of modern English language poetry. Thus T.S. Eliot concluded his poem– “The Hollow Men”: This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper. And so […]
Adaptability
November 23, 2012 by Leave a Comment
By Robert Cantrell One of the hallmarks of longevity for enterprises is adaptability. Every enterprise is undergoing a race, whether its leadership understands that or not. That race involves changing to meet changing conditions. If an enterprise cannot or will not adapt fast enough to changing conditions, it will eventually fail. For example, the success […]
Of medieval marauders, tulips and the sale of patent portfolios
November 16, 2012 by Leave a Comment
By Neil Wilkof This Kat has been away from the blogosphere for ten days or so, having been privileged to participate in IP Week held in Singapore, here, under the primary auspices of the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore (IPOS), here. The vigor and commitment to strengthening IP and making Singapore an IP hub is […]
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