Technology Deals: Case Studies For Officers, Directors, Investors, And General Counsels About Ipo's, Mergers, Acquisitions, Venture Capital, Licensing, Litigation, Sett

by Glazier, Stephen C.

• ISBN13: 9780966143751
• ISBN10: 0966143752
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-02-28
• Publisher: Lightning Source Inc

Table of Contents

Books by Stephen C. Glazier	ii
About the Author	ix
Preface	xi
What the Reviewers Are Saying About The Companion Volume	xv
To Obtain This Book	xvii
Acknowledgments	xix
A. Case Studies
1. Patent Due Diligence for Financing Technology Companies: Case Studies	1	(4)
2. Due Diligence as Industrial Espionage, or "My Best Ideas are Somebody Else's"	5	(4)
3. Stac v. Microsoft, or "Are These Guys Protected?"	9	(6)
4. Own It Before You Sell It	15	(4)
5. Buying the Defendant's Seat?	19	(6)
6. Patent What You Sell, Sell What You Patent	25	(4)
7. Buying and Selling (Intellectual) Property, Monetizing Intellectual Property	29	(6)
8. X-treme Rush Procedures for Patent Portfolio Development	35	(6)
9. Your Software Consultant or Your Competitor?	41	(6)
10. Web Page Deals, Finding the New Property in the New Economy	47	(8)
B. New Strategies for Technology Deals
11. The New Intellectual Property Strategy for Officers and Directors	55	(8)
12. Stock Price and the Measurement of Innovation and Branding, for Directors, Officers, and Investors	63	(14)
13. Patent Due Diligence for Technology Deals: How to Buy More for Less	77	(8)
C. Litigation: The First Shot
14. Responding to the New Demand Letters Alleging Infringement of Business Method and Software Patents	85	(12)
15. Portfolio Theory and Classes of Patent Holders: Responding to Patent Infringement Demand Letters	97	(8)
D. Software and the Internet
16. e-Patents for Internet and Banking Services: The Survey	105	(6)
17. Rules of Virtual Genius: Software and Internet Update	111	(12)
18. Four Stages of Patent Denial In the Software Industry	123	(6)
E. Patent Surveys: Mining the Gold
19. Intellectual Property Surveys: Start with the Business Plan	129	(8)
20. Intellectual Property Surveys: Special Steps	137	(10)
Appendix: Interesting Recent Cases	147	(6)
Index	153