Ocean Tomo CEO, Jim Malackowski, quoted in FOX Business article, Push For Big Patent Holdings Brews In Tech Sector
Excerpt: The Motorola deal is reflective of the value associated with a large collection of IT patents, which are becoming valued at premiums, said James Malackowski, chief executive of Ocean Tomo, the intellectual property services firm, that helped to value a portion of the Nortel portfolio. It's a case of 1 + 1 = 5.
Recently, courts have started to focus on royalty stacking and aggregation to determine awards in patent lawsuits, Malackowski said. This means that smaller portfolios aren't commanding the money they used to bring in these suits.
As the profit value of licensing out large tech patent holdings climbs, bigger portfolios are becoming highly sought by companies--whether they make the technology that these patents cover or not.
Because of this, tech companies will be making a big push for large purchases instead of small ones, industry players say, driving up the premiums big portfolios are valued at.
