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Keith Richard’s Bio Details Lost Rights to Early Works
Stones’ Costly Music (Biz) Lesson- I just finished the Keith Richards’ bio, Life, and am wondering how my sailing buddy Paul, a road manager and
Defensive Patent Acquirer is Going Public
RPX Files S-1 with the SEC It’s amazing what you can learn, or infer, from a Securities and Exchange Commission S-1 registration statement, which RPX has
New Patent Litigation Survey Confirms NPE Growth
What’s Fueling Higher Awards? Damages awards for NPEs (non-practicing patent owning entities) are on average triple those of practicing entities, according to handy 2010 Patent
Sale of Telco Patents May Change Tech Power Balance
Bidding Frenzy Likely for Nortel Rights Reuters broke a story that bids for the remaining Nortel Networks patents worth up to $1 billion are due
Latest SF Tech Boomlet Fuels Jobs & More
Jobs, Jobs, Jobs — & IP Deals, Too! If a recent news article about the San Francisco economy is any indication, politicians may soon be
Part II of Patent Performance Discussion is Out
Better Measures The conclusion of my chat with Apple, IBM, Microsoft and H-P heads of IP business about how they measure success (the Intangible Investor
ROI for Intellectual Ventures Funds Scrutinized
U of TX Return on IV is Off 73% PE investor Chris Dixon unearthed some interesting news about returns on an investment in Intellectual Ventures funds held
USC/Shoah’s $7m Patent License
Greater Good IP Insider has been following the $7 million 11-patent license covering digital search algorithms discovered by the USC/Shoah Foundation. University of Southern California
Patent “Plot” Thickens
EDN Takes a Fresh Look at NPEs In the current Electronic Design, Strategy, News, contributing editor Tam Harbert cuts to the heart of the NPE matter with a timely
Demand Builds for Nortel Patents
Who Will Make Best Use of the IP? A lot of people are interested in what bankrupt Nortel will do with its valuable patent portfolio. In fact,
The Lure of Chapter 11
Creditors Should Covet IP, Not Costs In a wry and informative Sunday Business piece in The New York Times, “Who Knew Bankruptcy Paid So Well?,”
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