Evaluating Patent Investments

The Intellectual Property Prospector and the Beard Group Law and Business Publishers are hosting an audio briefing for identifying and evaluating patent investments on May 15, 2008.

David S. Ruder, Managing Director of Terrier IP Investments LLC and instructor for this briefing, will show you:

    * How patent assets are incorporated into investment strategies, including:
       - Equity investing (fundamental and event)
       - Opportunistic arbitrage (licensing and litigation)
       - Securitization deals
    * Current approaches to patent analytics
    * Today’s top trends and challenges in patent licensing and litigation
    * Investments in patent litigation
    * Impact of recent Supreme Court rulings and potential patent reforms
    * Insights for patent-rich companies seeking capital

David S. Ruder is Managing Director of Terrier IP Investments LLC, an investment advisory firm focused on intellectual property. His expertise is in building businesses based on intellectual property assets. David’s multi-disciplinary background includes experience as an intellectual property lawyer at Kirkland and Ellis, an investment banker with Dean Witter Reynolds, and one of the original team members of Ocean Tomo's mergers and acquisitions practice.

David is the author of the new book, “Strategies for Investing in Intellectual Property” published by the Beard Group and available as part of the special discounted Audio Conference/Book Learning Package. The book has been lauded as “an essential tool for understanding the range of IP investment strategies and how companies can unlock value and profit from them.”

Learn more and register here.