Date: Tue, 2012-02-14
CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA – February 9, 2012 – M·CAM Inc. has introduced Podcast on ITunes. The ITunes page includes various videos and conversations with Dr. David Martin and other M·CAM staff.
Follow link: http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/m-cam-inc.-podcast-feed/id502310398
Date: Fri, 2012-02-10
CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA – February 10, 2012 – M·CAM, Inc. released its Patently Obvious® report today on Facebook, Inc.
Following Facebook’s February 1, 2012 filing for an Initial Public Offering, the market is wondering if Facebook’s quest for public status will paint an even bigger patent litigation target on its back. Is Facebook’s $100 billion valuation protected? Facebook itself certainly doesn’t seem to think so. After all, over 65% of Facebook’s portfolio was originally issued to other entities (e.g., they were NOT the source of innovation). Even more troubling, in the past 18 months, Facebook’s patent filings have increased nearly 800% versus their ENTIRE cumulative 8-year history (over 410 US patent applications in the past 18 months versus 56 issued US patents). Given this massive effort to protect itself retroactively, will Facebook be looking for its own “Motorola Mobility” soon?
M·CAM’s Patently Obvious® is a weekly 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® report on Facebook, Inc. can be found HERE.
Date: Thu, 2012-02-09
CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA – February 9, 2012 – M·CAM Inc. has introduced Podcast and a Report Archive to their website. The Podcast page includes various videos and conversations with Dr. David Martin and other M·CAM staff. The Report Archive includes articles, speeches, and documents which will help people to understand various M·CAM initiatives and projects.
View the Podcasts HERE
View the Report Archive HERE
Date: Mon, 2012-02-06
CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA – February 6, 2012 Dr. David E. Martin’s discussion paper on “Proprietary Environments: Innovation Paradox and Policy”, commissioned by the UK Foresight Programme was recently published as part of a series of discussion papers around the International Dimensions of Climate Change. The article will be used as part of the background reading for the Tenth Management Development Programme on Harnessing Intellectual Property for Strategic Competitive and Collaborative Advantage this week in Ahmedabad, India.
The UK Foresight Programme is recognized as world leaders in futures thinking within the government. As part of the Department for Business Innovation and Skills, they aim to help government think systematically about the future. The Programme helps to improve how the people use science and technology within the government and society.
Date: Fri, 2012-02-03
CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA – February 3, 2012 – M·CAM, Inc. released its Patently Obvious® report today on RealNetworks, Inc.
RealNetworks, the company behind Real Player, recently agreed to sell about 190 patents and 170 pending patent applications to Intel Corp for $120 million. Intel announced it was getting “foundational media patents” in this acquisition, but should it have had a “real” look into the portfolio that it is acquiring before it agreed to purchase?
M·CAM’s Patently Obvious® is a weekly 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® report on RealNetworks can be found HERE.
Date: Fri, 2012-01-27
CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA – January 27, 2012 – M·CAM, Inc. released its Patently Obvious® report today on WiLAN v Research In Motion
WiLAN, a Canadian patent licensing, non-operating entity, has sued struggling Canadian Blackberry producer Research In Motion over patent infringement. Again. Is WiLAN trying to recover its losses from a failed hostile takeover of fellow patent licensor Mosaid? Or, are they trying to “bring value to industry and consumers” by asserting one patent that was passed along to at least four different owners before it was ever owned by WiLAN, and asserting another that claims rights to a keyboard?
M·CAM’s Patently Obvious® is a weekly 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® report on WiLAN v Research In Motion can be found HERE.
Date: Mon, 2012-01-23
CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA – January 23, 2012 – M·CAM, Inc. released its Patently Obvious® report today on Helferich Patent Licensing
Helferich has filed more patent infringement suits, using a patent that recently had 65 new claims added in a patent reexamination procedure in December 2011. Perhaps its time that the media use the power of the pen to shed more light on a system that continues to allow jobs-killing, anti-growth, anti-business behavior?
M·CAM’s Patently Obvious® is a weekly 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® report on Helferich Patent Licensing can be found HERE.
Date: Fri, 2012-01-13
CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA – January 13, 2012 – M·CAM, Inc. released its Patently Obvious® report today on Kodak v Apple and HTC
On January 10, 2011, in a last-ditch effort to stay afloat, Kodak filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Apple and HTC. In our September 2011 report on Kodak, we calculated that over one-third of its digital imaging patent portfolio was commercially impaired. While Kodak litigates against some companies, it has tried to sell the digital imaging portfolio to others. Are these viable ways to save Kodak from bankruptcy?
M·CAM’s Patently Obvious® is a weekly 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® report on Kodak v Apple and HTC can be found HERE.
Date: Thu, 2012-01-12
Motorola Mobility’s recent statement that it’s expected 4th quarter shortfall was due to “an increased competitive environment in the mobile device business and higher legal costs associated with ongoing intellectual property (IP) litigations” was clearly an attempt at damage control prior to the release of its quarterly report and came as no surprise to M·CAM. Last August shortly after Google announced their $12.5 billion MMI acquisition, M·CAM’s chairman David E. Martin appeared on Bloomberg West with Cory Johnson and explained that Google’s acquisition of MMI for it’s patents was “an immense mistake.” M·CAM highly doubts MMI’s outlook will improve, nor do we think that the MMI patent portfolio will prove to be the armor Google expects against would be plaintiffs including those that hold core pieces of mobile handset technology. The current market with its failed comprehension of patent commercial market consequence coupled with the defective patent system has lead to massive overpayments and panic-sticken purchasers (Google being one of them.)
M·CAM believes that in the current litigious environment, patent portfolio transactions should be entered into with complete visibility as to whether the portfolio will either protect the purchaser’s market position or open market opportunities. For example, Kodak has been attempting to sell a subset of its digital imaging patents to raise cash since July. “The market” has predicted that the portfolio could be worth as much as $3 billion. Now reports are surfacing that Kodak is preparing for bankruptcy reorganization. This is no surprise to M·CAM. We reported in our September 23rd 2011 Patently Obvious(TM) report that a significant portion of Kodak’s patent portfolio is impaired or lacks commercial value. Now with the whole of the patent portfolio at risk of liquidation M·CAM believes that buyers should be particularly dubious of over-inflated valuations made with a lack of visibility for patent quality and commercial fitness.
As the world’s leading intangible asset finance firm, M·CAM has long been in front of patent quality analysis associated with litigation risks along with providing competitive intelligence for business to identify effective pathways for the commercialization of their intellectual property (IP). M·CAM has developed an underwriting platform based on a set of proprietary, unstructured data-mining algorithms that allow us to measure and quantify the market consequence, commercial and obsolescence risk of intangible assets such as patents, trademarks, executory contracts, exploration licenses, development rights, licenses, long-term supply contracts and all other intangible assets. Further, M·CAM has assisted buyers to identify the most effective intellectual property (IP) to strengthen their portfolios, provide pathways to new markets and limit overpayment of impaired intangible assets. For example, during the liquidation of the Ampex patent portfolio, we assisted our client fund manager to make a right sized offer of $7 million for the entirety of the company’s impaired patent portfolio. As the Kodak digital portfolio is prepared for potential liquidation, M·CAM believes intelligent market participants should turn their diligence up to increase visibility to real market consequence.
Date: Thu, 2012-01-12
CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA – January 12, 2012 M·CAM Inc. Unveils New Integral Trade Brand
Integral Trade is a way of engagement based on the following values: Conflict and Oppression Free Engagement, Ecologically Sound Engagement, Shared Risk and Reward, Transparent Engagement and Productive Economic Purpose.
All Integral Trade extraction, processing, and production are conflict and oppression free and have obtained the consent of the persons who participate in the stewardship of their local resources and are free to choose their mode of engagement. Steps in the Integral Trade extraction, processing, production and logistics value chain must evidence ecologically sound practices transitioning to clean methods with equivalent direction given to the lifecycle of repurposing product components. Integral Trade capital structures must reflect an appropriate balance between risk and reward. Integral Trade participants must share in profit and loss of a transaction. Integral Trade transactions must have “material finality” in that they directly or indirectly are linked to real economic transactions. All Integral Trade transactions and value exchanges within the global community are to be disclosed to all participants involved in the transaction; allowing communities to assess their degree of participation. All end products, processes, and their applications must be actively shared with all participants in the supply chain, permitting those at the origination of resources to learn how to add value, thereby building a knowledge capacity for subsequent endeavors.
Learn more about Integral Trade HERE.
Date: Mon, 2012-01-09
CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA – January 9, 2012 – M·CAM, Inc. unveils new plans for Patently Obvious® and releases its Patently Obvious® report on Sprint Nextel Corp.
With the start of the new year, M·CAM’s Patently Obvious® reports take on a new dimension. Each week of the month our reports will focus on one of three themes: (1) egregious patent prosecutorial behavior – including an in-depth critique of U.S. Patent Office patent examiners and their international counterparts; (2) hot off the press pronouncements of patent value that may or may not reflect reality; or (3) the anti-job, anti-business abuses of non-operating entities (aka trolls) that rob operating businesses of earned income and undermine the value of legitimate innovation harming our nation’s economy.
Following this format, this week we are focusing on the December 19 suits Sprint Nextel filed against Time Warner, Comcast and others for infringing their VoIP patents. In light of Sprint’s previous win against Vonage, we’d like to point out some deeper issues that Vonage failed to pursue, and suggest that the new defendants focus on fundamental ways in which the patent system allows this kind of litigious madness in the first place.
M·CAM’s Patently Obvious® is a weekly 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® report on Sprint Nextel Corp. can be found HERE.
Date: Wed, 2012-01-04
January 4, 2012 – Rabaul, East New Britian, Paupa New Guinea; Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia; Napo, Ecuador and Charlottesville, Virginia — M·CAM Releases 2011 Heritable Innovation Trust Document. The 2011 document is organized in an encyclopedia format, to compile all of the information collected over the past three years into one integrated document.
By organizing the document in this manner, we have been able to draw connections between communities separated by thousands of miles of water and land, truly allowing all participating communities to be an integral part of a global knowledge sharing network.
This year’s efforts could not have been completed with out the contributions of our interns,Antonia Berki, Roger Lynn Bohon, Rodriques Lamar Jackson, Riley Scott Little, Sharadha Ramakrishnan, members of the M·CAM team specifically Denise Holman, David Martin, Kenneth Dabkowski, and Katie Martin, our on-site partners Theresa Arek, Nergui Dorj, Sharmayne Ryan, and Ian Sexton, as well as the welcoming family of B. Erdenebaatar and S. Budkhand in Mongolia and the entire community of Ngavalus in New Ireland, Papua New Guinea.
For more on the Heritable Innovation Trust, visit www.heritableinnovationtrust.org
View the 2011 Heritable Innovation Trust Document HERE
Date: Wed, 2011-12-28
M·CAM Inc. released the 3rd volume of “The Navigare” today – the last volume of 2011! This volume highlights our most recent involvement in Papua New Guinea, M·CAM’s response to the Occupy Wall Street Movement, an Integral Accounting Audit in Nepal, and a reader’s challenge (to name a few)! To read more about this quarter at M·CAM, check out the PDF version or you can view it directly by clicking HERE
Date: Tue, 2011-12-27
M·CAM’s partnership in Nepal has shared with us the Foundation’s 2011 Progress Report. 2011 included biodynamic activities, the completion of construction on the community library, and work with the University of Virginia. You can view the report HERE
Date: Fri, 2011-12-23
CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA – December 23, 2011 – M·CAM, Inc. released its Patently Obvious® report today on British Telecommunications v. Google.
Every so often, British Telecommunications initiates patent litigation that can have eccentric, almost wistful elements. BT engaged in that behavior back in 2000 when the telecommunications conglomerate claimed ownership of the hyperlink. This time, they are staking a claim to mobile GPS. Let’s see if the proof is in the Christmas pudding.
M·CAM’s Patently Obvious® is a weekly 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® report on British Telecommunications v. Google can be found HERE.
Date: Fri, 2011-12-16
CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA – December 16, 2011 – M·CAM, Inc. released its Patently Obvious® report today on PersonalWeb Technologies
On December 8, 2011, hidden within the buzz surrounding the Great Android War and the upcoming vote on the SOPA bill, PersonalWeb Technologies (run by, among others, Michael Weiss and Kevin Bermeister, the founders of Morpheus and Kazaa, respectively) quietly filed patent infringement suits in the Eastern District of Texas against Google, Youtube, Amazon and others. Are Weiss and Bermeister really the “reformed pirates” everyone’s claiming them to be, or is it all just a ruse to hide a real Nightmare Before Christmas?
M·CAM’s Patently Obvious® is a weekly 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® report on PersonalWeb Technologies can be found HERE.
Date: Thu, 2011-12-08
CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA – December 8, 2011 – M·CAM, Inc. released its Patently Obvious® report today on Apple, Inc. Patent-Related Rulings
Apple has conveniently decided to pop back into the news – and just in time for the holidays – with the recent Apple v Samsung ruling and the upcoming Dec. 14th International Trade Commission determination. Join us for our End of Season Apple Sale where we analyze Apple’s claims to fingers and all things rectangular (”¦ they don’t specify human fingers, so don’t think that trolls and elves can go around willy-nilly just using their fingers either).
M·CAM’s Patently Obvious® is a weekly 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® report on Apple, Inc. Patent-Related Rulings can be found HERE.
Date: Sun, 2011-12-04
Recently, The Global Innovation Commons has been featured on Worldwide Tipping Point & Community Currency.
Worldwide Tipping Point, written by Todd Goldfarb, was created looking for a quantifiable measure for the global awakening. Through interviewing various types of people ranging from anthropologists to business gurus Goldfarb looks to “help make sense of this unique period of time we are living”.
Worldwide Tipping Point interviewed The Global Innovation Commons’ creator and featured contributor, Dr. David Martin. Goldfarb describes The Global Innovation Commons as “changing the world from the bottom up”.
Listen to the entire interview, HERE.
The most recent feature comes from Community Currency. Community Currency, is written by Carol Brouillet, the co-founder of the International Media Project, which produces Making Contact, a half-hour radio program “committed to investigative journalism, in-depth critical analysis, the promotion of civic participation and the dissemination of educational material”. Her blog looks at the differences between money and real wealth in an attempt to take a “step towards a new system which serves human needs”.
Brouillet’s interview of Dr. David Martin, on The Global Innovation Commons was aired on Thursday December 1st at 2:00pm EST. You can find the article about her upcoming interview, HERE.
Date: Wed, 2011-11-30
CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA – November 30, 2011 – M·CAM, Inc. released its Patently Obvious® report today on Universal Display Corp.
With Thanksgiving feasts fully digested, fueling the shopping frenzy of Black Friday and Cyber Monday, we are thankfully lighter of over $50 billion in unwanted cash that was weighing us down. And here at M·CAM, we’re in the process of donning our kerchiefs, caps and settling into the languorous, hot-chocolate aided stupor that precedes the last holiday rush of the year. Time to crack open a nostalgic tale of Dickens’ Christmas Carol”¦.
But wait, this isn’t the Christmas Carol! No, it’s Oliver Twist.
M·CAM’s Patently Obvious® is a weekly 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® report on Universal Display Corp. can be found HERE.
Date: Mon, 11/21/2011
CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA – November 21, 2011 – M·CAM, Inc. released its Patently Obvious® report today on Patent Trolls and Big Media
The technology sector has been good to patent trolls, and this shows no sign of letting up. Recently, trolls have been testing their success in a new sector: media. Is this a wise move? What happens when they get the attention of CBS, The New York Times, Gannett, and Bloomberg?
M·CAM’s Patently Obvious® is a weekly 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® report on Patent Trolls and Big Media can be found HERE.