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"Intellectual property" is the legally protectable and enforceable aspects of intellectual capital, and it includes trademarks, patents, copyrights, trade secrets, right of publicity, and contracts. Increasing, intellectual property assets are becoming more valuable than the traditional physical assets such as plant, property, equipment, and cash.

Patent Acquisitions – What’s Behind Them

Saturday, February 25, 2012 By Leave a Comment
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If recent news is any indicator, patents are extremely valuable assets! During 2011, Nortel Networks Corporation sold 6,000 patents for $4.5 billion to a technology consortium that included Apple, Microsoft and RIM. Shortly thereafter, Google bought, in one of the largest patent deals in history, more than 24,000 patents and patent applications from Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion. Since 2011, IBM has sold more than 2,000 patents to Google for an undisclosed price. And now, Kodak, under the mandate of its Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing, is trying to sell 1,100 of its patents for $3 billion.

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Monetizing IP During Financial Crisis (PDF)

Thursday, October 27, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Monetizing IP During Financial Crisis: Recent developments in the world of debt finance, the economy and the resultant recession of 2008 are all challenging companies financially. However, these developments highlight new ways for companies with actual or potential intellectual property to generate income, and in some cases to recapitalize themselves.

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Does Google’s Purchase of Motorola Suggest It Is Changing Its Strategy?

Tuesday, September 13, 2011 By 2 Comments
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In a recent editorial in the Wall Street Journal one commentator on the world of business puzzled that Google would so violate the patent rights of their competitors with their Android mobile operating system. He mused incredulously, that Google seems to assume that their competitors in the smartphone market don’t have a right to exclude them from using their intellectual property.

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Patenting Food Products and Manufacturing Processes

Tuesday, September 13, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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Many manufacturing companies overlook the opportunity to patent aspects of their products or specialized manufacturing processes. This is especially true in the natural products industries, where unusual ingredients are often mixed together and specialized production processes are increasingly required to make food products and dietary supplement products that are acceptable to consumers. In most natural product categories, it takes substantial innovation for manufacturers to be able to produce successful functional and natural food or supplement products.

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The Truth About Licensing (PDF)

Saturday, September 10, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Not every company is in a position to practice classical carrot and stick style licensing. But that does not mean that licensing is not an option for every business, regardless of the intangible assets they own.

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Surviving Financial Crisis with Structural Capital (PDF)

Friday, September 9, 2011 By Leave a Comment

With an intellectual-asset audit, companies can often find Rembrandts in the attic. Ideas, patents, trademarks and/or infringements are often discovered that may help capitalize the enterprise that holds them.

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Enhancing Profitability with Intellectual Property (PDF)

Saturday, August 27, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Even companies with small IP portfolios can leverage their holdings into the free cash flow of licensing income by parsing their IP holdings.

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Patents Can Protect Formulations and Processes (PDF)

Wednesday, August 24, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Many manufacturers overlook the opportunity to patent aspects of their food products or specialised manufacturing processes. This is especially true in the natural products industries, where unusual ingredients are often mixed together and specialised production processes are increasingly required to make successful products. In most natural product categories, it takes substantial innovation for manufacturers to be able to produce successful functional and natural food products.

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The Possibilities for Patenting Supplement Formulations (PDF)

Tuesday, July 19, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Intellectual property, and in particular a patent, is critical to protecting product formulations. Patents are the ‘holy grail’ of such formulations, and if a company owns a strong patent it has a limited monopoly in the marketplace that allows it to prevent competitors from copying or otherwise trading on its recipe or formulation for the term of that patent.

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Intellectual Capital and Intellectual Property

Friday, July 1, 2011 By Leave a Comment

How does traditional “Intellectual Property” fit into the modern discussion surrounding the value and practicality of “Intangible Assets,” “Knowledge Assets,” or what has come to be known as “Intellectual Capital?”

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