I just finished three days attending the LES Asia Pacific Regional Conference chaired by Audrey Yap, President of LES Singapore. Attendance was strong and, although largely from the region, there was notable participation from Europe and the Americas. The theme of the conference was “Emerging IP Deals and Opportunities in Asia” and it did not […]
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Molly Keelan reports on the Western M&A Forum
Nestled in the heart of Silicon Valley’s Technology Hub, Ocean Tomo’s Roy D’Souza, Elvir Causevic and Molly Keelan participated in Wednesday’s Western M&A Forum in Santa Clara, CA. A rare gathering of M&A, corporate, private equity and financial experts assembled to opine on the current and future state of M&A. Roy D’Souza, Managing Director IP […]
Molly Keelan Reports on the Patent Disputes 2011 Event: Patent Reform & New Models for a New Market
This week I’m reporting onTuesday’s Conference in Santa Clara CA: Patent Disputes 2011: Patent Reform and New Models for a New Market. The audience, consisting of over 100 in-house counsel, outside counsel and company executives, proved to be a very rich landscape of thought leaders who are now playing in unfamiliar surroundings. Initial discussions surrounded […]
Strategy of Being Lucky vs. Strategy is Everything
This week I had a unique front-to-end business experience within a span of 24 hours. Tuesday evening I attended the Founders Showcase event in San Francisco, which highlighted the most exciting startups in the earliest stages of starting up, together with several hundred Silicon Valley and Bay Area entrepreneurs, VCs, lawyers, etc. On Wednesday I […]
Innovating…Chicago Innovation Awards Style
Between the Second City actors taking innovation to its most raw form – improvisation, Beau Wrigley’s call to adopt innovation beyond business into other aspects of one’s life, and Dan Miller and Tom Kuczmarski’s Blue’s Brothers-themed introduction, the 10th annual Chicago Innovation Awards was a marked success. This event gave awards to ten of the […]
Ocean Tomo 300® Patent Index – 61 Constituent Companies Included Across All 6 Years
Entering its sixth year of publishing the Ocean Tomo 300® Patent Index in 2011, Ocean Tomo acknowledges those companies who have contributed to the performance of the index in all six years including: Company Ticker Advanced Micro Devices Inc. AMD Alcoa Inc. AA Allergan Inc. AGN Altera Corp. ALTR Amkor Technology Inc. AMKR Analog Devices […]
Ocean Tomo 300® Patent Index (OTPAT) Announces New Constituent Companies in Sixth Year of Trading
In today’s blog post, which coincides with the announcement of the 2011 Ocean Tomo 300® Patent Index (OT300) constituents, I would like to make special mention of three companies. Each reports earnings today and to us, more importantly, has been a member of the OT300 for each of the six years that the index has […]
Molly Keelan Reports on the 2011 AIPLA Annual Meeting
Thank you to all who stopped by the Ocean Tomo booth at the annual AIPLA conference last week. Michael Milani, Managing Director of Expert Testimony, and I enjoyed meeting new contacts and catching up with our clients. Interestingly enough, this year, Ocean Tomo decided to raffle off an iPad 2 and used a different method […]