Ocean Tomo Insights

Ocean Tomo 300® Patent Index (OTPAT) Announces New Constituent Companies in Sixth Year of Trading

Tue, 11/01/2011 - 11:36am — Michael Friedman

In today’s blog post, which coincides with the announcement of the 2011 Ocean Tomo 300® Patent Index (OT300) constituents, I would like to make special mention of three companies.

Chicago Ideas Week and the Power of Intellectual Capital

Mon, 10/17/2011 - 11:07am — Tim Binney

Last week I attended a few of the events put on by Chicago Ideas Week, Brad Keywell’s weeklong series of over 100 presentations by world-renowned speakers with the goal of creating “an ecosystem of innovation, exploration, and intellectual recreation.”

Development of an Intellectual Property-Based Investment Strategy

Thu, 10/13/2011 - 1:43pm — Michael Friedman

After many years as a mergers and acquisitions and securities lawyer, I began investing in special situations professionally in 1996. Although the strategy has evolved to include any sort of idiosyncratic trade around a specific event or catalyst, then it was basically merger arbitrage.

For the entire period prior to 2000, before such field leveling laws as Sarbanes-Oxley and Regulation FD, a special situations investor could outperform the market by exploiting the informational advantage that came from just researching harder.

Plenary Session Report from the WEF Summit on the Global Agenda 2011 by Jim Malackowski

Mon, 10/10/2011 - 1:56pm — Jim Malackowski

I attended the first plenary session for the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council meeting this morning, sharing the room with a most distinguished panel of regional and global leaders including the Ruler of Abu Dhabi, the Ruler of Dubai and Prime Minister Gordon Brown.

Quality of issued patents bear out claim that Steve Jobs was a leading innovator

Thu, 10/06/2011 - 3:35pm — Elvir Causevic

We at Ocean Tomo were shocked and saddened to hear about Steve Jobs’ untimely departure. He has been an inspiration to many of us, setting a bar on what is possible, and challenging us to out innovate everything we’ve ever done before.

As an IP professional, I did some analysis of Mr. Jobs patenting history, to satisfy my own curiosity.

Welcome to Ocean Tomo Insights!

Wed, 10/05/2011 - 4:17pm — Jim Malackowski

As Chairman and CEO of Ocean Tomo, I would like to welcome you to our new blog - Ocean Tomo Insights.

For more than 25 years, Ocean Tomo professionals have been at the forefront of intellectual capital thought leadership. Today, we begin sharing our insights through this blog.