Over the last year, market-wide uncertainty has swelled to levels not seen for over a decade. Market fluctuations now have investors increasingly searching for non-correlated returns across all asset classes in an effort to diversify away the risk brought on by this volatile market. Should investors turn to precious metals? Real estate? Emerging markets? There […]
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Ocean Tomo Transactions Surpasses $850 Million in Intellectual Property Transactions in 2020
Earlier today, Ocean Tomo announced the updated performance of its subsidiary Ocean Tomo Transactions, LLC, part of the Advisory Services practice of Ocean Tomo. Ocean Tomo has served as a trusted advisor to large and small operating company patent owners, successfully closing numerous transactions with a cumulative transaction value of over $850 million. Completed transactions […]
Intellectual Property as a Non-Correlated Investment
Since the start of the year, market-wide uncertainty has swelled to levels not seen for over a decade. Market fluctuations now have investors increasingly searching for non-correlated returns across all asset classes in an effort to diversify away risk brought on by this volatile market. Should investors turn to precious metals? Real estate? Emerging markets? […]
Bow River Capital Partners with Ocean Tomo to Expand Size and Scope of Firm
Earlier this morning Bow River Capital 2017 Fund (“Bow River”) announced that it has completed a recapitalization of Ocean Tomo. Bow River’s investment and commitment to follow-on acquisitions expands Ocean Tomo’s industry leading platform and compliments the firms’ 2018 international expansion with Sinofaith IP Group. As part of the transaction, Ocean Tomo’s existing equity owners […]
Ocean Tomo Investment Group, FINRA Registered Broker-Dealer
Ocean Tomo announced today the creation of Ocean Tomo Investment Group, LLC, an independent licensed broker-dealer under federal and state securities law. Ocean Tomo Investment Group provides technology rich companies with holistic corporate advisory, investment banking and capital raising services. Director Ryan Zurek, who holds series 7 FINRA registration, joins Andrew W. Carter and James […]
Thoughts on the Marvell Technology Class Action
I am always looking for signs that the anti-assertion pendulum is swinging back. The first material evidence came last year when the US Trade Representative, acting on behalf of the Obama administration, upheld the ITC’s exclusion order against Samsung due to the fact that Samsung, in its capacity as potential licensee of certain AAPL patents, […]
Ocean Tomo 300® Patent Index Enters Eighth Year of Trading
Today the Ocean Tomo 300® Patent Index(OTPAT), the only index based on the value of corporate intellectual property, was reconstituted. The Index is a diversified listing of the 300 companies that own the most valuable patent portfolios relative to the book value of the company. The Index provides a meaningful benchmark for the performance of […]
Thoughts on the Microsoft and Nokia Transaction
Some in and around the IP community have criticized the Microsoft (MSFT)/Nokia (NOK) transaction as anticompetitive. For example, David Balto, a former policy director of the Federal Trade Commission, wrote in the Huffington Post, “When competitors form a truce, consumers need to worry because often they find ways to make consumers pay more by cutting […]