Many companies have made significant investments in research and product development and have generated valuable intellectual property portfolios. The challenge for most companies is how to extract the value from the intellectual property. Most companies are good at their core business but might not fully understand or have the experience to sell and license intellectual property.

ipCapital Licensing Company has a time-tested team and process that provides results for selling and licensing intellectual property.

Recent News

Dataram Corporation, a leading international manufacturer of computer memory, storage and software products, announces that it has sold thirteen patents and two patent applications to Phan Tia Group Pte. LLC, for a purchase price of $5 million. ipCapital Group assisted in patent valuation, and ipCapital Licensing Company supported Dataram on the negotiation and successful close of this transaction.

As an add-on to the three-day ipCG Thought Leadership Conference, an intellectual property licensing seminar, "Mining the Gold: New Strategies for Leveraged Licensing Plays," was held by John Cronin, Managing Director, John Ciannamea, Partner, Dennis McBride, Partner, and Fred DuFresne, Senior Advisor of ipCapital Licensing Company. The seminar focused on why standard licensing no longer works, leveraging the new licensing “axis”, leveraging the litigation spectrums, along with other new strategies.

John Cronin, Managing Director, and Marshall Phelps, ipCapital Group Board Member, are the authors of “Mining Patent Gold: What Every CEO Should Know,” an article detailing recent large IP transactions and trends in the industry. The article, published in Forbes Magazine on September 9, 2011 can be found at the Forbes site.

afterBOT, Inc. was awarded a third patent for digital receipt system www.afterbot.com. See an example of mining patent gold related to the commercialization of an IP portfolio.

John Ciannamea, Partner, and John Cronin, Managing Director are the authors of "Maximizing Value from Distressed Portfolio Companies ," an article describing the potentially lucrative benefits of intellectual property licensing and sales as an alternative to bankruptcy and other choices for failing companies published in the July, 2010 issue of Venture Capital Journal.