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New Financial Concepts in Patents

The bear market, the uncertain economy and pre-war jitters caused companies to seek to increase their cash reserves and to look aggressively for opportunities to increase their revenue. Certain advanced financial strategies recently used in financial markets may offer companies the opportunity to do just that. In particular, in-house patent attorneys and consultants should seriously consider recommending patent monetization as an alternative to standard patent licensing. The emerging monetization strategies that provide alternatives to licensing are founded on the growing appreciation that patents are actually an asset class in a financial sense as compared to a mere asset from an accounting sense. An asset class, as distinct from an asset, comprises a collection of assets that have in common systematic or macroeconomic drivers of price and risk.

19 minute read October 07, 2003 at 01:47 PM
By
Nir Kossovsky
New Financial Concepts in Patents

The bear market, the uncertain economy and pre-war jitters caused companies to seek to increase their cash reserves and to look aggressively for opportunities to increase their revenue. Certain advanced financial strategies recently used in financial markets may offer companies the opportunity to do just that.

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