Latest Ocean Tomo auction figures released

Yesterday Ocean Tomo announced the results of its 30 October Fall 2008 Live IP Auction. Cumulative sales, including buyer’s premium, totalled $12,842,500. Of particular note are the following:

* 11 NASA-owned patent assets relating to the Hilbert-Huang transform (HHT) signal processing technology fetched $55,000 plus an ongoing royalty stream.

* Carlson Wireless Technologies secured more than US$1 million from the aggregated sales of two lots.

The linked document also includes a lot-by-lot chart that shows how well the various intellectual properties did. The lowest lots were knocked down for US$11,000.

Next live IP auction coming up

The Ocean Tomo Fall 2008 Live IP Auction & Conference will be held on October 29-30 in Chicago. According to the company's email, the event includes a one and a half day CLE approved conference at the Trump Hotel, a gala dinner at The Art Institute and a Live IP Auction at the Chicago Cultural Center.

Ocean Tomo expects some 500 IP and business professionals to attend, including Fortune 500 IP and licensing professionals, C-level executives from small and mid-size companies, investors, individual inventors, attorneys and members of the press. The three concurrent conference programme tracks include

* Managing IP Risk
* Buying & Selling IP
* Maximizing IP Value for Business Professionals

The full programme can be viewed here. For various reasons, most of them connected to the facts that (i) I have to earn a living, (ii) I'm neither buying nor selling any IP and (iii) no-one invited me to speak, I won't actually be there. But if any readers of this weblog are going to be there and would like their brief reflections on the event to be recorded here for posterity, can they please email me here and let me know.

Forthcoming IP auction

The Ocean Tomo Fall Auction & Conference is to he held on 29 and 30 October at the Trump International Hotel and Chicago Cultural Center, USA. This is described as

"a full two-day event that includes a 1 1/2-day conference on cutting-edge IP issues, including "Managing IP Risk", "Buying and Selling IP", and “IP Finance” followed by the Live IP Auction ..."

If any reader of this weblog is likely to be attending the auction and would be interested in writing up a short report for us, can he or she please email me here and let me know? Further details of the event are available from Wendy Chou at 312.377.4862 or by email here.

IP Business Congress 2008

On 25 and 26 June 2008 an IP Business Congress, organised by Intellectual Asset Management magazine, takes place in the Grand Hotel Krasnapolsky, Amsterdam (the Netherlands). The programme features what the organisers call "the first-ever Chief Intellectual Property Officer (CIPO) Summit". The event culminates with a live IP auction conducted by Ocean Tomo in which intangible assets worth many millions of euros will be up for sale.

The plenary sessions in the CIPO summit deal with (i) building the CIPO role, (ii) the regulatory environment, (iii) a "meet the CIPOs" session and (iv) Into the future.

There is a registration fee of 1,500 euro for this event--but readers of the IP Finance and IPKat weblogs are entitled to a 15% discount: just quote the code IPK08 on the booking form or when phoning to book a place.

For further information regarding this event click here
Programme details are available here
The speaker list is available here