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Read everything about IP finance and insurance in IAM’s latest Special Report

IAM’s Special Report 2024 Q2 "Money, money, money” reports deeply on the growing breadth of IP financial products spreading across the globe

A primer for IP-backed finance for growing companies

IP valuation and finance in Asia: where are we at?

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Trade secrets – to license or not to license?

Pure trade secret licensing is not a common choice when commercialising IP but industry insiders predict that change is coming

21 May 2024

China’s IP finance market appears to be booming

Despite a wider economic downturn, China is now home to an IP finance market worth over $67 billion

17 May 2024

Economic uncertainty pushing auto companies to fine-tune IP strategies

Experts at IAM Live: Auto IP USA discussed cost-cutting measures like legal-spend reductions, portfolio pruning, and selective patent filing

08 May 2024

Pinpointing trade secrets ‘surprisingly rare’ in licence agreements

Clifford Chance’s London-based partner Don McCombie on implementing formal policies, rising awareness and US v UK litigation

07 May 2024

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

IP as real estate – and the true nature, direction and speed of IP disclosures

Saturday Opinion: Joshua Walker, CEO of System.Legal Corp turns a critical eye on the status quo and calls for a common language of disclosure

06 April 2024

Aon IP Solutions is breaking up

CEO Lewis Lee will depart to launch an independent IP valuations start-up, while teams doing IP insurance broking and M&A IP assessments remain at Aon

27 March 2024

IPwe’s bankruptcy takes a turn for the worse

Employees were furloughed and IPwe’s assets will be liquidated in a Chapter 7 bankruptcy after Granicus IP – led by Erich Spangenberg – allegedly backed out of a $500,000 financing deal

26 March 2024

Landmark Chinese trade secrets damages ruling carries important messages for rights holders

The Supreme People’s Court’s backing of a record payout to Sennics underscores an important shift away from the historic reluctance for large awards

13 March 2024

Volatile capital markets, M&A slump hitting patent valuation practices

Patent valuation software-as-a-service firm IPwe Inc has filed for bankruptcy while IP executives at Aon Intellectual Property Solutions have lost jobs

30 January 2024

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