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Global Unicorn Population Exceeds 1,000; U.S. Share of Private Billion Dollar Companies Slips

March 8, 2022 Bruce Berman

Private businesses with a $1billion valuation used to be a rarity – “unicorns” in the world of corporate finance. But an explosion of global capital

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Financial services IP is focus of July conference in NYC; IPCU readers receive a $200 discount

May 14, 2019 Bruce Berman

FinTech, blockchain, cybercrime – intellectual property for the financial services industry today requires a balance of emerging technologies and rights, including patents and trade secrets. 

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Can blockchain be a game-changer for millions of IP transactions?

July 24, 2018 Bruce Berman

The abundant promise of blockchain has yet to be realized. To many in IP, finance and tech, it is just beginning to come into sight.

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Automakers and tech giants are locked in a strange patent race

October 10, 2017 Bruce Berman

At time when patent certainty and value are under attack, global automobile manufacturers are competing with major technology companies for IP rights to the future,

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Michelle Lee to keynote “Patents for Financial Services Summit,” 7/19

May 22, 2017 Bruce Berman

The 14th Annual Patents for Financial Services Summit being held July 19-20 at the Sheraton Times Square Hotel will examine recent developments affecting banks and

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Accenture upsets blockchain believers with patent filing

September 23, 2016 Bruce Berman

Consulting giant Accenture has rattled the cage of the fintech community by filing a patent for an “editable” blockchain that would allow a central administrator

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Financial patent summit to focus on IP and cybersecurity, July 20-21

May 23, 2016 Bruce Berman

Fintech, or financial technology, is a rapidly growing industry with more than $15 billion of venture capital invested to date and even more on the

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Fintech patent competition: fierce, diverse, growing

February 1, 2016 Bruce Berman

Among the most watched areas for new patent value is financial technology, covering inventions in areas like authentication, mobile payments and wealth management. Fintech is

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Since founding Brody Berman Associates in 1988 Bruce has been working with IP holders, executives and investors, as well as more than 80 law firms and their clients. In 2016 he founded the Center for IP Understanding, an independent non-profit, www.understandingip.org. He has been on an IAM 300 Leading IP Strategist every year since 2011 and is a member of its Hall of Fame Academy.

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