Ocean Tomo LLC
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Ocean Tomo is a merchant bank that specializes in intellectual property transactions, such as financing the sale and licensing of patent rights. Their home office is in Chicago, IL, USA. Their current CEO is James E. Malackowski.
[edit] Auctions
Ocean Tomo has recently introduced the world's first public auctions of patents, trademarks and copyrights. [1] The auctions have also included business method patents [2], and the rights to Jimi Hendrix's music recordings.
[edit] Intellectual property stock index
Ocean Tomo has also pioneered the first stock index based in large part on corporations whose overall market value is in large part due to the value of their patent portfolios. The index is called the "Ocean Tomo 300™ Patent Index". [3]