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If Kraft Foods Inc. (NYSE:KFT) wins Cadbury plc (NYSE:CBY), it still might face a hole in its U.S. pantry. Evidently, Cadbury and Hershey Co. (NYSE:HSY) are joined at the hip via a 1988 licensing agreement that could leave Kraft without many of Cadbury's key products, such as its famous Creme...
Posted on September 10, 2009 11:07 AM
With big pharmaceutical companies looking to load their pipelines and biotechnology firms looking for capital to keep afloat, licensing deals between the two are a mainstay of the industry. And as such, not every deal gets a mention here. But a transaction announced Tuesday involving Novavex Inc. (NASDAQ:NVAX) and the...
Posted on July 1, 2009 9:40 AM
Alex Lash's cover story in the current issue of The Deal newsweekly explores dealmaking in Japan. While the focus is Japanese drugmakers striking deals -- M&A and licensing, mostly -- to expand westward, the piece includes plenty of detail of interest to any corporation looking to acquire or team up...
Posted on June 16, 2008 10:08 AM
Intellectual property due diligence is a component of nearly every M&A and private equity transaction. When acquiring or investing, a buyer's primary interest in a target company is often the perceived value of its IP portfolio. Even when the buyer isn't initially targeting IP per se, the IP portfolio...
Posted on May 30, 2008 9:23 AM
There was an intriguing tidbit in the upbeat results that BlackBerry maker Research In Motion Ltd. reported Wednesday: In the fiscal quarter just ended (which saw revenue surge 102% above the same period a year ago), the company also spent $310 million acquiring intangible assets. What did they buy? No...
Posted on April 3, 2008 4:36 PM
The lawsuits flying between Motorola Inc. and Research In Motion Ltd. offer up yet another example of just how tenuous the relationship between licensee and licensor can be, particularly in the technology industry, where a single product might be underpinned by technology from multiple companies (check out this Corporate...
Posted on February 19, 2008 3:47 PM
They can smooth the path to market for complex technologies, but they do entail some loss of control for licensors.
Posted on October 15, 2007 9:05 AM
More than 100,000 spectators packed the grandstands and infield at Churchill Downs on May 5 to watch as Street Sense followed in the hoofprints of Aristides, who won the first Kentucky Derby in 1875. The Derby is by a long shot the biggest day of the year for the...
Posted on June 15, 2007 5:20 PM
When Yahoo! Inc. sought out an alliance with eBay Inc. last spring, Joseph Siino nabbed a coveted U.S. ad partnership -- and an edge over its biggest competitor, Google Inc. Several months before that, Siino negotiated an intellectual property rights agreement with Alibaba.com Corp., China's leading Internet business, gaining...
Posted on December 15, 2006 9:44 PM
A partnership to pursue unified communications might make a big difference -- once the two sides settle the details and show they can work together.
Posted on October 15, 2006 5:52 PM
Kenneth Gersh's legal background is bound to come in handy in his new job as senior vice president for business development at MLB Advanced Media LP, the lucrative online unit of Major League Baseball. A one-time general counsel for CBS SportsLine.com Inc., Gersh moves over this month from CBS...
Posted on October 15, 2006 4:37 PM
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
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
Business development is largely about building relationships -- with joint venture partners, research collaborators, licensees -- and you can't build relationships consistently and efficiently without strong networks. No one knows this better than John Tao of Air Products and Chemicals Inc. As corporate director for technology partnerships at this...
Posted on June 15, 2006 6:43 PM
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Building software through an open-source community might result in a better product, but from a licensing standpoint it can be a nightmare. A single open-source application might contain millions of lines of code written by countless programmers worldwide. To help protect users of the application from copyright-infringement accusations, contributing...
Posted on April 15, 2006 6:01 PM
The legal consequences of avoiding sensitive topics in deal negotiations, and why accounting issues should be considered before choosing a collaborative deal structure.
Posted on April 15, 2006 5:43 PM
The licensing of intellectual property continues its climb up the agendas of senior-level executives at leading companies. That's the finding of McKinsey & Co.'s most recent survey of licensing activity, a follow-on to a 2003 survey. Final results are still being tallied, but a preliminary look at the data shows...
Posted on February 15, 2006 2:51 PM
What to share? What to shield? As globalization gives rise to more complex licensing deals, companies seek the optimal mix of patents, know-how and protection.
Posted on February 15, 2006 2:39 PM
When you're moving content into a new space, deal structure and business model can be big challenges. But companies like Marvel Entertainment and ESPN are getting it done.
Posted on December 15, 2005 7:05 PM
At Honeywell International, IP commercialization is a key part of a strategic and cultural revival.
Posted on October 15, 2005 6:27 PM
How Emerson Process Management taps a knowledge management application to develop new products with suppliers, saving a bundle in the process.
Posted on June 15, 2005 6:08 PM
Shire Pharmaceuticals Group plc is Britain's third-largest pharmaceuticals company, but it doesn't have a team of brainy scientists hunched over test tubes trying to come up with the world's next big blockbuster drug.
Posted on April 15, 2005 2:05 PM
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