Date: Wed, 2014-09-03
Though firms such as Nomura estimate that Microsoft charges high licensing fees from Android manufacturers for access to its Android portfolio, M·CAM finds that only 21% of Microsoft’s 310 Android patents are commercially viable. Read the full report here.
Date: Mon, 2014-08-25
M·CAM’s David Martin discusses the enterprises of emanation, the framework for a new type of conversation about human endeavors, on the Debut Podcast of 2:23am A Call to Uncommon Action.
Listen to the 2:23am Podcast: HERE
Date: Tue, 2014-08-19
In a continuation of M-CAM’s longstanding commitment to bringing transparency and equivalent access to the capital markets, M-CAM is partnering with PRO2CEO in discussing capital market access with some of the country’s most influential personalities and influencers. Hosted by NYSE CEO Duncan L. Niederauer, the S3SUMMIT is highlighting keys to Sustaining Success using life lessons from athletes, entertainers, and entrepreneurs.
Date: Fri, 2014-08-01
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA July 31,2014 — David Martin, founder and chairman of M·CAM, discusses the implications of the “Alice Corp. vs. CLS” Supreme Court ruling in the Apple Samsung wars and the future of smartphone technology. He speaks with Emily Chang on Bloomberg Television’s “Bloomberg West.”
Date: Wed, 2014-07-30
CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA July 30, 2014- M·CAM released its Patently Obvious® on Microsoft’s Cross-License with Nokia
The degree to which Microsoft’s global cross-license with Nokia could impair Nokia’s entire patent portfolio is not clear in public statements made by the firms or accounts of regulators’ competitiveness reviews. Nearly 20% of Microsoft’s patent portfolio either coincides with or is subsequent to Nokia’s patents on similar technologies. This may present a material consideration for investors in both Microsoft and Nokia. Given recent events in China, the cumulative effect could, at best, be a decreased enterprise and equity value for both firms. At worst, it could expose both companies to risks from the third parties who hold competitive alternative patents or potentially invalidating prior art.
M·CAM’s Patently Obvious® is a report providing visibility into potentially unconsidered alternatives, including art in the public domain, to patent holdings across a variety of technology areas.
M·CAM is a global, full-service intellectual property and rights (IP&R) and intangible asset financial services firm. We provide the technical and financial systems that allow public and private markets to use IP&R and IA for regulated transactions in banking, securities, insurance, and public innovation investment and technology procurement. From our pioneering work in creating the world’s first standards-based innovation collateralization financial products for banking and securities to our work in grassroots innovator enablement and patent quality assurance programs, M·CAM provides the mechanism to balance the interests of public and commercial sectors to support and build thriving economies.
The M·CAM Patently Obvious® on Microsoft’s Cross-License with Nokia can be found HERE.
Date: Wed, 2014-07-23
M·CAM has been featured in a Barclays report written by The Economist Intelligence Unit entitled, “Start me up: Creating Britain’s entrepreneurial ecosystem.”
“Will Hutton, Principal of Hertford College, Oxford University, and Chair of the Big Innovation Centre, explains: “One of the interesting developments in the US has been M-CAM, a company that underwrites the value of intellectual property, against which banks can lend. This gives inventors and entrepreneurs some profit but also gives bankers some comfort that even though nothing has been commercialised, there is an idea behind the potential commercial venture that has some intrinsic value.”
Please view the full report: HERE
Date: Fri, 2014-07-18
SINGAPORE – From August 25-27, 2014, M·CAM will be participating in Singapore IPOS’ IP week held at Level 3 of the Marina Bay Sands Expo and Convention Centre.
“With an overarching theme of “IP @ The Marketplace”, the IP Ecosystem Fair provides a vibrant platform that showcases the ‘Best of Class’ amongst leading IP intermediaries and service providers from the five pillars of the IP Competency Framework (IPCF). Featuring and facilitating networking of IP professionals, the Fair would also raise the awareness of IP issues.”
See other participants and learn more: HERE
Date: Thu, 2014-07-10
CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA July 10, 2014- M·CAM released its Patently Obvious® on Microsoft’s Android License
Since 2010, Microsoft has licensed a patent portfolio to device makers who use Android, the open source platform in many mobile devices. Industry experts estimate that Microsoft is generating $1 to $2 billion annually from this licensing program and speculation has abounded as to which patents are included in this portfolio. In a surprise twist, the Chinese Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) disclosed two lists of patents that detail which Microsoft claims are implemented in Android.
M·CAM’s Patently Obvious® is a report providing visibility into potentially unconsidered alternatives, including art in the public domain, to patent holdings across a variety of technology areas.
M·CAM is a global, full-service intellectual property and rights (IP&R) and intangible asset financial services firm. We provide the technical and financial systems that allow public and private markets to use IP&R and IA for regulated transactions in banking, securities, insurance, and public innovation investment and technology procurement. From our pioneering work in creating the world’s first standards-based innovation collateralization financial products for banking and securities to our work in grassroots innovator enablement and patent quality assurance programs, M·CAM provides the mechanism to balance the interests of public and commercial sectors to support and build thriving economies.
The M·CAM Patently Obvious® Microsoft’s Android License can be found HERE.
Date: Sun, 2014-06-29
ALEXANDRIA, VA – On Saturday, June 29th, M·CAM participated in the Great American Music Project (GRAMP) launch event. Cody Brooks was a featured music performer with Gabriel Kelley, Victoria Ghost and Tim O’Brien. The GRAMP is a platform initiated by Chris Bickford and Christian Nagle to showcase the best in American roots music, from Blues and Bluegrass to Southern Soul and more. Dr. David Martin of M·CAM was recognized for his involvement in organizing this initiative.
GRAMP Background:
“Give us your tired, your poor, your battered fiddles and secondhand trombones, your Old World instruments yearning to be reinvented, and we will make music the likes of which the world has never known. From Ragtime to Rock and Roll, from Bluegrass to Blue-eyed Soul, from Rhythm and Blues to Cajun and Tejano, no country has ever spawned such a dizzying variety of musical forms as has the United States. Born out of adversity, bred on ingenuity and cultural collision, fueled by rapid technological innovation and tumultuous social change, American Music* has inspired envy and emulation the world over since the dawn of the twentieth century. More than our cuisine, more than our art, more than our fashion or our architecture, it is our music that most defines our culture; and our musical heritage, rooted in the geography of swamps, deltas, hollers, deserts, rivers, beaches, and great iron cities, is perhaps our greatest collective treasure: an auditory highway that can lead any who are up for the journey deep into the fertile and sometimes fetid soul of the American imagination.”
Follow GRAMP: HERE
Date: Sat, 2014-06-14
SAN FRANCISCO – On Sunday, June 14th, M·CAM’s Dr.David Martin and Sarhank Group Chairman Moustapha Sarhank spoke at the TechWadi Forum in San Francisco, California. The program was entitled, “Local to Global: Scaling Internationally Through Joint Ventures,” where they laid out a road map for scaling in the media, IT and knowledge industries.
In it’s fifth year, TechWadi brought together Middle East and North Africa (MENA) entrepreneurs, capital sources, and thought leaders. As described:
“The entrepreneurship ecosystem in the Middle East has evolved beautifully in the last five years; so has the quality and impact of startups and entrepreneurs. Last year in particular was seminal. Incubators and accelerators tripled capacity, venture capital and angel funds quadrupled, and funds raised by high impact entrepreneurs exceeded $500 million – or 2.5 times the total pool of capital in 2012!”
Please learn more about the event: HERE
Date: Fri, 2014-05-23
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA — David Martin, founder and chairman of M-CAM, reacts to the Senate killing the patent reform bill. He speaks with Cory Johnson on Bloomberg Television’s “Bloomberg West.”
Date: Mon, 2014-05-12
CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA May 12, 2013 – M·CAM, Inc. released its Patently Obvious® Express on the Beats Acquisition
No one is asking if Beats has the actual assets to be in the streaming music business, or even the audio software business. Is this valuation purely an overpriced speculation? Is the addition of Beats’ intellectual property portfolio actually accretive to Apple’s quest for a major play in the streaming music subscriber market? Or is the acquisition a move to hire Jimmy Iovine and Dr. Dre?
M·CAM’s Patently Obvious® is a report providing visibility into potentially unconsidered alternatives, including art in the public domain, to patent holdings across a variety of technology areas.
M·CAM, Inc. is a global, full-service intellectual property and rights (IP&R) and intangible asset financial services firm. We provide the technical and financial systems that allow public and private markets to use IP&R and IA for regulated transactions in banking, securities, insurance, and public innovation investment and technology procurement. From our pioneering work in creating the world’s first standards-based innovation collateralization financial products for banking and securities to our work in grassroots innovator enablement and patent quality assurance programs, M·CAM provides the mechanism to balance the interests of public and commercial sectors to support and build thriving economies.
The M·CAM Patently Obvious® Express on the Beats Acquisition can be found HERE.
Date: Wed, 2014-05-07
PAPUA NEW GUINEA – Exerpt from The National:
“Attorney General Kerenga Kua says there will be revolutionary changes to mining and petroleum laws to ensure that maximum benefits flow to landowners and the people of Papua New Guinea. He told Parliament yesterday, in a no-holds barred reply to a question from Kabwum MP Bob Dadae, that the people of this country had been taken for a ride for too long by resource developers and things must change…”
Read the entire story in The National: HERE
Date: Mon, 2014-05-05
LONDON, ENGLAND – Jennifer Rankin and Birgitte Andersen at The Guardian did a great job covering M·CAM and the work currently being undertaken in the UK.
Read the full story, “M·CAM, the knowledge underwriter – how to value intangible assets”: HERE
Read the full story, “Why Britain needs an innovation bank”: HERE
Date: Sat, 2014-05-03
From NPR –
“Yesterday a jury handed down a mixed verdict in a patent dispute between Samsung and Apple. Both sides were found to have violated each other’s patents, however Apple received most of the damages – over $119 million.”
“DAVID MARTIN: There’s obviously a significant delta between what the jury figured out and what Apple thought it had figured out.”
Read the full story: HERE
Date: Fri, 2014-05-02
NPR Reports, “A California jury is deliberating a major lawsuit between tech titans Apple and Samsung. Apple is suing Samsung for patent infringement and asking for a whopping $2 billion in damages. But even if Apple prevails in this case, later this year the Supreme Court could undermine the victory by calling Apple’s patents and thousands of others into question.”
M·CAM’s Dr. David Martin was interviewed for the story:
“There have been countless ways in which that has been done ”” not only over the last several decades, but quite frankly the idea of settling up accounts and confirming order and fulfillment is actually something that’s been done probably as long as humans have traded,” he says. What is significant about this case, Martin says, is that there are thousands of patents like this ”” someone has an old idea and says he has a way to do it on a computer or over the Internet. Martin says many small tech companies were encouraged by investors to patent as much as they could. “Somehow or another more patents means you’re going to be of greater value to the ultimate acquirer, be it Twitter or Facebook or Google or Apple or whoever else,” Martin says.”
Read the full article: HERE
