Posted on November 3, 2008 at 9:49 AM
Filed under: Best Practices | Corporate Strategy | Information Technology | Intellectual property | Joint Ventures and Alliances
Tagged: Auditude , Jeff Berman , Mika Salmi , MTV , MTV Networks , MySpace , Reno 911 , The Colbert Report , Viacom

The basic idea is profit from piracy. Users of online social networks, such as MySpace, like to jazz up their profiles with the latest songs and videos, often with illegally downloaded music and video clips from places such as MTV. Rather than fight about it, MySpace and Viacom Inc.'s...  Continue reading

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Posted on October 24, 2008 at 12:18 PM
Filed under: Acquisitions | Divesting and Restructuring | Growth Strategy | Intellectual property
Tagged: Abilify , Bristol-Myers , ConvaTec , earnings , Eli Lilly , ImClone Systems , James Cornelius , Plavix

Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. said its net earnings for the third quarter increased to about $2.6 billion from $858 million in the previous year's period. The New York-based pharma giant now has about $7.2 billion cash on hand, too. In a conference call, chairman and CEO James Cornelius said "we have a long list of companies, compounds, technologies we'd like to acquire over the next couple...  Continue reading

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Posted on October 7, 2008 at 10:24 AM
Filed under: Corporate Strategy | Deal International | Divesting and Restructuring | Intellectual property | Joint Ventures and Alliances | People
Tagged: Abu Dhabi , Advanced Micro Devices , Advanced Technology Investment Co. , AMD , ATIC , Dirk Meyer , Doug Grose , Hector Ruiz , Middle East , Mubadala Development Co. , New York , The Foundry Co.

Debt-ridden Advanced Micro Devices Inc., the second-largest global supplier of microprocessors, is spinning off its manufacturing business into a joint venture with Middle Eastern investors so it can focus on the business of designing microprocessors. The new manufacturing entity, the Foundry Co., will include a soon-to-be-built factory near Albany, N.Y.,...  Continue reading

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Posted on September 23, 2008 at 9:59 AM
Filed under: Corporate Strategy | Intellectual property | Joint Ventures and Alliances
Tagged: alliances , CBS , CSI , Hannah Montana , Netflix , partnerships , Walt Disney

Netflix Inc. continues to grow its Web of partners to facilitate the viewing of content online. While the company makes its money delivering DVDs, it has been building its video-streaming business that allows subscribers to download and view movies and television programs on their computers or mobile devices. Netflix on...  Continue reading

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Posted on September 11, 2008 at 11:57 AM
Filed under: Acquisitions | CD Community | Corporate Strategy | Deal International | Growth Strategy | Intellectual property | Joint Ventures and Alliances | People
Tagged: AlixPartners , Eli Harari , Samsung , SanDisk

It looks like we may have an answer to our previous question, "Will Samsung acquire SanDisk?" Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., the world's No. 2 chipmaker, already pays several hundred million dollars a year to use SanDisk Corp. patents. That may have seemed like justification enough to pay around $3 billion for the flash storage market leader, but as dealmakers know, M&A issues run far deeper on cross-border deals...  Continue reading

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Posted on September 5, 2008 at 9:11 AM
Filed under: Acquisitions | Corporate Strategy | Deal International | Intellectual property | Joint Ventures and Alliances
Tagged: flash memory , Samsung , SanDisk , Toshiba

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. may acquire Milpitas, Calif.'s SanDisk Corp., the world's largest supplier of flash storage card products. Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. estimates show Samsung already pays $400 million to $500 million annually to use SanDisk's flash memory patents, which could be reason enough to justify the acquisition ...  Continue reading

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Posted on July 31, 2008 at 2:30 PM
Filed under: Deal International | Intellectual property | Trends
Tagged: kyrgyz republic , wipo , world trade organization

Believers in free trade may fret over the collapse on Tuesday of the World Trade Organization's latest round of talks, named for Doha, capital of Qatar, where they began in 2001. But for those who were paying attention, the blow was cushioned by a June event in an even more...  Continue reading

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Posted on July 25, 2008 at 2:09 PM
Filed under: Deal International | Intellectual property | Joint Ventures and Alliances
Tagged: Intellectual property , joint ventures , negotiating

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...  Continue reading

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Posted on July 3, 2008 at 12:00 PM
Filed under: Acquisitions | Corporate Strategy | Intellectual property
Tagged: Amdahl Corp. , Bart Schachter , Blueprint Ventures , IBM , Platform Solutions

With news on Wednesday that IBM would acquire upstart mainframe challenger Platform Solutions Inc., we checked in for an update with Bart Schachter, a managing partner with Blueprint Ventures, which helped PSI spinout of Fujitsu Ltd.-owned Amdahl Corp. back in 1999. It's a story we chronicled last year in Corporate...  Continue reading

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Posted on June 26, 2008 at 9:52 AM
Filed under: Acquisitions | Corporate Strategy | Intellectual property
Tagged: GB Brothers Group , Hilco Organization , Sharper Image , Windsong Brands

On June 2 we reported on the unique strategy being employed by the new owners of the Sharper Image brand. The brand and bankrupt assets of Sharper Image Corp. were bought by a joint venture that included the PE firms Hilco Consumer Capital and WindSong Brands, IP management specialist GB...  Continue reading

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