Patent Perishables
The effects on a company's patent portfolio when it goes bust
Intellectual Property Expert Group
Intellectual Property Expert Group
Category Finance
Innovation needed, Must Banks Be Forced to Finance?
In today’s Netherlands financial daily, Het Financieele Dagblad, the headline is that banks avoid financing of eco (energy saving) projects. Investments planned for offshore wind energy production and construction of a biofuels plant have been stalled due to banks refusing…
Closed Auctions and the Risks of Willful Infringement
Auctions to sell assets have been known for long. Goethe proposed the publisher Vieweg in 1797 to sell his manuscript of his poem Hermann and Dorothea via an auction (later to become known as “a second-price auction”). In IP no…
Change in Fair Value Accounting rules and IP
Would a change in accounting rules, as they are now being discussed, have an impact on the role IP can play as a collateral for (new) debts? The current financial crisis has brought about a call for easing the accounting…
Is the financial crisis taking its toll on IP monetization?
How likely is it that the current financial crisis will also have a negative impact on IP monetization? One would think that it will. After all, acquiring patents can be a rather costly affair. Dire finance conditions and limited or…
Patent Acquisition and Venture Capital
Last week the Wall Street Journal revealed that a group of tech companies got together to incorporate a new group, called Allied Security Trust. The way it is being described, see the WSJ Law Blog, is that the companies, among…