Privateering is becoming especially prevalent in the acquisition of patent portfolios from other companies.
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Paul Ryan is CEO of Acacia Research, which manages patent portfolios for over 160 companies.
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Among big companies with big patent portfolios, these things are usually settled out in a swap.
Now he'll only invest in companies with strong patent portfolios, something he says other investors often overlook.
The parties also entered into a cross license of their respective patent portfolios in the advanced television field.
Aptina and Sony have built industry leading patent portfolios that include seminal image sensor patents covering image capture and processing methods.
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The belief that patents can protect trivial expressions of ingenuity is leading to patent portfolios becoming more important than the companies that own them.
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It is well-known that big tech companies are spending billions amassing patent portfolios and wielding them as competitive weapons against each other and their smaller challengers.
After Detkin came aboard, he started working his contacts in Silicon Valley, cold-calling law firms, licensing agencies and patent agents to identify bankrupt or distressed clients who were interested in selling patent portfolios.
That is especially true for technology companies, but based on the above I would argue that savvy investors need to also look for companies that have strong patent portfolios, particularly with regard to those technologies that are on the cusp of going mainstream.
Over the past year, through the acquisition of OLED patent portfolios, new partnerships with companies both domestically and in South Korea, and the expansion of our facilities, we have been making the investments that we anticipate will enable us to remain at the forefront of an industry that we believe is only now entering the early stages of a period of significant growth.
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To safely operate in the mobile industry, a company needs to have substantial portfolios in the three main patent areas involved in the design of smartphones: operating system and software, hardware and wireless patents.
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During the last two decades, Nokia has invested approximately EUR 43 billion in research and development and built one of the wireless industry's strongest and broadest IPR portfolios, with over 10, 000 patent families.
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