Patents as Commodities
No longer simply a decorative plaque on the wall or a mere asset on a balance sheet, patents are quickly becoming valuable commodities to be bought, sold, and bartered by sophisticated businesses and market players.
As a result of rising patent damages awards and as evidenced by recent high-profile patent transactions -- from the $4.5 billion sale of Nortel's patents, to the $12.5 billion purchase of Motorola Mobility by Google, to Kodak's $527 million sale of 1,100 digital imaging patents -- the patent market is thriving as product manufacturers, patent aggregators, and licensing entities alike are acquiring patents. This phenomenon is not limited to large-scale purchases; smaller portfolio transactions are increasingly commonplace. Indeed, healthy and distressed companies alike are marketing their patents.
To read the full article, click here
Related Semiconductor IP
- LPDDR6/5X/5 PHY V2 - Intel 18A-P
- ML-KEM Key Encapsulation & ML-DSA Digital Signature Engine
- MIPI SoundWire I3S Peripheral IP
- ML-DSA Digital Signature Engine
- P1619 / 802.1ae (MACSec) GCM/XTS/CBC-AES Core
Related Blogs
- Firmware as the performance differentiator for SSD controllers
- Bluetooth set as short range wireless standard for smart energy!
- Outsourcers Look To China, As Obama Goes To India
- What will it take for FPGAs to become as ubiquitous as processors?
Latest Blogs
- PCIe Low-Power Validation Challenges and Potential Solutions (PIPE/L1 Substates)
- Rethinking Edge AI Interconnects: Why Multi-Protocol Is the New Standard
- Tidying Up: FIPS-Compliant Secure Zeroization for OTP
- Accelerating Your Development: Simplify SoC I/O with a Single Multi-Protocol SerDes IP
- Why What Where DIFI and the new version 1.3