Technology Transfer
Our professionals leverage services offered by our other practice areas including the Valuation Group to develop recommendations that best solve our clients’ issues.
Services offered by the IP Asset Sales group are:
- Public Auctions
- Private IP Sales
- The Dean's List™ Online IP Exchange
IP Auctions
The IP public auctions practice specializes in delivering an alternative option for closing IP and technology-based transactions, while utilizing IP Analytics and Valuation skill sets, as well as the proprietary PatentRatings® system. These Auctions have received global recognition as the leader in the live auctioning of IP assets, with over $30M in transactions in 2006 for some of the world’s largest and most established companies. The live auctions are held in the spring and fall in the U.S. and in the summer in Europe. The IP Private Sales Practice offers the greatest control for the monetization of IP assets and technology platforms.
Private Sales Group
Ocean Tomo's Private Sales practice offers premium service to clients when transacting IP. This process allows the seller to work directly with Ocean Tomo and control the overall outcome of the transaction. Due to complexity of the IP or transaction requirements certain clients prefer taking IP to market via this platform in comparison to other Ocean Tomo services.
The Dean’s List™ Online IP Exchange
Provides the premier online IP marketplace (www.thedeanslist.com) offering targeted opportunities to both IP sellers and buyers. The web-based classified forum leverages the success of our live auctions and IP sales efforts to facilitate transactions between sellers and buyers and licensees from around the globe. The mission of The Dean's List is to expand the array of options for IP sellers and buyers/licensees and to create a liquid market for these historically illiquid assets.
Representative Transactions
Ocean Tomo has extensive experience in a variety of situations. Listed below are some of the many projects the IP transaction team has completed and a description of the transaction. Most assignments are maintained as confidential by the parties involved and are therefore not listed below.
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Ocean Tomo represented Commerce One, a bankrupt software and web services company, in a 363 sale process of Web Services patents and software businesses and, utilizing a structured license agreement, generated $15.5mm in incremental value from the patent portfolio increasing the overall value of the transaction to $19.6M. |
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Ocean Tomo represented bankrupt companies Breuners Home Furnishings, Huffman Koos, Wayside and Goods Furniture to inventory and conduct an orderly liquidation of intangible assets, including trademarks and service marks, trade secrets, proprietary software systems, third party software licenses, and digital content. |
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Ocean Tomo represented Limited Brands, Inc., in the sale of the Structure® trademark to Sears Roebuck and Co. for use as an exclusive, in-house clothing brand. |
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Ocean Tomo represented Genex Technologies, Inc., in the sale of its three-dimensional, imaging technology to Markland Technologies, Inc., a German strategic buyer who recognized the value inherent in the seller’s intellectual property. |
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Dormant Dot Com Company
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Ocean Tomo represented this company in a confidential sale of three issued/pending patents covering ISP-to-ISP data migration, its only saleable assets, to an acquirer with a complementary intellectual property portfolio. |
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