Podcast: How Much Is Your Intellectual Property Worth?

Finding out can help determine a company’s value in a merger or acquisition.

All Three Podcasts Available Now!

In Part 1, Nerac’s intellectual property analyst and registered patent attorney Mr. Lloyd and Professor Hsu, a management professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, answer questions about the current legal environment and the kinds of issues companies confront in valuing patents.

In Part 2, they talk about the specifics of patent valuation and the risks companies assume when they acquire patent portfolios.

In Part 3, they answer questions about patent valuation for medical device companies, including industry-specific risks and what’s on the patent horizon.

Growth through Valuation and Acquisition of Intellectual Property in the Medical Device Industry

We invite you to download a complimentary white paper that investigates the dynamics of intellectual property and valuation for medical device manufacturers.

Marketplace Review

June 2008 Issue:

Think Negative
Wound Therapy Could Save Billions in Healthcare Costs

Treating the more than 2.8 million patients with chronic wounds costs billions of dollars per year, just in the United States, posing a continual challenge in medicine. One approach, negative pressure wound therapy, presents the medical device industry with an opportunity to meet that challenge. (more)

Keys to Offshore Outsourcing
Medical Device Makers Starting to Look for Overseas Partners

Like companies across many industries, medical device manufacturers are increasingly turning to international partnerships to find ways to exploit the efficiencies that outsourcing offers. These companies are finding that successful and efficient outsourcing allows them to allocate internal resources to projects more strategically and prioritize tasks in their product pipelines. (more)

Clothing + Sensors = Opportunity
Device Makers Should Look to Alliances for Next-Generation Personal Monitors

With consumers getting ever more involved with their own health, a new market is emerging in the patient monitoring industry. Not content to sit in a doctor’s office awaiting test results—or having to return weeks later to hear the outcome—people want immediate results with little inconvenience. Innovative biomedical companies are developing sensors so minute that they can be sewn into clothing―wearable patient monitoring, if you will. (more)

Small Can Be Large
Nanotechnology Is Gaining Momentum Towards Mainstream Acceptance

When it comes to nanotechnology, the market remains highly competitive and is dominated by smaller firms that lead the way in innovation and risk. But that scenario is projected to change as larger global corporations engage newly emerging markets by incorporating a “watch-and-wait approach,” letting smaller firms take the risks associated with R&D and market entry. The big players wait patiently for the winners to emerge, acquire the successful innovators, and reap the commercial benefits. (more)