Today, Ocean Tomo has released the 2015 update to the Annual Study of Intangible Asset Market Value. As reported by Geoff Colvin of Fortune Magazine, the data reflected in the chart below reveals that intangible asset value of the S&P 500 grew to an average of 84% by January 1st, 2015, an increase of four […]
Veris from Ocean Tomo Managing Director, Jonathan Couchman, published in the American Bar Association Website
Ghostwriting Expert Report a Remarkable Breach of Ethics and Protocol A recent opinion from the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan on a motion to preclude expert testimony underscored the importance of maintaining an expert’s objectivity. In Numatics Inc. v. Balluff Inc. and Barnum Company (13-11049), the court excluded the testimony of an expert […]
Ocean Tomo 300® Patent Index Enters Ninth Year of Publication
Today the Ocean Tomo 300® Patent Index (OTPAT), the only index based on the value of corporate intellectual property, was reconstituted. The Index is a diversified listing of the 300 companies that own the most valuable patent portfolios relative to the book value of the company. The Index provides a meaningful benchmark for the performance […]
Ocean Tomo to Re-enter Live Intellectual Property (IP) Auction Market
At the Licensing Executives Society (LES) Annual Meeting this morning in San Francisco, Ocean Tomo CEO Jim Malackowski and Ocean Tomo Managing Director James Trueman announced Ocean Tomo’s next generation intellectual property auction platform. Ocean Tomo created the live multi-lot IP auction marketplace in 2006, exiting the auction business in 2009, and has now returned […]
Ocean Tomo 3D Printing Patent Study
Yesterday Ocean Tomo CEO James E. Malackowski participated on a panel at the 3D Printing Politics conference in Washington, DC. An event where Peter Harter, a lobbyist with deep experience in intellectual property spanning Netscape, EMusic and Intellectual Ventures, assembled a remarkable group of senior business and government thought leaders in the 3D printing industry […]
Study of Illinois Patent Quality for Crain’s Chicago Business Eureka Index and Further Insight
The 2014 Eureka Index, exclusively published in the March 30th-April 5th issue of Crain’s Chicago Business and driven by Ocean Tomo data, was published. The Eureka index, which recognizes patent quality among Illinois companies and institutions with three of more issued patents in 2013, was performed using the Ocean Tomo Ratings™ system. The system gives […]
Patent Damages Today – But What About Tomorrow
Shirley Webster, Managing Director in the Expert Testimony Practice of Ocean Tomo, who oversees our Houston office, had the pleasure of speaking at the University of Texas’ 9th Annual Patent Law Institute last week. The two-day event, held at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, focused on the latest developments in patent law. Shirley was […]
Cleveland’s Patent Power Index
Prepared exclusively for Crain’s Cleveland Business by Ocean Tomo, the Patent Power Index recognizes those companies in Norheast Ohio that are transforming the state’s innovation landscape. The full article and featured companies is available in the article “Stronger Ideas Start Here,” by Chuck Soder. The index, which ranks the top 30 companies in the Cleveland-Akron-Canton […]