About Ocean Tomo

Established in 2003, Ocean Tomo, LLC, is the leading Intellectual Capital Merchant Banc™ firm. The company provides financial products and services related to intellectual property, including expert services, valuation, research, ratings, investments, risk management, and transactions. Ocean Tomo assists clients - corporations, law firms, governments & institutional investors - in realizing Intellectual Property Capital Equity® value broadly defined.

The name Ocean Tomo reflects the firm’s vision as an Intellectual Capital Merchant Banc™ firm.

OCEAN reflects the cross-oceanic nature of intellectual property as well as the legal acronym for the adverse possession of property (Open, Continuous, Exclusive, Adverse and Notorious), a concept relevant to many forms of intellectual capital.

TOMO is a Japanese word for intelligent and friendly and reflects the Asian notion of an integrated, friendly group of related businesses.

Ocean Tomo's culture is entrepreneurial, open and based on a foundation of common sense. Most importantly, Ocean Tomo is an organization built on the concept of the "team" where every employee makes a difference. Our culture is a key differentiator when recruiting new professionals and can be seen in our actions, policies and values.

A History of Leadership

For more than 25 years, Ocean Tomo professionals have led the field with respect to intellectual capital thought leadership. Select milestones of achievement include:

1987	Organized first national practice to offer intellectual property valuation opinions at a time when the Big-8 accountancies refused to address this growing asset class.
1988	Co-founded first dedicated, full-service intellectual property consultancy offering advice on valuation, litigation damages and tax.
1993	Created first integrated intellectual property strategy consulting group offering Intellectual Property Quality Management services to large Fortune 500 clients.
1999	Founded first private equity advisory partnership to originate large-scale investments based on underlying intellectual capital.
2002	Creation of first scaled investment banking practice, in partnership with leading Wall Street firm, dedicated exclusively to patent based structured finance.
2003	Created nation's first integrated Intellectual Capital Merchant Banc™ firm.
2004	Ocean Tomo acquired interest in PatentRatings.
2005	Created nation's first private equity and debt fund to invest in growing companies with strong intellectual property.
2006	Successfully established a Live Public Auction Marketplace for intellectual property rights. Created the nation’s first index based on the value of intellectual property. The Ocean Tomo 300® Patent Index launched in September on the American Stock Exchange.
2008	Created Patent Bid-Ask, the first and only voice brokerage and online marketplace for intellectual property. Created The Intellectual Property Exchange International (IPXI) the world’s first financial exchange with an Intellectual Property focus.
2009	Created OTI, the first and only comprehensive source of global intellectual property-based market information that combines a free global patent search with timely and actionable market intelligence.
2010	Created PatentMarking.com, the first and only online platform designed for the management of patent marking data

Today, our professionals hold leadership roles in the preeminent technology transfer societies, intellectual property focused government think-tanks, intangible finance technical journals, and non-profit invention organizations. Our current and future service offerings are built upon this platform of success and a perspective that can only be achieved from a leadership view.