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RPX Issues Second Quarter Results And Comments On The ‘Patent Bubble’
Patent aggregator RPX recently released its second quarter results which kept pace with its previous report, posting $38.8 MM as compared with $34 MM in the first quarter. Total equity has increased to...
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Patent Owners ‘Fleeing’ RPX Acquisition Model
Patent owners, including several currently relying on litigation, are “fleeing” RPX in favor of ICAP’s new Covenant Not to Sue (“CNS”) program, according to a source working closely with the brokerage...
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RPX Secondary Offering Seeks Another $60M
RPX Corporation (RPXC) announced pricing of a 3,000,000 share follow-on offering at $20.49 per share. RPX offers about 1.4 M shares itself with the rest coming from stockholders. The offering price...
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ICAP Continues To Struggle For Live Patent Auction Relevance
ICAP concluded its most recent live patent auction last week with underwhelming results. The auction featured more than 190 total lots, but the vast majority were offered only through ‘sealed’ bids....
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RPX’s View Of ‘Rational’ Patent Pricing
RPX published its third quarter results earlier this month, and provided a sneak-peak look into its patent pricing model. Specifically, CEO John Amester reiterated his statement from the second...
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Renewed Interest In Patent Investment Affects RPX Valuation
Joff Wild over at the IAM Blog recently reported an upgrade in RPX’s rating from Barclays Capital from 2-EW to 1-OW, citing “secular sustainable growth” of the IP sector. Barclays’ briefing paper...
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Return Of The Bubble: Patent Sellers Put Acacia Back On Their Christmas Card...
When patent aggregator RPX debuted with more than a billion dollar valuation, they warned us a bubble was coming. When Rockstar Bidco paid $4.5 B to acquire an aging Nortel portfolio, and Google paid...
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Patent Monetization – What, Who and How
I’m on the road this morning, and will be giving a lecture tomorrow on the basics of Patent Monetization to the Toledo Intellectual Property Law Association Spring Seminar. I’d like to publicly thank...
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Digitude Patent Monetization Effort Bombs – RPX Picks Up The Carcass
RPX announced “its largest syndicated transaction to date with the participation of more than 10 RPX clients.” According to the release, “RPX will invest approximately $46 million of its own capital...
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Spring Cleaning Time At Patent Monetization Firms
Spring brought us news of several patent monetization firms cleaning house, sometimes entirely, which is the case of Altitude Capital and the deal it struck between wholly owned Digitude and RPX....
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