Take 5: On Patents will be a monthly report prepared by Ocean Tomo, driven by insight gathered from the Ocean Tomo Ratings™ System. The Ocean Tomo Ratings™ system is the most advanced web-based patent data, rating and analysis platform designed for objectively assessing patent quality, relevant patents and technologies, competition, and competitive trends. The market […]
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IP Investments & Markets 2013 Videos
Earlier this week, the Center for Applied Innovation (CAI) released the first in a series of videos from the Center for Applied Innovation Town Hall Meeting on IP Investments & Markets, Presented by Ocean Tomo. The 39 featured speakers, panelists and moderators generously gave their time to our event, contributing greatly to the success. Their […]
IP As Debt Collateral
In some instances, understanding the importance of the IP portfolio to the operations and assets of the company that owns the IP could be an important first step. For example, if a company owns IP assets that cover technologies that are key to the operations of the business, holding this IP as collateral could offer […]
Town Hall Meeting on IP Investments & Markets: Focus On Patent Transactions
In late June, I attended the first Town Hall Meeting on IP Investments and Markets, presented by Ocean Tomo and hosted by the Center for Applied Innovation. Held in Chicago, it brought together leaders from the IP industry with investors and investment managers to discuss the potential for the IP asset class to drive corporate […]
Valuable, but vulnerable
Once developed, a trade secret can continue to exist if its owner takes reasonable measures (or makes reasonable efforts) to maintain its secrecy. Reasonable measures are, of course, a legal requirement. Importantly, a trade secret still may be misappropriated even if it is the subject of reasonable measures. So, a prudent trade secret owner’s goal […]
Ocean Tomo Insights: Evolving IP Market Series, Chapter 10
The final chapter of the “Evolving IP Market” concludes our video series with a discussion of the recently established trading exchange for Intellectual Property (IP) rights. Created at the urging of the Governor of Illinois’ Head of Economic Development, the Intellectual Property Exchange International (IPXI) is the world’s first financial exchange that facilitates non-exclusive licensing […]
USPTO Announces 2013 Winners of its Inaugural Patents for Humanity Program
Innovation and invention are paramount to overcoming global challenges in health and quality of life. Last week marked an especially important milestone in the promotion of intellectual property (IP) for the betterment of mankind, as the United States Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) announced the 10 winners of its Patents for Humanity pilot program during […]
Ocean Tomo Insights: Evolving IP Market Series, Chapter 9
From increased public reporting requirements, to changing accounting methods for damages calculation, the intellectual property (IP) market seems to have reached a significant, albeit belated, tipping point in its development. This week’s segment of the “Evolving IP Market” highlights several of the most noteworthy breakthroughs experienced by the industry, focusing specifically on the “changing numbers” […]