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IP spinout strategy soars (from Corporate Dealmaker)

At a time when deal volume for most transactions is anemic, spinouts of intellectual property from established corporations are soaring. So says Bart Schachter (pictured), whose firm Blueprint Ventures helps companies spin out unwanted or noncore IP. It's not the multibillion dollar, transformational deals we've seen from corporates such as Tyco International...

Posted on May 19, 2009 8:00 AM

Qualcomm and Broadcom put the knives away (from Corporate Dealmaker)

Qualcomm Inc. (NASDAQ:QCOM) and Broadcom Corp. (NASDAQ:BRCM) have ended their long-running patent duel with an agreement signed Sunday. Under terms of the agreement, Qualcomm will pay its rival $891 million over the next four years to settle all outstanding legal claims between the two. In addition, the companies signed new...

Posted on April 27, 2009 3:30 PM

Safeguarding IP in a JV (from Corporate Dealmaker)

Intellectual property issues often consume the most time during negotiations between potential joint venture partners. If they're not, there are plenty of attorneys out there who would tell you they probably should. One of them is Broox W. Peterson. We recently came across Peterson's article "Protecting your intellectual property from...

Posted on July 25, 2008 2:09 PM

When M&A and intellectual property collide (from Corporate Dealmaker)

Intellectual property protection may not be mentioned in your job description as a corporate dealmaker, but as Ethan Horwitz, a partner in the intellectual property practice of King & Spalding says, IP and dealmaking collide often, and you can save big headaches by considering the consequences of that smashup early...

Posted on April 4, 2008 12:49 PM

Untangling Motorola's parts (from Corporate Dealmaker)

Motorola Inc. chief executive Greg Brown's strategy to separate the company's handset and network equipment businesses into two distinct corporations may for a while at least appease shareholders -- like, say Carl Icahn -- who have been agitating for change. But breaking a company...

Posted on March 26, 2008 1:18 PM

Ocean Tomo and Blueprint rev up the spinout machine (from Corporate Dealmaker)

What do you get when you pair a self-styled merchant bank for intellectual property with a venture firm that specializes in corporate spinouts? A partnership like the one announced Tuesday by Ocean Tomo LLC and Blueprint...

Posted on February 8, 2008 4:17 PM

IP due diligence: Make it strategic (from Corporate Dealmaker)

Sure, the target has good patents. But does it have the right ones? Do they support its business model? And what kind of firepower do its competitors have?

Posted on December 15, 2007 3:15 PM

The Alcatel-Lucent portfolio (from Corporate Dealmaker)

Integrating the IP of the newly formed telecom giant is a big job with major implications - for both the company itself and its competitors.

Posted on June 15, 2007 3:42 PM

The power of patent mapping (from Corporate Dealmaker)

As the strategic and commercial importance of intellectual property increases, companies need to better understand both their own IP and that of their competitors. The question is, how? Patent activity has surged in recent years: Patent filings increased from 175,000 in 1992 to 366,000 in 2004. A company in...

Posted on February 15, 2007 1:16 AM

Separation anxiety (from Corporate Dealmaker)

Breaking out IP in a divestiture gets even more complex when multiple business units within the corporation use it.

Posted on August 15, 2006 12:59 PM

Do you hear dripping? (from Corporate Dealmaker)

If not, maybe you should be listening better. Leakage of licensing fees is weakening more than a few IP management programs.

Posted on June 15, 2006 8:08 PM

It's all in your point of view (from Corporate Dealmaker)

How do you keep a joint development deal from getting tangled in IP issues? By clarifying what's important to both you and your partners.

Posted on April 15, 2006 5:36 PM

How open? (from Corporate Dealmaker)

In the software industry, the open-source movement and customer demands for interoperability are changing everything.

Posted on October 15, 2005 6:05 PM

The China challenge (from Corporate Dealmaker)

The world's most alluring market is also the global center of intellectual property theft.

Posted on October 15, 2005 5:45 PM

The Invisible engine (from Corporate Dealmaker)

A special report on intellectual property and corporate growth.

Posted on October 15, 2005 2:19 PM

My competitor, my partner (from Corporate Dealmaker)

Dow Corning's China footprint just got bigger, the company's Asia chief explains how.

Posted on October 15, 2005 1:58 PM

When brands change hands (from Corporate Dealmaker)

Brand acquisitions are hot these days, but stumbles on the road to securing IP can leave buyers cold.

Posted on June 15, 2005 4:51 PM

Are method patents still valuable? (from Corporate Dealmaker)

Intellectual property issues are looming larger for most companies, but nowhere do they matter more than in the biotechnology industry. That is why a couple of recent decisions on so-called method patents in biotech have attracted such wide interest - and raised so many questions. The first case involved...

Posted on February 15, 2005 1:43 PM

Shopping schools for IP (from Corporate Dealmaker)

At a growing number of companies, the search for innovation now leads beyond their own R&D departments and past the labs over at the competition, or in startup companies. Instead, they're looking to an old source that's gotten newly aggressive in pitching its intellectual property: academia. It would seem...

Posted on December 15, 2004 10:30 AM