M·CAM, Inc. releases Patently Obvious® on iBio, Inc.

Date:  Fri, 2012-03-09

CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA – March 9, 2012 – M·CAM, Inc. released its Patently Obvious® report today on iBio, Inc.

On February 29, 2012, iBio, Inc., a pharmaceutical company, announced the issuance of a patent on an influenza virus vaccine. As a result, iBio’s stock increased over 10% during a time when the overall market was declining – proving, yet again, that intangible assets influence marginal value (or at least investor emotion and sentiment). This announcement and subsequent rise in iBio’s stock value is particularly interesting considering Fraunhofer USA, Inc. was, at least at the time, listed as the patent’s inventor and assignee.

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 iBio, Inc. can be found HERE.

M·CAM, Inc. Founder Invited To The 6th Biennial Grassroots Innovation Award Banquet

Date:  Tue, 2012-03-06

CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA & NEW DELHI, INDIA – March 6, 2012 – Founder and Chairman, Dr. David Martin, was invited by Dr. R.A. Mashelkar, Chairman of the National Innovation Foundation (NIF), to attend the sixth biennial Grassroots Innovation Award function being held at Rahstrapati Bhavan on March 9, 2012. The event is a very special occasion for the grassroots innovators and the outstanding traditional knowledge holders as they will be honored by the Honorable President of India. During the event, President Pratibha Devisingh Patil Ji will also inaugurate an innovation exhibition which will continue through March 15th. There will be a section of the event called the “Mind to Market Journey” which will showcase the new innovations and products which are almost out or already launched in the Indian market. The Honorable President will also be releasing a book “India Innovates” which will pool together some of the awarded technologies.

Following the event, NIF will be issuing three challenges for inviting innovative solutions for problems involved in manual paddy transplantation, plucking of tea leaves and improvement in the wood stove for different context. To learn more about NIF visit the National Innovation Foundation web site.

Highland County Felter Partners with Mongolian Small Business Incubator

Date:  Tue, 2012-03-06

MONTEREY & CHARLOTTESVILLE, VIRGINIA & ULAANBAATAR, MONGOLIA – March 6, 2012 – Lisa Jacenich has been producing textured art since 1997 and has become well known for her felting. Her work has shown up in private collections, fashion shows, and boutiques around the world. In 2011, Jacenich met up with Ken Dabkowski, M·CAM team member focusing on innovation literacy, which resulted in the connection between Jacenich and Tsend Enkhtuya through the Heritable Innovation Trust program in Mongolia (http://www.heritableinnovationtrust.org). This relationship has led to the development of three felting business incubators in the Uverkhangai Province in Mongolia. Through the implementation of mechanized felt processing, Jacenich and Enkhtuya hope to demonstrate how small businesses can work together to effect economic development. To read more about her project, see the attached news article (PDF).

To learn more about the history of this collaboration visit this link.

M·CAM, Inc. releases Patently Obvious® on the Ghost of Gordon Gekko: Transparency in Proprietary Advice

Date:  Fri, 2012-03-02

CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA – March 2, 2012 – M·CAM, Inc. released its Patently Obvious® report today on the Ghost of Gordon Gekko: Transparency in proprietary advice.

The FBI is investigating 120 alleged cases of insider trading. During our research into this week’s hot topic of who really owns social networking – Amazon, Facebook, or Yahoo! – we reported that a consulting company holding patents in the social networking / e-commerce space – patents that clearly impact the future business of Goldman’s darling, Facebook. In the knowledge economy, how do traders, consultants, and other professional services selectively use information gained from clients or partners without tripping over ethical and legal obstacles? While insider trading is being investigated for its unfair advantage and market consequence, who is looking at the much more expansive intellectual property question of who really owns and controls client information? We are compelled to take a closer look.

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 Transparency in proprietary advice can be found HERE.

Former M·CAM Board Member Lectured at The University of Virginia

Date:  Fri, 2012-03-02

CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA – March 2, 2012- On Wednesday, February 29, Moustapha Sarhank gave a wonderful lecture at The University of Virginia regarding the future of Egyptian business culture. He “shared his perspective on how the political revolution that ended the 30-year reign of former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak will affect business in Egypt and abroad”.

Sarhank is a college, friend, and former board member of M·CAM Inc.

To read Nate Delesline’s entire article on The Daily Progress: http://workitcville.com/2012/03/01/business-revolution-egyptian-horizon/

Dr. David Martin Discusses Yahoo Patent Portfolio on Bloomberg West

Date:  Tue, 2012-02-28

Dr. David Martin is to be interviewed today on Bloomberg West at 6:00pm EST. He will be discussing key patents in the Yahoo Portfolio.

We will be following up with a Patently Obvious Report regarding the patent porfolios of both companies.

To watch the Bloomberg interview online: http://www.bloomberg.com/video/87330674/

More information on Bloomberg West: http://www.bloomberg.com/tv/shows/bloomberg-west/

Chairman Dr. David Martin to Be Interviewed on Bloomberg West

M·CAM, Inc. releases Patently Obvious® on Amazon.com’s social networking patents

Date:  Mon, 2012-02-27

CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA – February 27, 2012 – M·CAM, Inc. released its Patently Obvious® report today on Amazon.com’s social networking patents

Amazon owns a growing set of social networking patents that describe key aspects of Facebook and legally predate Facebook by seven (7) years. Given Facebook’s strategy of back-filling its patent portfolio to retroactively protect itself (i.e. the company filed over 410 US patent applications in the past 18 months vs its 56 granted US patents), what do these Amazon patents mean to Facebook’s investors and its forecast $100 billion dollar valuation?

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 Amazon.com’s social networking patents can be found HERE.

M·CAM, Inc. releases Patently Obvious® on Intellectual Ventures v AT&T et al.

Date:  Fri, 2012-02-24

CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA – February 24, 2012 – M·CAM, Inc. released its Patently Obvious® report today on Intellectual Ventures v AT&T et al.

On February 16, 2012, Intellectual Ventures (“IV”) launched its seventh patent infringement suit, this time against AT&T, Sprint Nextel, and T-Mobile . In a familiar pattern, all but one of the patents in the suit were assigned to what appear to be IV “shell” companies before their most recent assignment to Intellectual Ventures by name. To IV’s chagrin, all three defendants control significant intellectual property estates in the technology space of the asserted patents; AT&T alone owns almost 500 properties that predate the patents being asserted against them.

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 Intellectual Ventures v AT&T et al. can be found HERE.

M·CAM, Inc. releases Patently Obvious® on Amazon.com’s order fulfillment patents

Date:  Fri, 2012-02-17

M·CAM, Inc. releases Patently Obvious® on Amazon.com’s order fulfillment patents

CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA – February 17, 2012 – M·CAM, Inc. released its Patently Obvious® report today on Amazon.com’s order fulfillment patents.

Last year, Amazon spent nearly $4.6 billion or 10% of its net sales on fulfillment. To offset those expenses, Amazon has been monetizing its fulfillment capabilities through arrangements with its marketplace sellers and leveraging its purchasing power with delivery companies. In 2011 alone, Amazon generated over $1.5 billion in shipping related revenue. Clearly, these fulfillment strategies are vital to Amazon as are, by default, the proprietary technologies that underpin them. Is Amazon’s intellectual property portfolio sufficient to defend these strategies?

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 Amazon.com’s order fulfillment patents can be found HERE.

M·CAM Inc Now On ITunes

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

M·CAM, Inc. releases Patently Obvious® on Facebook, Inc.

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.

M·CAM Inc. Introduces Podcasts and Report Archive

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

M·CAM Founder and Executive Chairman featured in UK Foresight Programme’s Discussion on International Dimensions of Climate Change

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.

M·CAM, Inc. releases Patently Obvious® on RealNetworks, Inc.

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.

M·CAM, Inc. releases Patently Obvious® on WiLAN v Research In Motion

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.

M·CAM, Inc. releases Patently Obvious® on Helferich Patent Licensing

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.

M·CAM, Inc. releases Patently Obvious® on Kodak v Apple and HTC

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.

Patent Buyer Beware – A Patently Obvious Follow Up

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.

M·CAM Unveils New Integral Trade Brand

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.