Patent broker Ocean Tomo’s Board of Advisors Vice Chairman Dean Becker is using a failed inter partes review (IPR) challenge of a patent owned by Societa Italiana Per Lo Sviluppo dell’Elettronica S.p.A. (SISVEL), filed by Unified Patents as evidence of the validity and value of a patent he is trying to sell. The former chairman [...]
Spherix Inc. (SPEX), the patent licensing company that turned over its enforcement actions to Dean Becker’s Equitable IP Holding Corp., said it has teamed up with Equitable IP to acquire an economic interest in a new patent portfolio that is largely unlicensed to any third party. Bethesda, Maryland-based Spherix was typically vague about the acquisition, [...]
Yahoo! Inc. (YHOO), which agreed to sell its internet business to Verizon Communications for a revised $4.48 billion, put a value of $740 million on its non-core patent portfolio, which it has been trying to sell in an auction for nine months. In a revised preliminary proxy statement filed March 13, Yahoo! said "all of [...]
SourceProse Corp. a developer of software used in geographical mapping of flood zones, alleges RPX Corp. (RPXC) improperly shared the terms of a purported $3 million patent purchase agreement between the two companies with Google Inc., in violation of a non-disclosure agreement, effectively killing a deal that ended SourceProse's patent enforcement litigation against a number [...]
Patent broker Tangible IP, run by CEO Louis Carbonneau, sold a portfolio of audio and video content search patents owned by Robert Davidson, an inventor and technology consultant at Affinity Sports Inc. in Philadelphia, to an unnamed buyer for an undisclosed amount. Seattle-based Tangible IP said Davidson designed a way to search through content from [...]
