As the value of corporations continues to shift from tangible assets to intangibles such as patents, copyrights, trademarks and customer contracts, an increasing number of bankruptcies and corporate restructurings involve intellectual property (IP) matters. Due to this increase in disputes related to IP rights and value, the potential risk exposure for all creditors of improper […]
Ocean Tomo Serves as Intellectual Property Financial Advisor in the Cengage Learning Restructuring
Ocean Tomo supported Cengage Learning’s plan of reorganization by serving as the lead valuation advisor to the debtors with regards to valuing certain copyrights that were part of the debtors’ estate. The copyrights represented a meaningful portion of Cengage Learning’s owned copyright portfolio and impacted the recovery of all creditor classes, and we undertook a […]
SXSW: The NSA, Snapchat, and Privacy: Should You be Freaking Out?
Ocean Tomo has three employees attending this year’s South by Southwest (SXSW) conference in Austin, Texas. The OTInsights blog will feature the team’s observations and experiences all week. For a live look into SXSW, follow Josh Gammon @GammonIP, Maria Lazarova @lazarovam and Nash Ream @NashReam on Twitter. Werner Vogels, CTO of Amazon.com, moderated a lively […]
SXSW: FIRST Robotics Competition
Ocean Tomo has three employees attending this year’s South by Southwest (SXSW) conference in Austin, Texas. The OTInsights blog will feature the team’s observations and experiences all week. For a live look into SXSW, follow Josh Gammon @GammonIP, Maria Lazarova @lazarovam and Nash Ream @NashReam on Twitter. Ocean Tomo heard from Dean Kamen, prolific inventor […]
SXSW: Clubbing the Patent Trolls: How We Can Fight Back
Ocean Tomo has three employees attending this year’s South by Southwest (SXSW) conference in Austin, Texas. The OTInsights blog will feature the team’s observations and experiences all week. For a live look into SXSW, follow Josh Gammon @GammonIP, Maria Lazarova @lazarovam and Nash Ream @NashReam on Twitter. SXSW Interactive 2014 is off to a great […]