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2014 was an unforgiving year for many PIPCO investors

Issue 70 of IAM will shortly be available to view online for subscribers, with hard copies hitting desks soon after. As this is our first edition for 2015, Data Centre takes a look back at the performance of publicly-traded IP company (PIPCO) stocks…

29 January 2015

Fortress-backed company expands patent offensive against Asian and US corporates

Andrea Electronics has filed a complaint at the US International Trade Commission (ITC), alleging that a slew of major companies have infringed five of its US patents relating to microphone noise cancellation technology. This is its latest push in a…

27 January 2015

IP-savvy activist shareholders + declining patent values + tightening patent eligibility = potential trouble for public companies

The PIPCO sector has attracted its share of - sometimes less than sophisticated - investor interest and there are a number of investors that are active around privately-held licensing-based businesses. There are also various kinds of financial model…

26 January 2015

Patent law changes in US mean there are potentially billions of dollars of write-downs on public company balance sheets, says Spangenberg

Erich Spangenberg, the CEO of nXn Partners and founder and former CEO of IP Navigation Group (IPNav), is not a man to mince his words; and in an exclusive article for the IAM blog he is certainly not doing that. Instead, he has put together a piece…

15 January 2015

An IPR warning shot for pharma that could resonate far and wide

Earlier this week US hedge fund investor Kyle Bass got the wires buzzing when he reportedly outlined his plans to wage an inter partes review (IPR) war on big pharma at the USPTO’s Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB). According to Bass,…

09 January 2015

The IAM IP personalities of 2014, part one

With the Christmas and New Year festivities now done and dusted, it’s time to crank up the juice and to get the IAM blog fully rocking and rolling once more. And what better way to do it than by revealing our IP personalities of 2014?As always,…

05 January 2015

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