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Wendy Chou
Director



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Ocean Tomo professionals are available to speak on a wide range of intellectual property issues and industry sectors. If you are a member of the news media and would like to request information about the firm, a spokesperson for a story or a speaker for an event, please contact Wendy Chou at (718) 812-6707 or wchou@oceantomo.com.





May 8, 2008
James Malackowski named one of IP Law & Business' "Top 50 IP People Under 45"


May 7, 2008
OTPBA featured in IP Law 360 article, "Ocean Tomo Offers New Site For Patent Transactions"


April 30, 2008
Ocean Tomo featured in Dow Jones article, "IP-Focused Hedge Funds Launch Amid Market Volatility"


April 15, 2008
Ocean Tomo Indexes featured in Financial Times article, "Why insiders are betting on homebuilders"


April 7, 2008
Ocean Tomo Auctions featured in IAM Magazine article, "Ocean Tomo success underlines the growing market for IP"


April 7, 2008
Ocean Tomo Auctions featured in CNET article, "Internet, consumer patents rule at auction"


April 4, 2008
Ocean Tomo Auctions featured in CNET video, "Patent auction nets millions for inventors"


April 3, 2008
Ocean Tomo Auctions featured in MIP Magazine article, "$6M Patent Portfolio Sold at Auction"


April 3, 2008
Ocean Tomo Auctions featured in IAM Magazine article, "Ocean Tomo auction smashes every record going (just about)"


April 3, 2008
Ocean Tomo Auctions featured in MarketWatch article, "As reform brews, pricey ideas put up for bid"


April 3, 2008
Ocean Tomo Auctions featured in MarketWatch article, "Inventor to Web 2.0: Actually, I invented that"


April 3, 2008
Ocean Tomo Auctions featured in MarketWatch video, “Market for Technology Patents


April 2, 2008
Ocean Tomo Auctions featured in CNET article, "Inventors look for cash, recognition at patent auction"


March 20, 2008
Ocean Tomo featured in New York Sun article, "For Patents, Smoot-Leahy"


March 6, 2008
Ocean Tomo featured in IP Law360 article, "Attacks On Patent Trolls Draw Concerns"


February 12, 2008
Ocean Tomo 300® Patent Index featured in IndexUniverse.com article, "Capturing the Value of Innovation"


February 11, 2008
Ocean Tomo featured in EE Times article, "Industry group ponders database, portal for open IP functions"


February 8, 2008
Ocean Tomo featured in The Deal article, "Ocean Tomo and Blueprint rev up the spinout machine"


December 2, 2007

Ocean Tomo featured in EE Times Asia article, "Collaboration is key, say IP experts"


November 10, 2007
Ocean Tomo Auctions featured in Intellectus i article, "Ocean Tomo’s IP Auction is coming to Asia"


October 31, 2007
Ocean Tomo Auctions featured in IP Law360 article, "Ocean Tomo Gains Ground With Patent Auction"


October 26, 2007
Ocean Tomo Auctions featured in Managing Intellectual Property article, "Broadcast patent fetches $1.75m at auction"


October 25, 2007
Ocean Tomo Auctions featured in Science Business article, "Valuing intellectual property"


October/November, 2007
Ocean Tomo Auctions featured in Innovation article, "No Picassos, Lots of Patents"


October 11, 2007

Ocean Tomo Auctions featured in CNET article, "A patent on a poker game?"


September 7, 2007
James E. Malackowski quoted in Chicago Tribune article, "Proposals for patent reform raising fears"


August 2007

Ocean Tomo Auctions featured in ABA Journal article, "IP, Going Once … Twice"


June 28, 2007
Ocean Tomo featured in Law.com article, "Private Equity Helps Fuel IP Wars"


June 26, 2007
James E. Malackowski quoted in Baltimore Sun article, "Law firms on hunt for patent attorneys"


June, 2007
Ocean Tomo Auctions featured in IEEE Spectrum article, "Live Patent Auctions Tantalize Inventors"


May 22, 2007
Ocean Tomo Auctions featured in Unstrung article, "Mobile IPR to Be Auctioned"


May 15, 2007
Ocean Tomo Auctions featured in Wall Street Journal article "Profiting From an Invention"


May 10, 2007
Ocean Tomo Auctions featured in CNET article "Keith Richards in a near-death experience. Does TV get any better?"


May 6, 2007
Ocean Tomo featured in Washington Post article, "Ocean Tomo Catches the Wave in Valuing Intellectual Property"


April 30, 2007

Ocean Tomo Auctions featured in Chicago Sun Times article, "Ocean Tomo catches the wave"


April 26, 2007
Ocean Tomo Auctions featured in Chicago Tribune article, "Ocean Tomo's auction yields $11.4 million"


April 24, 2007
Ocean Tomo featured in Evolution Shift article, "A Historic Day for Intellectual Property"


March 21, 2007
Claymore/Ocean Tomo Patent ETF mentioned on CNBC's "Kudlow & Company"


January 30, 2007
Claymore/Ocean Tomo Patent ETF featured in Wall Street Journal article, "Investors Bombarded By Index-Fund Choices"


January 29, 2007
Ocean Tomo Auctions featured in Forbes article, "Think Local"


January 16, 2007
Claymore/Ocean Tomo Patent ETF featured in Financial Times article, "ETFs with no fund managers - just logic"


January 8, 2007
Ocean Tomo 300® Patent Index featured in BusinessWeek article, "Follow the Patents"


January 1, 2007
Ocean Tomo 300® Patent Index featured in Indianapolis Star article, "Ocean Tomo patent fund invests in good ideas"


December 26, 2006
Claymore/Ocean Tomo Patent ETF featured in TheStreet.com article, "Ocean Tomo 'Patent' ETF a Way to Play Large-Cap Growth"


December 18, 2006
Claymore/Ocean Tomo Patent ETF featured in Barron's article, "Accounting for Creativity --- Invention fuels the economy, but what fuels invention?"


December 15, 2006
Claymore/Ocean Tomo Patent ETF featured in Investor's Business Daily article, "New ETF Tracks Value Of Knowledge Economy"


December 11, 2006
Raymond Millien featured in CBS 2 Chicago broadcast, "Patent Process Difficult At Best"


December, 2006
Ocean Tomo Fall Auction featured in IP Investor article, "The Ocean Tomo Experience"


December 7, 2006
Charles Osgood, voice of CBS Radio, introduces the Ocean Tomo 300® Patent Index (listen)


November 28, 2006
Ocean Tomo 300® Patent Index featured in IPDIGEST article, "An index for intellectual property"


November 26, 2006
Ocean Tomo & James Malackowski featured in Chicago Tribune article, "Sights set on market for patents and trademarks"


November 24, 2006
Ocean Tomo 300® Patent Index featured in Financial Times article, "Profiting from a very good idea, patently"


November 22, 2006
Ocean Tomo 300® Patent Index featured in Quantum Investor article, "Ideas Rule in the 'Knowledge Economy'"


November 19, 2006
Ocean Tomo 300® Patent Index featured in Chicago Sun-Times article, "To Chicago firm, new stock index has a patently obvious appeal"


November 16, 2006
Ocean Tomo featured in New York Times article “Auction of Internet Commerce Patents Draws Concern”


November 15, 2006
Ocean Tomo 300® Patent Index featured in Chicago Tribune article, "Stock index values firms on basis of their patents"


November 13, 2006
Ocean Tomo 300® Patent Index featured in Pension & Investments article, "Index trades on intellectual capital"


November 13, 2006
Ocean Tomo Fall Auction featured in peHUB article, "To Patent or Not to Patent (and Mutual Assured Destruction)"


November 3, 2006
James Malackowski featured in Notre Dame Business article, "Putting a Price Tag on Patents"


October 28, 2006
Ocean Tomo Fall Auction featured in Chicago Tribune article, "Rights to Hendrix's songs hazy"


October 27, 2006

Ocean Tomo Fall Auction featured in Managing Intellectual Property article, "Hey Joe: Jimi Hendrix rights sold for $15 million"


October 27, 2006
Ocean Tomo Fall Auction featured in CNET.com article, "Hendrix recordings fetch $15M in patent auction"


October 25, 2006
Ocean Tomo 300® Patent Index featured in Pension & Investments article, "New index pegged to intellectual property value"


October 23, 2006
Ocean Tomo Auctions featured in Chicago Sun-Times article, "The Introduction of Something New"


October 20, 2006
Ocean Tomo Fall Auction featured in Chicago Tribune article, "New Auction on the Block"


October 4, 2006
Ocean Tomo Fall Auction featured in Vibe article, "Huge Jimi Hendrix Collection to Be Auctioned"


October 2, 2006
Ocean Tomo Fall Auction featured in AllHipHop article, "Live 1999 Public Enemy Album To Go To Highest Bidder"


September 19, 2006
Ocean Tomo featured in Wall Street & Technology article, "Patent Processing"


September 14, 2006
Ocean Tomo ADR Service featured in IP Law360 article, "Ocean Tomo Unveils New IP Dispute Resolution Service"


September 13, 2006
James Malackowski & Ocean Tomo Fall Auction featured on Bloomberg TV's "Morning Call" with Brian Sullivan (WMF)


September 11, 2006
Ocean Tomo featured in Buyouts article, "Patent Marketplace Pending: Ocean Tomo Aims to Build an Asset Class"


Sept. 4, 2006
Ocean Tomo Fall Auction featured in InformationWeek article, "Down To Business: FCC Rakes In More Billions, But At What Cost?"


August/September 2006
James Malackowski featured in Intellectual Asset Management article, "IV Moves from Myth to Reality"


August 28, 2006
Ocean Tomo Fall Auction lots featured in CNET.com article, "Newly found Hendrix song, IBM patents to be auctioned"


August 11 , 2006
Ray Millien quoted in New York Times article “Street Scene: Legal Beat; A Wall Street Rush to Patent Profit-Making Methods”


August 7, 2006

Ocean Tomo IP ABS Special Services featured in Buyouts article, "Coffee and Doughnuts with a Twist: A New Financing Option is Born"


July 25, 2006
Ocean Tomo Fall Auction Jimi Hendrix lot featured in Reuters article, "Never-released Hendrix song to be sold at auction"


July 23, 2006
Raymond Millien quoted in Chicago Tribune article, "Hoarding Names No Game"


July 2006
Ocean Tomo Auctions featured in Inside Counsel Article, "On the Block"


July 2006
Ocean Tomo featured in Business 2.0 article, "The Patent Machine"


May 26, 2006
Ocean Tomo featured in Securitization News article, "Largest Trademark Securitization Closes"


May 10, 2006
Ocean Tomo Auctions featured in CNET.com article, "Patent auction pays more in the end"


May 8, 2006
Raymond Millien featured in The National Law Journal article, "Charting a Fresh Course in IP Law"


May 8, 2006
Ocean Tomo Auctions featured in The National Law Journal article, "Patent Auctions: An Emerging Trend?"


April 19, 2006
Ocean Tomo Auctions featured in The Daily Deal article, "Why Patent Auctions are Here to Stay"


April 7, 2006

Ocean Tomo Auctions featured in CNBC's "On the Money"


March 31, 2006
Ocean Tomo featured in National Center for Industrial Property Information and Training (NCIPI) report, "Emerging Secondary Markets for Intellectual Property" (pages 126-129)


March 16, 2006
Ocean Tomo Auctions featured in The Daily Herald article, "New way to market inventions"


March 9, 2006
Ocean Tomo Auctions featured in The Wall Street Journal article, "Inventors See Promise in Large-Scale Public Patent Auctions"


March 3, 2006
Ocean Tomo Auctions featured in CNET.com article, "Patent Auctions: Lawyer's dream or way of
the future?
"


March 2, 2006
James Malackowski & Ocean Tomo Spring Auction featured on Bloomberg TV's "Morning Call" with Brian Sullivan (WMF)


February/March 2006

James Malackowski featured in Intellectual Asset Management article, "The Deal Makers"


February 27, 2006
Ocean Tomo Auctions featured in Barron's article, "On the Block: Patents that Time Forgot"


February 23, 2006
James Malackowski quoted in Red Herring article, "All Eyes on BlackBerry Judge"


February 20, 2006
Ocean Tomo mentioned in Information Week article, "The U.S. Patent System In Crisis"


January 14, 2005
James Malackowski quoted in Financial Post article, "Patent troll or producer? The evolution of intellectual property"


January 11, 2005
Ocean Tomo featured in I/P Updates article, "The New I/P Marketplace"


January 9, 2005
Ocean Tomo Auctions featured in "Fuji Sankei Business i on the Web"


December 9, 2005
Ocean Tomo featured in CNET.com article, "Prodigy Up For Sale"


November 2005
Ocean Tomo Capital Fund featured in Corporate Legal Times article, "Patent Trolls Go Mainstream with Ocean Tomo Fund"


September 19, 2005
Keith Cardoza featured in Crain's Chicago article, "Putting A Value On Intellectual Property"


September 9, 2005

Ocean Tomo Capital Fund featured in Forbes.com article, "Perot Backs $200 Million Bet on Patents"


September 8, 2005
Ocean Tomo Auctions featured in IP Law Bulletin article, "Merchant Bank Puts Patents on Auction Block"


August 10, 2005
Ocean Tomo Capital Fund featured in Chicago Sun Times






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