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The Crucial Steps To Raising Private Capital For Your Business
Private Equity Recapitalizations, Management Buyouts, Partial Liquidity Events, Industry Insights, Capital Raise, Owner Considerations, Capital Solutions, Growth Capital
There are a number of factors that a business owner needs to be aware of when they start the process of raising private capital. In addition to navigating the various channels that may provide funding for your business, you will need to have a clear plan and course of...
Patent Valuation and Baseball Players
IP & Patents, M&A, Business Valuation
It appears that patents and baseball players share similar odds of success and the same value curve. Likelihood of Success The chances of a high school baseball player making it to Major League Baseball are roughly equivalent to an inventor deriving commercial...
Rock Star Suicides and Patent Apportionment
M&A, Business Valuation, IP & Patents
Solo performing rock starts are much more likely to die prematurely than rock stars that are members of a band. The reason is solo performers are more likely to engage in destructive behavior (e.g. drug and alcohol abuse) than members of a band. According to research...
Strategies for Negotiating Licenses
Negotiating, M&A, Business Valuation, IP & Patents
You will never get the license agreement your technology deserves. You get the license agreement you negotiate. With this in mind, it is important for inventors, licensing professionals and intellectual property lawyers to constantly hone their negotiating skills....
Patent Valuation and the Global IP Index
M&A, Business Valuation, Negotiating
Suppose you are valuing a large patent portfolio with issued patents and pending applications in more than 20 countries throughout the world. One of your tasks would be to project how much royalties each patent could collect in each of the subject countries over time....
Worthless Patents Can Be Invaluable
M&A, Business Valuation, IP & Patents
Let’s say that we are reviewing a patent with very narrow and very poorly constructed claims that read on something that doesn’t seem to have any commercialization potential. Further, the prosecution history was very contentious and resulted in the patentee making...