16 Jan’18

Insights from WIPO’s “World IP Indicators 2017” Report: Key Patenting Trends Around the Globe

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The World IP Organization (WIPO) has recently published its annual report titled: “World Intellectual Property Indicators 2017”, covering world IP filing activity for 2016.  The report is a comprehensive coverage of global patent and trademark filing trends, comparing and ranking the world’s leading regional patent and trademark offices (“IP Offices”) by their level of activity […]

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19 Dec’17

Year in IP: 3 Outstanding IP Deals of 2017

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The past year has seen some exciting developments in the IP marketplace, as well as in the technology markets where the underlying innovation is created. As a way to recap the 2017 “Year in IP,” we wanted to highlight three deals that uniquely reflect this year’s trends and the factors impacting the market (listed below […]

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04 Nov’15
​It seems that not a day goes by without a commentary about "unicorns," a Silicon Valley-coined term used to describe a startup (pre-exit) with a valuation exceeding $1 billion.

The Role of Intellectual Property in ‘Unicorn’ Valuations

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It seems that not a day goes by without a commentary about “unicorns,” a Silicon Valley-coined term used to describe a startup (pre-exit) with a valuation exceeding $1 billion. The number of unicorns, the vast majority of which are U.S. software companies, has recently crossed the 150 mark, according to the TechCrunch unicorn leaderboard. Topping […]

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03 Nov’15

The Naked Truth: 30% of US Unicorns Have No Patents

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It seems that not a day goes by without a commentary about Unicorns, a Silicon Valley-coined term used to describe a startup (pre-exit) with a valuation exceeding $1 billion. The number of Unicorns, the vast majority of which are US software companies, has recently crossed the 150 mark, according to the TechCrunch Unicorn leaderboard. Topping […]

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