Efrat Kasznik (pictured right) is an intellectual property valuation expert who has close to 20 years of consulting experience. Kasznik, who is President of Foresight Valuation Group, works with clients by helping them evaluate, protect and ultimately commercialize intangible assets. She specializes in performing valuations and valuations of intangible assets for financial reporting, tax compliance, transfer pricing, […]
New patent laws in the U.S., the long backlog at the patent office, as well as the increased risk of patent litigation, make it absolutely critical for a startup to start building its intellectual property (IP) portfolio as early as possible. Unfortunately in our startup advisory practice, we repeatedly see startups come to us after […]
For two decades, companies that buy software patents to sue technology giants have been the scourge of Silicon Valley. Reviled as patent trolls, they have attacked everything from Google’s online ads to Apple’s iPhone features, sometimes winning hundreds of millions of dollars. But now the trolls are in retreat from the tech titans, interviews and […]
The need to value patent portfolios may be even greater after the Supreme Court’s decision in the Alice case. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) may require more transparency among public companies when it comes to valuing their patent portfolios. Now, such portfolios generally do not have to be formally valued and reported to interested […]
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