The insolvent Nortel Networks Corp. has a very valuable patent portfolio. But because so many suiters may be in the market to purchase the portfolio, the question has become how valuable? Bloomberg ran a report about the portfolio, speculating that it may go for as much as $1.1B. Joff Wild at the IAM blog has a good post on the validity of this figure, as well as an interesting comment from Andrew Watson of ipVA regarding possible interested parties. This will be an interesting development to watch.
Ian McClure is a former corporate & securities and intellectual property law attorney with 
Trevor M. Blum is a former Associate in the Chicago-based, valuation practice group of Ocean Tomo, LLC., an intellectual property (IP) consultancy. Additionally, he provided instrumental research support to Intellectual Property Exchange International, Inc., an IP exchange start-up. Trevor holds a B.S. from Indiana University and is currently an MBA candidate at the University of Cambridge, focusing on international business and finance. His interests also include entrepreneurship, economics, and informational visualization. He enjoys running and cycling in his free time. Trevor seeks to bring a transnational business perspective to the blog. 
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Andrew Watson
Ian. Thanks for the profile. Actually I think I got it a bit if not a lot wrong. There is one perfect acquirer. Watch our blog.
Its also worth checking this news item out today.
http://www.tangible-ip.com/2010/i-love-professor-joseph-hadzima-jr-well-i-sort-of-half-love-him.htm
May 28th, 2010
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