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IP Investment Strategies

Audio Bootcamp for Identifying and Leveraging Under-Valued Intellectual Property Assets

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Date : Audio CD Available

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Hosted By : Beard Group Law and Business Publishers and the Intellectual Property Prospector

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Intellectual property has emerged as an important new source of opportunity for the investment community. Whether in the form of trademark rights, patent portfolios, proprietary trade secrets, or other contractual licenses and rights, businesses are increasingly relying on their intellectual property assets for competitive edge and investors have taken notice.

As investors understand how businesses develop and strategically manage their intellectual property assets, they have new information about how businesses maintain pricing power, barriers to entry, and market share. They also understand how mis-priced and underutilized intellectual property assets can present investment arbitrage opportunities.

Information resulting from intellectual property identification and analysis can be the basis of an investment decision, new investment idea, or creative financing structure, and a great deal of innovation relating to intellectual property is occurring in the investment industry.

Purchase this Audio CD (recorded in October 2007) and join David Ruder, Terrier IP Investments, LLC, as he provides investors with a framework to analyze intellectual property assets and to develop intellectual property-based investment strategies.

You'll cover:

Todays top trends, challenges and opportunities in IP investing
How and why potentially lucrative IP assets are often hidden
Proven ways to analyze a corporate IP portfolio for opportunities
Readily available information resources for identifying new investment ideas
Innovative IP investment strategies, including:
o Fundamental equity investing
o Opportunistic arbitrage (licensing and litigation)
o Securitization deals
o Public market investment products
Essentials of IP licensing agreements
Impact of recent Supreme Court rulings and potential patent reforms on investors
Insights for IP-rich companies seeking capital

Who Will Benefit:
Managers of private equity firms looking for ways to acquire and commercialize specific IP assets; hedge fund managers seeking to uncover new insights into publicly traded stocks; opportunistic entrepreneurs look for new ways to make money. IP attorneys will also benefit.

Speaker(s):

David S. Ruder
Terrier IP Investments, LLC

David S. Ruder has been working with intellectual property investment issues throughout his career as an investment banker, attorney, and intellectual property entrepreneur. In 2007 he established Terrier IP Investments, LLC, a private investment firm focused on intellectual property-based investments in firms backed by private equity and venture capital.

He began his career working as an investment banker on Wall Street, helping companies in the consumer and entertainment sectors raise capital or engage in M&A transactions. Based on early exposure to intellectual property issues, he went on to receive a JD/MBA from Northwestern University with concentrations in technology and intellectual property. He practiced law for a major national law firm, working on intellectual property transactions including patent licenses, software development agreements, and due diligence on private equity buyouts. David also performed IP due diligence for private equity clients who would purchase companies or assets with IP portfolios.

Upon seeing increased interest intellectual property from the investment community, he co-founded River West Brands LLC, where he pioneered a method for acquiring and licensing dormant consumer brand intellectual property. He completed transactions with several Fortune 500 companies in the consumer sector relating to the sale, licensing, and acquisition of brand intellectual property assets. Example transactions include the acquisition of the NUPRIN brand of ibuprofen from Bristol-Myers and the later sale of the brand to CVS Corporation; the acquisition of intellectual property relating to the COLECO video game brand; and the acquisition of the SOHO NATURAL SODA brand and its license to Arizona Beverage Co. While at River West, David formed a strategic alliance with Ocean Tomo, LLC, which was then a startup intellectual capital merchant bank. He helped form Ocean Tomos M&A advisory practice, which was focused on advising companies how to position their patent portfolios and other IP assets in the context of raising financing or forming joint ventures.

David is also a co-founder of Adaptive Alpha LLC, which is a research and development company focused on developing inventions and understanding risk in the asset management industry. Adaptive Alpha has authored several papers and has begun building a patent portfolio around its work. Most recently, David has been a consultant to Altitude Capital Partners, which is focused on investments in businesses with compelling intellectual property litigation portfolios.

IP Investment Strategies


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