Organisation: Burford Capital

As the economy closes companies, here’s a patent monetisation primer

A nuts-and-bolts guide for a chief IP officer whose company faces trouble and whose CEO asks “What can we do with the patent portfolio?"

24 April 2024

Blood oxygen, sweat and tears: the Apple Watch saga

Financially, is it worth fixing the existing generation watch or should the tech behemoth wait to make changes on the next generation watch?

29 March 2024

Judgment preservation insurance in patent appeals: Is a bubble brewing?

Saturday Opinion: These policies now back headline-grabbing nuclear patent verdicts but we fear insurers don’t understand the risk and this bubble could pop. Disclosure rules could help

06 January 2024

Patent seller defeats claims by York Eggleston IV's Slingshot over failed Orange portfolio purchase

The dispute between failed purchaser Slingshot Technologies, new buyer Acacia Research Group, and patent seller Transpacific IP Group involves allegations of trade secret misappropriation

09 August 2023

IAM’s top takeaways from IPBC Global 2023

Litigation funding, looking beyond patents and driving business in new markets – our editorial team reflects on the key messages from the world’s leading IP conference

27 July 2023

Small innovator's litigation funding enabled $106.5 million verdict against Medtronic

Colibri Heart Valve had no financial alternative to pay for the protracted legal battle and plans to invest the proceeds to further its development pathway into the US marketplace

12 July 2023

Former USPTO Director Andrei Iancu calls for robust IP regime to keep pace with China

America risks losing ground in the next tech revolution he warns in an interview with Burford Capital Managing Director Katharine Wolanyk

17 January 2023

Engaging with CFOs is a challenge but by working together patent and trademark professionals can do it

Optimising relationships with company finance functions was a key talking point at this year’s IPBC Global. Success can be found if different parts of the IP ecosystem tear down their silos and collaborate

25 June 2022

The future of FRAND, 6G, IP finance and patent dealmaking take centre stage in Chicago

Day Two of IPBC Global 2022 provided a succession of important contributions from some of the market’s most prominent thought-leaders

14 June 2022

New customer on the secondary patent market: litigation finance companies

Patent brokers and litigation financiers say that over the past year there is a growing trend of lawsuit funders exploring the idea of acquiring their own patent portfolios for monetisation through licensing or litigation

20 April 2022