The number of patent sales in the 4Q 2016 remained about the same, but the median asking price of sellers of U.S. patents was higher
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Pre-IPO Snap, with $25B valuation, paid $9M for 245 IBM patents
A soft market for patent licensing has not stopped the right patent portfolio from commanding a respectable price from the right buyer – at the
Panasonic, NEC & Sony are battling with IBM for patent sales leadership
Despite dramatically lower patent valuations, some big companies, including under-performing foreign holders, have taken the number of U.S. sales to new highs. While IBM still
Google’s patent buying program, an apparent success, is thinly reported
Better than one-in-four of the patents offered to Google for purchase as a result of its Patent Purchase Promotion in May were acquired by the
Patent values are hit by uncertainty; operating co buying overtakes NPE
Three things are needed to succeed today in patent licensing: more capital, more patience and more good patents, which are in increasingly short supply. Uncertainty
Article Traces Rise of a Phone Patent over 11 Years and 4 Owners
From Mitsubishi to Apple, to an NPE and finally RPX, one IP asset, several objectives. It’s a hard-knock life for some patents, so says an
Patent Valuations: Why do they Differ from Selling Price?
Owners and buyers are frequently out of sync w/ investors Valuations that are either too high or low underscore the need to provide more bracketed
Valuations Soar on Smartphone Patents and Stocks
Speculation is Boosting Some Companies for Now; The Shortsighted are Paying a Premium to Compete – What hath the Nortel auction wrought? Never before has
Patent Portfolio Sale
Nortel Wireless Sale: Unprecedented Interesting story today in TelecomTV by Peggy Albright about bankrupt Nortel’s disposition of IP assets. “Even the process Nortel is going through
Caught and Released
MOSAID Buys AST Patents MOSAID a well-know Canadian NPE that owns approximately 2,000 semiconductor, communications and related patents disclosed on March 3 in a regulatory
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