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		<title>The Use of IP valuation in IP transactions, a Global Survey of IP Brokers</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 14:20:46 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Valuation]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Discounted Cash Flow]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The valuation of intellectual property (IP) such as patents, or of non-patented technologies, is still considered by many to be more of an art than a science. While IP valuation might appear to be a routine task for a technology/patent broker, in fact most of the time it can be really difficult to value a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What is the Real Value in Real Options?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jan 2012 09:42:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Winston Churchill may have characterized real options as a riddle, wrapped inside a mystery in an enigma. Intellectual property portfolio managers from some of the world&#8217;s largest companies insist that they can only evaluate the merits of research projects with the help of real options. Other patent managers quite simply believe that real options is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>International or foreign patent filing strategies</title>
		<link>http://www.ipeg.eu/?p=3328</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jan 2012 12:12:38 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Patent Management]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Border detention]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every once in a while it makes sense to reconsider one&#8217;s international or foreign patent filing strategies, basically asking in which jurisdictions should I try to obtain patent protection, and on what basis should I make such decisions. To do this we pulled together comments from IPR colleagues in corporate IP departments, in academia, in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Year of the Patent Bull Market</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 14:17:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[history]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Acer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Apple]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[HP patent portfolio]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[HTC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Invensas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kodak Ericsson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MEMS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Microsoft patents]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Quanta]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[2001 showed us a world economy in turmoil, financial instability in  the European Union and a looming recession in most of the major EU countries, falling prices on major stock markets.  How different the market for strategic IP was in 2011. The patent market did no less than transform itself into an astounding bull market, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Christmas Patents</title>
		<link>http://www.ipeg.eu/?p=3241</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 12:36:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Christmas traditionally is more than a religious and cultural holiday celebrated by billions of people around the world, time for lighting Christmas trees, the hanging of wreaths, Christmas stockings, candy canes, Christmas pudding and roasted turkey and other special food. So how does the patent community celebrate Christmas? Not much different than others, one would [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Polish Presidency delivers failed EU Unitary Patent initiative</title>
		<link>http://www.ipeg.eu/?p=3190</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 09:45:52 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[EU Patent]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[EPLAW, the European Patent Law Association is vehemently against the rickety proposal the Polish EU presidency put forward for the EU Unitary Patent Court. Its president,  Dr. Jochen Pagenberg, just posted a press release expressing EPLAW&#8217;s grave concerns: &#8220;European industry, patent, judges and patent lawyers have become concerned about the latest developments in Brussels with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Patent Law Treaty, Promises Not Delivered</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 06:26:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On 19 December 2011, Cees Mulder will defend at Maastricht University a PhD thesis entitled: “On the Alignment of the European Patent Convention and the Patent Cooperation Treaty with Requirements of the Patent Law Treaty”.  The Patent Law Treaty (PLT) was drafted with the aim to “streamline and harmonize” formal requirements set by national or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>D-Day for EU Patent</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 09:38:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today and tomorrow the EU Competitiveness Council meets in Brussels under the current Polish Presidency.  On December 2, EPLAW had its Annual Congress in Brussels. Needless to say what the main topic was: will the European Unitary Patent ever come into existence? On September 27, 2011 EPLAW adopted a strongly worded resolution. The participants were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IP Service Providers, An Underexposed Group</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 16:59:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The International Conference &#8220;IP Service World&#8220;, by the Germany based &#8220;Management Circle&#8221;, organized its 2nd conference this week in Noordwijkerhout (near Amsterdam). Where most IP conferences target IP trial attorneys, trademark practitioners and patent attorneys, this conference aims to provide companies that deliver software tools, search databases, IP publications and other IP products that support [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Software corresponding structure</title>
		<link>http://www.ipeg.eu/?p=3042</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Nov 2011 08:08:12 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Irell & Manella]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In American patent law, claim elements drafted as means for performing a function – e.g., “means for adding two numbers” – read on the structure corresponding to that function disclosed in the specification “and equivalents thereof.”  35 USC § 112 para. 6.  “Structure disclosed in the specification is ‘corresponding’ structure only if the specification or [...]]]></description>
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