Introducing the first Intellectual Property Auction of its kind in Europe, IP Investment & Live Auction 2007 provides the right platform for intellectual asset managers and IP professionals:

Debate the latest trends with IP and Finance experts at the highest level:
• Why invest in intellectual property assets?
• What are the practical tools and returns based upon real-world experiences?
Uncover new practices for investment
• Valuation & control: from traditional audit to IP due diligence
• The innermost secrets of significant transactions
Acquire strong ideas and distinct competitive advantage
• Bid for the technologies that best complement your existing portfolios
• Give a boost on your strategic intellectual property assets
Hear actionable answers to these questions and more from the most prominent IP rights owners


I. IP Audit: Leverage your Existing & Potential Strengths

II. IP Valuation: Deliver the Great Underlying Potential

III. IP Transactions: Learn Best Practices for Winning Strategies

IV. The Future of IP Investment: Be Prepared

V. Intellectual Property Auction: Going, Going, Gone IP



Auction Categories
Patents
  • Consumer Products
  • Convergence Technology
  • Digital Media & Entertainment
  • Financial Services & e-Commerce
  • Imaging & Display Technology
  • Internet/Web Services
  • Location-Based Technology
  • Medical & Life Sciences
  • Software & Business Methods
  • Telecommunications
    • Other IP
  • Consumer Brands
  • Copyrights & Music Catalogues


    • With the following topics:
  • Measure/evaluate: the state of play of IP rights in the extended enterprise
  • Know registered and potential IP assets owned by you and relatives
  • Legal protections to provide guidance for a winning strategy
  • Liability assessment: what risks should you consider?
  • The scope of risks: personnel, potential litigation/opposition and obligations
  • Identify the outstanding invention v. just another innovation
  • Licensing deals: getting the most of your patent portfolio
  • IP securitization: rapidly anticipating fashions and technological changes
  • Tackle diversified assets with controlled benefits
  • How to maximize the value of intellectual property
  • IP due diligence: widening the scope of potential risks
  • Capitalise on primary business in divesting non-strategic assets
  • Cross-licensing, patent pools, consortia & technological joint-ventures
  • Case studies of complex M&A transactions


    • Practical information
    Send me a copy of the conference programme when available
    Send me a copy of the Auction Catalogue when available
    Contact me regarding auction participation as a buyer or seller
    Contact me for being a corporate or finance speaker

    Contact information
    ipla@premiercercle.com
    Tel: +33 1 45 26 47 12
    Fax: +33 1 45 26 47 14