The IP Awareness Summit 2017 was the first IP event to focus on perception and awareness of intellectual rights and their impact. Videos of panel
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RPX buyout rumors set share price at a 27% premium, or $800M
Shares of RPX (RPXC) opened today at $13.88, up 2.81%, after rising 5.6% last Wednesday on rumors from two sources that the defensive patent aggregator
Copyright company filing is a “mini” IPO aimed at monetizing future music royalties
A business designed to acquire and monetize royalty streams “of the world’s biggest artists,” Royalty Flow, went public last week with a “mini” IPO, or
Short-term thinking about intellectual capital weakens the U.S.’ ability to compete
A well-known economist and entrepreneur, whose work has been cited more than 120,000 times as tracked by Google Scholar, says that businesses and managers who
Antitrust Attorney General suing AT&T supports patent monetization
Yesterday, United States Assistant Attorney General for Antitrust Division, Makan Delrahim, filed suit to stop the $85 billion AT&T-Time Warner merger, which previously had been progressing
Patents’ early role in creating leading tech businesses eyed
Some information technology companies dubious about strong patents that can be used to restrict their activities or force them to pay licensing fees, appear to
Financial Times article slams US patent syst for business model bias
An article that appeared last week in the Financial Times calling into question the effectiveness of a U.S. patent system dangerously weakened by bad legislation
Experts at IPAS 2017 will explore growing disregard for IP rights
At a time when the value of IP rights under attack by businesses, individuals and the courts, the first IP Awareness Summit will examine the
Perception of patents & other IP rights is being taken more seriously
Do IP users – both businesses and individuals – view rights like patents and copyrights as potential assets that benefit commerce and society? Or, do
Bitcoin prices dive: 58 bitcoin facts that will amuse and enlighten
It has been a decade since the appearance of bitcoin, the alternative or cryptocurrency based on a blockchain, a “decentralized” network or shared ledger that
London IP Summit will feature transaction leaders; Washington patent policy event, a US Senator
Two timely IP conferences, one in London focusing on patent deals, and the other in Washington, looking at patent policy issues, will take place in
Music royalties – a siren song for niche investors seeking higher yield
A small but growing number of investors are buying the rights to musician’s future earnings, hoping to beat the fixed income returns and other markets.
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