Sector: Banking & Financial Services

Mark Argento is a founding partner of boutique investment bank Lake Street Capital Markets and one of the leading analysts of public IP companies (PIPCOs). The businesses he covers include Acacia Research, TiVo, Unwired Planet and Vringo. He…

31 March 2015

Lex Machina’s second annual review of the patent litigation landscape in the US is out today and the IAM blog has had an exclusive preview of what is a very comprehensive piece of work.The main headline figure for last year – that the number of…

26 March 2015

Next week the USPTO will hold its first summit on patent quality. Having both appointed its first deputy commissioner on the issue and announced its enhanced patent quality initiative earlier this year, it’s easy to see what the agency currently…

20 March 2015

An IPR has been filed against an Allergan patent by an investment firm in a move that will heighten fears in the life sciences industries about the potential damage the PTAB process could do to their IP rights. The latest move comes after two…

17 March 2015

As IAM has extensively covered in recent months, the US Supreme Court’s June 2014 decision in Alice Corp v CLS Bank could prove to have far-reaching consequences for a wide range of businesses that hold patents on business methods and software. With…

17 March 2015

Yesterday, IAM hosted the NPE 2015 conference at the Convene Center in New York’s Financial District. Close to 200 delegates attended the event, including ,many senior leaders at public and private NPEs, inventors, investors, DC lobbyists, analysts…

13 March 2015

IAM can reveal that Alcatel-Lucent has implemented a round of lay-offs inside its IP department. Among those departing are Craig Thompson, senior vice president of IP, and Ozer Teitelbaum, the company’s director of IP strategy. We understand that…

24 February 2015

Those of us who read the predictions for 2015 that Erich Spangenberg made on the IPNav blog on the final day of last year were probably not too surprised to find out yesterday that he has teamed up with activist shareholder and hedge fund owner Kyle…

11 February 2015

There’s little doubt that the award for breakout PIPCO of the year 2014, at least in terms of share performance, went to Marathon Patent Group. The company’s stock price rocketed as it put in place a hugely significant deal with IPNav, began to…

10 February 2015

Shares in Spherix jumped today after it announced that it had been the subject of a bid from fellow public IP company (PIPCO) Marathon Patent Group. News of that offer coincided with confirmation that RPX had picked up a chunk of Spherix stock at…

03 February 2015