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Spending Spree In Place Post RPX IPO?
More news about the RPX IPO, as bidder identities continue to leak from the Nortel patent auction process. (Previous coverage of RPX IPO). RPX may be poised for a spending spree, as the Wall Street...
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When Is A Billion Dollar Patent Not Worth A Billion Dollars?
After several months, still no deal reached in the Nortel patent auction, which reported a flurry of activity back in September of last year. This comes despite the fact that the portfolio was...
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The Nonobviousness Doctrine As An Innovation Tax
As the great patent reform debate rages, all participants basically agree that the patent office moves too slowly, is underfunded, and reform is needed. That’s pretty much where the agreement ends....
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Nortel Auction Update — Microsoft Says, ‘Hey Google! How Do You Like These...
First of all, don’t weep for the Google-lemming as it plunges into the Nortel patent canyon … the $25 M break-up fee should cushion its fall. By now you may have heard that mystery bidder Rockstar...
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Another Interesting Use Of The IP Auction Marketplace
ICAP announced an offer a Covenant Not to Sue (CNS) from MOSAID Technologies during a sealed-bid auction on September 27, 2011. The CNS covers U.S. patents 5,650,770, 6,198,390, 6,518,889 and...
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Digitude Patent Monetization Effort Bombs – RPX Picks Up The Carcass
RPX announced “its largest syndicated transaction to date with the participation of more than 10 RPX clients.” According to the release, “RPX will invest approximately $46 million of its own capital...
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(Patent) Party Like A Rockstar
Operating under the name Rockstar Bidco, a consortium of tech companies including significant financing from Microsoft, Apple and Research In Motion, outbid then patent-deficient Google for the...
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Do NPE’s “Cost” Us $29 B? Intellectual Ventures Co-Founder Peter Detkin Sets...
The BBC ran another article in a tired meme about evil patent owners supposedly “costing” billions per year. Of course, the article doesn’t specify who supposedly bore this $29 B “cost” or how it was...
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