IPビジネスの先行き

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Ocean Tomo, LLC, announced on Tuesday that it has entered into a ten year relationship with ICAP(IAP.L), to further build the market forintellectual property based transactions. The agreement included the acquisitionof the Ocean Tomo transactions division by ICAP through a newly created companyto be called ICAP Ocean Tomo.

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Ocean Tomo has sold its famed but struggling patent auction business to British brokerage ICAP for $10 million, the companies announced Tuesday.
The sale of Ocean Tomo's transaction department, which includes the auction and patent brokerage, comes as revenue has plunged and key transaction leaders have left the company.

Ocean Tomoが主催した前回のIPオークションでは落札額がかなり減少していました。今の世界的な不景気の影響もありIPビジネスの先行きも不透明のようです。