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, who describes the company's mission: "At Ocean Tomo, our focus is on Intellectual Capital Equity management broadly defined. We target value creation and measurement at the intersection of intellectual property and private equity finance."[1]

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[edit] Auctions

Ocean Tomo has recently introduced the world's first public auctions of patents, trademarks and copyrights.[2] The auctions have also included business method patents,[3] 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". [4]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Ocean Tomo (HTML). Retrieved on 2008-04-15.
  2. ^ Ocean Tomo IP Auctions
  3. ^ "Going Going Gone" Insurance IP Bulletin October 15, 2006
  4. ^ Ocean Tomo 300(tm) Patent Index

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