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Fraserburgh | United Kingdom | 13 Jan 2016
NPEs: the second bounce of the ball
In a December 31 2015 article I analysed why the current responses of non-practising entities (NPEs) to the failure of their core strategy were…
Fraserburgh | United Kingdom | 9 Dec 2015
IP value for investors: pulchritudo in oculo conspicientis est
All original art is unique. By definition, everything original that was ever painted, sculpted, written or sung is the result of the inspiration and…
Fraserburgh | USA | 18 Nov 2015
Manage your intellectual property - but account for it too
Valeant is an aggregator of drugs run by a former McKinsey consultant and backed by hedge funds. In this respect, it is not your typical…
Fraserburgh | USA | 16 Sep 2015
IP investing on the road from zero to one: part two
Over the past decade, as demand for photographic film plummeted, Eastman Kodak Co went bankrupt, sold its intellectual property in a fire sale and is…
Fraserburgh | USA | 9 Sep 2015
IP investing on the road from zero to one: part one
PayPal founder and venture capitalist Peter Thiel recently described the two competing economic paradigms for growth. These are: horizontal growth…
Fraserburgh | USA | 19 Aug 2015
Buy-backs, bouncing bombs, archimedes and innovation
In May 2015 veteran corporate raider/activist Carl Icahn lobbied Apple to increase the size of its share buy-back programme. Icahn believes that this…
Fraserburgh | United Kingdom | 5 Aug 2015
Intellectual property: the worst-communicated secret in value creation
Intellectual property - the fundamental know-how that underpins corporate competitiveness - is the primary driver of business success in the 21st…
Fraserburgh | United Kingdom | 29 Jul 2015
How to get money and overnight success
The single most common question that I am asked by entrepreneurs and multinational corporations seeking to monetise their intellectual property is:…
Fraserburgh | Global | 15 Jul 2015
A new golden age?
Henry Ford once famously said, "If I'd have asked my customers what they wanted, they would have told me 'A faster horse.'" This philosophy was a…
Fraserburgh | USA | 24 Jun 2015
Patents as an asset class: the law of unintended consequences
Intellectual property finds itself in a precarious position when described as an asset class. Whatever truth was living in that classification has…
