IPRIA Seminar Series
Patent Aggregating Companies: Exploring the Phenomenon
A free public seminar in Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide, Melbourne and Perth proudly presented by IPRIA in association with the Institute of Patent and Trade Mark Attorneys of Australia (IPTA).
As part of a changing innovation paradigm from close innovation to open innovation, companies increasingly sell and buy patents. Beside corporate industrial buyers a new phenomenon is observable. In recent years, companies which seem to have none of the traditional buying motives have emerged as new significant players in the market for patents - patent aggregating companies. Frauke Ruether presents data that explains strategies and buying motives as well as a classification of eight patent aggregating companies. Four types acquire patents to generate revenues by exploiting the patents: patent acquisition funds, patent enforcement funds, patent incubating funds, and patent trading funds. The other four types acquire patents to serve their members, their customers or the society (commercially or not): defensive patent funds, non commercial patent funds, patent pools, and patent securitization funds.
PRESENTER:
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Ms Frauke Rüther is a visiting scholar at the Intellectual Property Research Institute of Australia (IPRIA, University of Melbourne) and research associate at the Institute of Technology Management (ITEM-HSG, University of St.Gallen, Switzerland). She has a Master of Arts in Economics from University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee (USA) and a Diploma (Master equivalent) in Business Administration from Justus-Liebig-University Giessen (Germany). Before joining the ITEM-HSG, Frauke worked for B.Metzler GmbH, the Corporate Finance division of Bankhaus Metzler, Frankfurt (Germany). Her main research interests are the external exploitation of patents and technology market intermediaries. Frauke's research aims to understand and solve managerial problems of leveraging patents. |
DATE: Wednesday 2 November 2011, 1pm - 2pm (Refreshments from 12:30pm)
VENUE: Davies Collison Cave, 255 Elizabeth Street, SYDNEY
COST: Free of charge
DATE: Thursday 3 November 2011, 1pm - 2pm (Refreshments from 12:30pm)
VENUE: Fisher Adams Kelly, Level 29, 12 Creek Street, BRISBANE
COST: Free of charge
DATE: Friday 11 November 2011, 1pm - 2pm (Refreshments from 12:30pm)
VENUE: Law Society of South Australia, Ground Floor, 124 Waymouth Street, ADELAIDE
COST: Free of charge
DATE: Friday 18 November 2011, 1pm - 2pm (Refreshments from 12:30pm)
VENUE: Davies Collison Cave, Level 15, 1 Nicholson Street, MELBOURNE
COST: Free of charge
DATE: Monday 21 November 2011, 1pm - 2pm (Refreshments from 12:30pm)
VENUE: Law Society of Western Australia, Level 4, 89 St Georges Terrace, PERTH
COST: Free of charge
Continuing Professional Development
Patent and Trade Mark Attorneys
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SEMINAR CONTACT: Michelle Wilson, IPRIA, Alan Gilbert Building, The University of Melbourne, VIC 3010
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